Oasis abuse

Tripod were one of my favourite things about Australia. Here they give Oasis all the respect they deserve. Download the MP3 here, and a bunch of others from here, under Recommended downloads.

Quiet drink in the where?

Me and my tight friends have a habit of drinking in Sam Smith's pubs, where you can buy a round for you and four friends and a bag of crisps with a tenner. A few of us were out last night in The Princess Louise, which was recently refurbished and has lots of little booths with tables in them, for the drinker looking for privacy and getting there good and early. We talked about many things, but one thing that keeps coming up is that we don't have a map with all the Sam Smith's pubs in Central London on it. So, being unemployed, I decided it was time to make one.

And it's here. Don't expect it to load very quickly though. And if you like using the map, please leave a comment for its author, inviting him on whatever evening you might be planning.

N.B. Vegetarians and vegans - most commercial beers, lagers in particular, are filtered through membranes extracted from fish. Samuel Smith's beers are all suitable for vegans.

Some recommended things

This weekend I went to Rock The House in Lincolnshire, a benefit concert for a friend of a friend who was injured around 12 months ago. There were a series of great performances from a variety of people, including the boy's father, who played a very emotional folk set. Later on in the evening, I had just a smidgen too much to drink, and fell over a log, splitting my forehead open and requiring 4 stitches and a tetanus jab. So my first recommendation is to not fall over logs.


Some other quick recommendations:

• Amp Live remixes of In Rainbows. Some great work snapping unusual time signatures back into 4/4 while keeping the original feel. And a great parody of the In Rainbows release on the top of the page.
• StumbleUpon - nothing to do with logs and alcohol. It just seems to be a good place to find things online to kill time. And for an example of that:
• Musicovery and Finetune - one or other might turn out to be as good as Pandora, which is no longer available in the UK.
• A Lego robot that solves Rubik's cubes.
• And more glibly, Proof that girls are evil - a simple mathematical demonstration.

Edit: Here's a photo of the resulting damage. Might be a few more later when I get hold of a better camera.