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@AlexNolan Free iPhone 4 GiveAway, Serious! Totally Free, Hurry! Get one Now http://bit.ly/cbkFIR
– Valorie Doubek (ValorieDoubek29) http://twitter.com/ValorieDoubek29/status/26774055366
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Author: Alex
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links for 2010-10-07
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RT @FACT_Liverpool: Biennial: The Innovasion is coming!! http://bit.ly/aa6oDr >> If this is anything like The Accomplice it'll be AMAZING
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@AlexNolan it does not mean PJs that is lounge wear. See http://www.dresscodeguide.com/ for full info. Have you not heard of google???
– Claire Sutton (clairelsutton) http://twitter.com/clairelsutton/status/26649928046
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links for 2010-10-06
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RT @DollandTheKicks: Just arrived at Masque in Liverpool! A kind of home town gig for us http://twitpic.com/2v5eil >> go see them everyone!
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RT @smcliv: Presenting October Social Media Cafe Liverpool… The Art One. Wed 27 Oct at @biennial Visitors Centre. More details: http:/ …
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RT @LivEchonews: Martin Broughton interview in full – new erafor Liverpool FC as £200m debt wiped out http://ht.ly/2PgMP #lfc
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My So-called Life (October 5th)
October 5th –
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Lawks! In under 2 weeks I’ll be an ex-post-grad and no longer able to claim that the events of my life are due to being institutionalised.
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http://tarvu.com – it’s so easy to join! #stupidscientology
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Jesus who put a softly spoken archbishop in my politics? Must remove with a spoon before it confuses Christianity with morality. #newsnight
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RT @LivEchonews: Where the axe will fall on Merseyside Police departments http://bit.ly/cT7sYN
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Had no idea that choosing an icon set for an intranet was such a difficult task
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So apparently a colleague has acquired a Thai mail-order bride. That’s weird isn’t it? My sense of normality is off today, hard to tell.
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Published links for 2010-09-29.
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My key users are being trained for a new intranet today. Am actually slightly nervous – feels like waiting for exam results to come through!
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Whoever came up with the idea of removing progress bars from Firefox for 4.0 is an idiot.
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RT @Getintothis: Congrats to @AlexNolan for winning the Evol/Getintothis Golden Ticket – 10 free gigs comin yr way starting tonite >> OMG!
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Shared 2 links.
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Checked in at O2 Academy
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Do Twitter occasionally have a mass spam-cull or have I just offended a lot of people recently?
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RT @alaindebotton: Married people are always happy to see others getting married: 2 less souls to envy for the ambiguous joys of guiltle …
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With news of an Apple TV Jailbreak on the way, Airplay looking impressive and 8 gig of storage, it’s now looking like a good XBMC competitor
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RT @ElevatorStudios: Sound of Guns play O2 Academy Liverpool tonight >> Looking forward to it
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Published 7 posts.
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Blogging my ‘Golden Ticket’ O2 gigs. Musically, I am very hard to please! Here’s last night’s: Everything Everything http://bit.ly/9lQFXF
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Checked in at bier keller
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Checked in at Ship and Mitre
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Checked in at Dr Duncans
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Checked in at The Fly In The Loaf
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Checked in at O2 Academy
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Sound of Guns singer just suggested to the crowd that the number of albums sold < number of people in audience. Because you’re so average?
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Are busses considered police duristriction free? I’m pretty high right now from passive ‘smoking’, and this isn’t the first time.
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Am thinking of doing the EarlySundays biennial tour tomorrow 10.30 – 11.30, any twitter folk like to join me? http://j.mp/bdPyRJ
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Published Music Review: Sound of Guns + Little Comets.
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Sound of Guns & Little Comets at the O2, bit brief cos I have a lot on today http://bit.ly/9oTZD6
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Checked in at Bold Street Coffee
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Checked in at The Egg Cafe
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Shared 3 links.
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Checked in at walker art gallery
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Checked in at A Foundation
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Checked in at Leaf Tea Shop
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Checked in at Tesco Allerton Road
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Oh wow, I got my first troll comment today! I feel so honoured!
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Listened to 5 songs.
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Watching Omen 2. That Antichrist guy is a bit of a prick isn’t he? But what’s all this Born of a Jackal nonsense, how would that even work?
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Published links for 2010-10-02.
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Checked in at Bold Street Coffee
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Checked in at Biennial Visitor Centre
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Checked in at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
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Checked in at Costa Coffee (Liverpool One)
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So glad I didn’t do the Liverpool 10k this morning in that weather. Being a slave to exam timetables has it’s advantages after all.
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RT @MarinasDiamonds: Lenert & Sandar. How to Melt a rabbit. http://vimeo.com/5550600#embed >> one for you @rosiebunny
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Shared Chocolate Bunny on Vimeo.
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My sympathies are with you #lfc fans this evening, you deserve better football from your side for the commitment you’ve shown them
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Eegads! Damien Thorn, born of the jackal, is back again tonight in part 3, looking suspiciously like Sam Neill! PS I am not the father.
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The implied predestination of these Omen films is frustrating, like Final Destination. If he decides he wants you dead, that’s your lot up!
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Published 2 posts.
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Checked in at Caffe Nero
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Checked in at Cosmopolitan Housing Group
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Supersleuth Alex just discovered a database table which had accidentally grown to 36 million rows, instead of, you know, 10,000. Oops!
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And now a second table in a different database, accidentally left auditing on since 2007, currently 67.6 million rows, 25 gig. Oops again!
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Wow, that ‘Him & Her’ show just took a deliciously dark turn, some brilliantly observed moments in there
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Supportguys vs Alex "Send a screenshot". "But you’ve just agreed you know exactly what I mean". "Yeah but you have to send a screenshot".
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links for 2010-10-03
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RT @MarinasDiamonds: Lenert & Sandar. How to Melt a rabbit. http://vimeo.com/5550600#embed >> one for you @rosiebunny
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links for 2010-10-03
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RT @MarinasDiamonds: Lenert & Sandar. How to Melt a rabbit. http://vimeo.com/5550600#embed >> one for you @rosiebunny
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links for 2010-10-02
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Coverage of Liverpool Biennial 2010
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Sound of Guns & Little Comets at the O2, bit brief cos I have a lot on today http://bit.ly/9oTZD6
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I came to this gig having not heard Sound of Guns before but friends suggested they might be decent.
It was a fairly late start – Little Comets came on at 9 and played a surprisingly minimalistic sounding set, very little use of instruments at all to be honest. Their instantly forgettable indie drawl was a taste of what was to come, because Sound of Guns also failed to make an impression on me with regards to their music.
That’s not to say they don’t have a presence. They have floppy hair, an energetic stage performance and a decent vocalist. In fact I think I noticed that their singer doesn’t play anything – quite unusual in all male bands these days.
But what they have in style they lack in substance – they failed to hold my interest even into the second song, and I wonder if this is due in part to a lack of ambition with the guitar sound. It’s a shame because I wanted to like this band. I’m slightly embarrassed to say I didn’t stay for the encore.
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First of the O2 Academy ‘Golden Ticket’ gigs (thanks again to GetIntoThis) was Everything Everything, a 4 piece band who are receiving quite a bit of attention at the moment (they’re on Jules Holland tonight if you’re stopping in).
The venue pretty much sold out, with both casual patrons & fanbois alike prepared to come out on a fairly dreary evening weather-wise. Shame for everyone then that EE got off to a slow start, with a track interesting for its guitar riffs but light on substance or vocals.
They then stumbled along for about 30 more agonizing minutes of forgettable emo warbling, a cross between Radiohead and any generic 80s mods you’d like to dredge up. The expressions on each of the band members faces (probably faked in order to make it seem like what they do is artistic, rather than, erm, playing guitar) made me wonder if they were all taking the same constipated dump – sometimes pain, sometimes concentration, and finally elation & relief, but always coordinated. The songs themselves were over-long, really quite hard work to listen to, and a little nihilistic, sometimes trailing in and out mid…
That said, something magical happened about 40 minutes in, when we were treated to a final 3 tracks plus an encore of much higher quality than what had gone before. The wishy-washy fragile flower look gave way to something more rocky, with 3 vocals rather than 1, and an injection of fun into the proceedings. By the time they left the stage, the lead singer’s mumbled apology for it being the first date in their tour no longer seemed necessary.
Everything Everything clearly have some ardent fans who seem frankly much more into the songs than the band deserve (always makes me laugh when I see that sort of person, they clearly need to go to some better gigs and get a sense of perspective!). They also have some good tracks, so I’d expect their TV appearance this evening to go down pretty well, but they really need to improve their consistency & self belief if they want the likes of me to take them seriously.
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Well actually it appears that you get a golden ticket to see 10 gigs at the O2 academy. I entered a competition on the GetIntoThis website and won so have now got more gigs to go to than I really have time for, but I guess I might as well try!
Will do a quick review of each gig and link back here later.