Thursday, 27 January 2011

FIT

In attempt to find motivational tracks for the gym, I remembered this track from ages ago.

Love the song, love the video.

Can't decide which is the best thing about it- weird glowing bug dancers, flashy (literally flashy) car, plastic cup castle (always the simple things for me), tron/ casino royal title type graphic smashes or puppets.

But there's more to this story. Before I could find that vid (and having only been able to remember the shutterbug part) I downloaded song of same name from this album.


I then spent 15 minutes on the rowing machine, listening over and over, smirking at the sheer filth of it, whilst the meat popsicles walked by.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Duck egg blue

Fresh air, funny walks and duck egg pretty pic (I say that in the broadest sense. It's a rather unspectacular  pic in reality, but I don't know, there's something I quite liked about them. Maybe it's cos they made for rather scrummy dippy eggs after a very long weekend in Leeds- 5am start Saturday, 4am finish Sunday and no return till near 9pm Sunday).

So as I was saying duck egg pretty pic and music to accompany those things, mentioned first, from today.



Monday, 24 January 2011

Resourceful is the word

Nowadays, its all about how much you can squeeze out of or cram into one product. Resorceful is the attitude, multipurpose the motivation. 


This has lead to a great many revelations for me. Examples? I can think of a few. There's the all oldies but goldies: old toothbrushes are not destined for the dump, but become mega utensils for cleaning bicycles or for a more domestic- but no less satisfying- application the mint at debunking grime from the filler between your shower room tiles. Worn but not-too-dirty socks make excellent dusters. And any card board lying around your car is as good a scraper when the ice sets in.

A personal favourite of mine is one of my Dad's. Its genesis lies in said father's utter devotion to recycling. This has meant that plastic inner cereal packets are not rubbish but instead enjoy a second life as sandwich bags. It does make for rather dusty sandwiches, but I can live with this discomfiture knowing I've given one plastic bag a new lease of life and resisted unnecessary use of another.

I think though, that this may overtake any of these examples as being the most wonderful multipurpose approach to what is- typically- a relatively socially unacceptable problem. 

Nice.