1809 - Edward Jordan hanged for piracy in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His body was tarred and hung from a gibbet as a warning to others.
1887 - Boris Karloff was born.
1889 - the jukebox made its debut in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1936 - first edition of LIFE magazine is published.
1963 - first broadcast of Dr. Who.
1963 - Linden Johnson takes over position of US President.
1985 - EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal Organization resulting in the deaths of 60 people.
1990 - Roald Dahl dies.
1996 - Ethiopian Airlines flight 961 crashes into the sea after being hijacked and running out of fuel. Over 100 people die.
2003 - Shevardnadze resigns as president of Georgia.
2006 - Alexander Litvinenko dies of radiation poisoning.
I signed up for Blip a while ago and I’m slowly adding tracks to my playlist.
It’s pretty much like a Twitter for songs, but I’m not sure how the legality of it works. After all Muxtape provided a similar service, but was taken down a few months ago and is now planning on relaunching as a service exclusively for bands.
I like the search functionality in Blip, which is pretty damn robust and allows you to find stuff you’ve never heard, stuff you’ve forgotten about or stuff you didn’t even know existed. Anyway, here’s my playlist so far. 25 rather mellow(ish) tracks, all just A Little Bit…
25. Milosh - Your Taste
24. The postal Service - The District Sleeps Tonight
23. Peter Murphy - Your Face
22. Slowdive - Like Up
21. Kate Bush - Army Dreamers
20. Depeche Mode - A Pain That I’m Used To (Goldfrapp Remix)
19. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Song For Jesse
18. Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak
17. The Delgados - Coming in from the Cold
16. French Kicks - England Just Will Not Let You Recover
15. Air France - No Way Down
14. Joy Division vs Bauhaus - Love Will Tear You Apart
13. Julian Cope - Head Hang Low
12. Sugarcubes - Birthday (Justin Robertson Remix)
11. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
10. Spiritualized - Run (single version)
9. Chemical Brothers with Mazzy Star - Asleep
8. Camouflage - That Smiling Face
7. Snow Patrol(feat. Martha Wainwright) - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
6. The Go! Team - the icestorm
5. Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
4. The Presets - This Boy’s In Love (Life Like Remix)
3. Our Broken Garden - Watermark
2. Tori Amos - Not David Bowie
1. Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy (Architecture In Helsinki remix)
Kate Bush said that ‘Hounds of Love’ was inspired by a movie called ‘Curse of the Demon’
(ITS IN THE TREES, IT’S COMING!!)
Here’s a youtube mashup of the original vid, the movie, a live performance and some other stuff.
Don’t let milk spoil your morning.
I don’t know what is more disturbing about this. The really bad voiceover at the end or the ‘bearded’ milk carton.
Clicky Link
Anyone around here this morning may notice some changes on the blog (unless you are using RSS feeds - in which case carry on.) Messing about with css at the moment. Blogsome only has a certain amount of ‘themes’ you can use although you can edit them somewhat which is good.
I’ll try to keep the tinkering to a minimum anyway.
TV
- Looks like Pushing Daisies has been cancelled. TVgasm reports ABC has decided not to produce anymore eps of the series.
- David Tennant is leaving Dr. Who soon. Digital Spy gives its suggestions for the 11th Doctor. I could see Chiwetel Ejiofor, but Dexter Fletcher? Really?
- LOST is back on US stations on January 21st. Which means we’ll probably get it on Network 2 the week after.
- Wired has word that part 2 of season 4 of BSG will be streamed on scifi.com on April 4 and then broadcast that night.
- And finally in the Whedonverse ‘Dollhouse’ is set to premiere on Fox on Feb 13. Why does Joss always go with Fox? They seem to have a pretty toxic relationship.
Movies
- New (bootlegged) trailer for JJ Abrams ‘Star Trek ‘ is up here. Lets hope he’s left the screaming cellos at home for this one.
- First (proper) trailer for Watchmen now on Wired.
- Neil Gaiman’s ‘Coraline‘ is due for Feb 2009.
To all Americans.
I may even reconsider my boycott of Ever Travelling to America again due to this.
