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Trying out the Gif Shop app
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My favourite album so far this year
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Mrs Doyle Ringtone
I love this anecdote from the always readable David Hepworth’s Blog by David Hepworth on 7/7/11
We were asked to choose one favourite magazine and, in five minutes, explain why. I chose The New Yorker. There’s always a conscious and a sub-conscious reason for liking a magazine. My conscious reason for liking the New Yorker is for its range of compelling stories. My sub-conscious reason is to do with getting older.
For most of your life the world is a frustrating place because it appears to be run by people older than you are. Then one morning you wake up and find that it’s a frustrating place because it’s run by people younger than you are. When you reach this stage The New Yorker suddenly has a really strong pull on you. Suddenly it functions as a counter-balance to what seems like the increasing hysteria of everyday life.
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Unexpectedly wonderful speech
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Cock au van
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Hurray for Longreads and Instapaper
If you’re not familiar with http://longreads.com/, then I recommend
you to try it. It’s full of unexpected, mostly interesting articles.
and iPhone app
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A minute’s noise for John
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wedding songs
When we got married last year, the choice of music at the ceremony was of course important to us. We were allowed three songs, and this is what we chose:
1. Played as people were walking in
John Lennon urges everyone to step this way and it’s the start to an incredible opening. It got the choice because we knew that marriage was indeed going to be magical and mysterious. The alternative was Talking Heads’ Road to Nowhere. I thought people might not get that as it appears to be negative, but I find it liberating and quite spritual.
2. Played as we signed the wedding register
This felt like our song during the first few months of going out. Not only is it an astonishing tune, it’s also uplifting and expressed what we were feeling
And I feel like
Some bird of paradise
My bad fortune slipping away
And I feel the
Innocence of a child
Everybody’s got something good to sayThings I once thought
Unbelievable
In my life
Have all taken place
3. As people leave after the ceremony
Sally was brought up in Wales, so this bilingual song felt appropriate. However, Gorky’s are one of my very favourite bands, and as it breaks into Welsh, the lyrics are again beautiful and touching
Mae’n bwrw glaw
So dal fy llaw
Ond mae’r gaeaf mor hir
Mae’n cymryd gormod or tirIt’s raining
So hold my hand
But the winter’s so long
It takes too much of the land
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Boomdog
Messing around with editing video to beats. Not quite there, but fun to do
Audio: Volume All Star “Swiss timing’s boomkit, vol.1”
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Psycho Fiction
I always thought this scene in Pulp Fiction was a nod to Psycho, so I made this video.
Psycho Fiction from carl lyons on Vimeo.
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Dude by Dudewest
Dude by Dudewest from carl lyons on Vimeo.
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Really wannabe in Peckham
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Carrot better than stick
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Goodbye old faithfuls II
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Goodbye faithful t-shirts
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Guardian leaving do video 1999
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