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		<title>If it&#8217;s the last thing we ever do</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/03/if-its-the-last-thing-we-ever-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Space were a wonderfully eccentric band, according to Wikipedia they were once described as &#8220;Black Grape gone flamenco and sung by a man who can&#8217;t decide between cartoon Mexican, Ray Davies and Cypress Hill&#8221;. Despite this they were fairly successful, having a few big hits in the 90s, but sadly they seem to be largely [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Space were a wonderfully eccentric band, according to Wikipedia they were once described as &#8220;Black Grape gone flamenco and sung by a man who can&#8217;t decide between cartoon Mexican, Ray Davies and Cypress Hill&#8221;. Despite this they were fairly successful, having a few big hits in the 90s, but sadly they seem to be largely forgotten these days. This cover definitely deserves to be remembered.<br />
<a href='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Space-We-Gotta-Get-Out-Of-This-Place.mp3'>Space &#8211; We Gotta Get Out Of This Place</a></p>
<p>I just found <a href="http://twitter.com/mr_hopkinson">@mr_hopkinson</a> on Twitter, which reminded me of his excellent singing computer. Here it is, performing &#8220;Fool&#8217;s Gold&#8221;, by The Stone Roses.<br />
<a href='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Mr-Hopkinsons-Computer-Fools-Gold.mp3'>Mr Hopkinson&#8217;s Computer &#8211; Fool&#8217;s Gold</a><br />
There&#8217;s more at <a href="http://www.computersings.com/">http://www.computersings.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Les Misérables &#8211; The Game</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/03/les-miserables-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has done it again.

&#8220;Robojean&#8221; had me almost in tears  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Japan has done it again.<br />
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&#8220;Robojean&#8221; had me almost in tears <img src='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>More than meets the eye</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/03/more-than-meets-the-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Now all you sucker DJs who think you&#8217;re fly</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/03/now-all-you-sucker-djs-who-think-youre-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of great covers by modern rock groups today. First &#8220;Word Up!&#8221;, one of the funkiest songs around. The original came out in 1986, but still sounds incredibly fresh today. Korn gave it their own touch on their Greatest Hits: Volume 1.
Korn &#8211; Word Up!
Next is Placebo&#8217;s great cover of &#8220;Daddy Cool&#8221; by Boney [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of great covers by modern rock groups today. First &#8220;Word Up!&#8221;, one of the funkiest songs around. The original came out in 1986, but still sounds incredibly fresh today. Korn gave it their own touch on their <em>Greatest Hits: Volume 1</em>.<br />
<a href='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Korn-Word-Up.mp3'>Korn &#8211; Word Up!</a></p>
<p>Next is Placebo&#8217;s great cover of &#8220;Daddy Cool&#8221; by Boney M. This is from the special edition of <em>Sleeping With Ghosts</em>, which came with a whole bonus disc of Placebo cover versions.<br />
<a href='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Daddy-Cool-Placebo.mp3'>Placebo &#8211; Daddy Cool</a></p>
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		<title>SCIENCE!</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/02/science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, a collection edited by Richard Dawkins. Though I&#8217;m not too keen on his militant atheism, for once he manages to rein it in and concentrate on the excellent science writing. The extracts selected are all great choices; some from works I&#8217;ve read previously, some I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just finished reading <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0199216819?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewubblog-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=19450&#038;creativeASIN=0199216819">The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing</a>, a collection edited by Richard Dawkins. Though I&#8217;m not too keen on his militant atheism, for once he manages to rein it in and concentrate on the excellent science writing. The extracts selected are all great choices; some from works I&#8217;ve read previously, some I wanted to read, and some I wasn&#8217;t aware of. The brief comments by Dawkins introducing each are also insightful, and help give valuable context. Best of all it was only £6, bargain!</p>
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		<title>When I was&#8230; a young boy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/02/when-i-was-a-young-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is a cover I have been trying to track down ever since I heard about it. Cherry Ghost are one of my favourite bands and I can&#8217;t wait for their new album. This was part of BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Live Lounge, where bands often do interesting covers. There&#8217;s even a few official compilation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now this is a cover I have been trying to track down ever since I heard about it. Cherry Ghost are one of my favourite bands and I can&#8217;t wait for their new album. This was part of BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Live Lounge, where bands often do interesting covers. There&#8217;s even a few official compilation albums of them, but this doesn&#8217;t appear on any of them, which is a pity.</p>
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		<title>Is your bed made? Is your sweater on?</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/01/is-your-bed-made-is-your-sweater-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for another in my irregular series of cover version posts. This time featuring a song that&#8217;s very close to my heart: &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; by Vampire Weekend.
I bought Vampire Weekend&#8217;s album for maybe the most uncool reason possible: it was recommended on Countdown. Yes, the daytime game show, which I was watching [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And now for another in my irregular series of cover version posts. This time featuring a song that&#8217;s very close to my heart: &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; by Vampire Weekend.</p>
<p>I bought Vampire Weekend&#8217;s album for maybe the most uncool reason possible: it was recommended on <em>Countdown</em>. Yes, the daytime game show, which I was watching at my grandparents&#8217;.</p>
<p>Actually that&#8217;s not strictly true. I had heard it before when a friend played it to me, and I absolutely loved it. But then much alcohol was consumed and I entirely forgot about this wonderful album. So a few months later when Jeff Stelling out of the blue mentioned it on <em>Countdown</em>, it came back to me. I grabbed it as soon as possible. It was only then I realised that one of their tracks (&#8220;A-Punk&#8221;) was the theme to the excellent <em>Inbetweeners</em>.</p>
<p>I genuinely think every track on the album is great, and it&#8217;s not very often I feel that way. But &#8220;Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; is a particular favourite, partly because the lyrics remind me of a certain girl who I was very close to. That all ended quite bitterly, but of the songs reminding me of her, this one somehow always makes me feel positive. And of course it&#8217;s great musically too.</p>
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<li>The first cover is a slightly unusual choice, since it ditches the lyrics I love so much entirely. Vampire Weekend have obviously been greatly inspired by African and African-influenced music, and this takes that one step further by replacing the lyrics with African chanting. I&#8217;m not sure if this can strictly be called a cover version, but it is absolutely great and extremely cheerful.<br />
The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya &#038; Radioclit) &#8211; Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa:<br />
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<li>And the second is unusual too, since it is by someone specifically mentioned in the song. Yes, the venerable Peter Gabriel, along with Hot Chip: <a href='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Peter-Gabriel-Hot-Chip-Cape-Cod-Kwassa-Kwassa-Vampire-Weekend.mp3'>Peter Gabriel &#038; Hot Chip &#8211; Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend)</a>
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		<title>Lol, maths</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/01/lol-maths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologise for the technical quality of this picture. It was made in Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Graffiti&#8221; application, using my laptop&#8217;s useless touchpad. Even so, it&#8217;s apparently the second most popular picture I&#8217;ve ever posted on b3ta. Hooray for maths jokes! 

Also from the maths jokes compo:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I apologise for the technical quality of this picture. It was made in Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Graffiti&#8221; application, using my laptop&#8217;s useless touchpad. Even so, it&#8217;s apparently the second most popular picture I&#8217;ve ever posted on b3ta. Hooray for maths jokes! <img src='http://www.astick.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
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<p>Also from the maths jokes compo:<br />
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		<title>Ghost Hunting With X</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/01/ghost-hunting-with-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst flicking through the TV schedules late at night, ITV2 threw out one of the most amazing titles I&#8217;ve ever seen. &#8220;Ghost Hunting With The Happy Mondays&#8221;
Ghost Hunting. With The Happy Mondays.
So I was just about to post this, and maybe some of the other ridiculous titles I&#8217;ve seen recently (e.g. &#8220;Pants Off Dance Off&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whilst flicking through the TV schedules late at night, ITV2 threw out one of the most amazing titles I&#8217;ve ever seen. &#8220;Ghost Hunting With The Happy Mondays&#8221;</p>
<p>Ghost Hunting. With The Happy Mondays.</p>
<p>So I was just about to post this, and maybe some of the other ridiculous titles I&#8217;ve seen recently (e.g. &#8220;Pants Off Dance Off&#8221;, &#8220;100 Men Own My Breasts&#8221;). I decided to google the ghost hunting show first, and it turns out that &#8220;Ghost Hunting With X&#8221; is something of a phenomenon. Where X = &#8220;Girls Aloud&#8221;, &#8220;McFly&#8221;, &#8220;Coronation Street&#8221;, &#8220;Radio 1&#8243;, &#8220;Louis Walsh and Boyzone&#8221;, and strangest of all: &#8220;The Dingles&#8221; o_O</p>
<blockquote><p>In this episode Yvette takes Lucy Pargeter (Chastity Dingle), Verity Rushworth (Donna Windsor-Dingle), Hayley Tamaddon (Delilah Dingle), Joseph Gilgun (Eli Dingle) and Mark Charnock (Marlon Dingle), to three of the reputedley most haunted locations in York, including the National Railway Museum.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Only four of the five members of Girls Aloud took part in the pilot episode of the show, which was set in North Wales. Nadine Coyle opted out of the show because she was too scared.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunting_With...">Wikipedia</a></p>
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		<title>Two thousand and ten</title>
		<link>http://www.astick.net/blog/2010/01/two-thousand-and-ten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy new year! I was getting tired of the radiance-based theme here, so switched to the aptly titled &#8220;veryplaintxt&#8221;. This is a lot tidier and also removes the need for me to co-ordinate colours, something I&#8217;m really hopeless at. I might make some customisations of my own at some point, and that should be easier [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy new year! I was getting tired of the radiance-based theme here, so switched to the aptly titled &#8220;veryplaintxt&#8221;. This is a lot tidier and also removes the need for me to co-ordinate colours, something I&#8217;m really hopeless at. I might make some customisations of my own at some point, and that should be easier as this theme is very nicely coded. I&#8217;m quite happy with how my <a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:The_wub">Wikinews user page</a> is turning out, so will probably use some ideas from there.</p>
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