Commit 8e0d7e643c647b11a09fa74cf75bd78b828004c6
Remove obsolete links to Last.fm
Grey Nicholson committed on 7/2/2023, 8:36:00 PMParent: edcad9abc791573515ee66c713396226c340ce05
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| 42 | 42 … | <li><ins datetime="2007-11-08T14:15Z"><a href="http://thetwadsbollocks.blogspot.com/2007/11/it-was-so-nearly-called-kirn-kru.html" title="It was so nearly called a “kirn kru”">The latest El Twad HQ update</a> is set in August because that's when I started writing it (and the Fringe happens in August, so it kind of <em>has</em> to be).</ins></li> |
| 43 | 43 … | <li> |
| 44 | 44 … | <a href="/brothersorsisters">Brothers or Sisters</a> took me <strong>six-and-a-half weeks</strong> to complete; and this was <em>supposed</em> to be for a “stream-of-consciousness-type” blog. When I finally <em>did</em> publish this, <a href="http://www.postoftheweek.com/posts/159">it actually won an award</a>. So that was nice.</li> |
| 45 | 45 … | <li> |
| 46 | -<strong>That review of Manager by <a href="http://www.natjm.co.uk">Nat JM</a></strong> that she asked me to do a few months ago: I decided I was rubbish at reviewing individual songs, or that any comments I'd make would be superficial if I didn't consider them in the context of the rest of her work. So, I took it upon myself to review her entire back catalogue, which is only about a dozen songs but, unfortunately for me, is increasing at a rate of two a month. I know roughly what I'm going to say; I just need to produce the prose. (Hey, since her style of music is pretty unpolished I could easily justify similarly unpolished prose. And I reckon I shall.) Never before will so much of value have been said about Nat JM...I hope. <ins datetime="2007-11-08T20:43Z"><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2007/11/8/569538/" title="A great big mess of Nat JM">It exists! ...sort of.</a></ins> | |
| 46 … | +<strong>That review of Manager by <a href="http://www.natjm.co.uk">Nat JM</a></strong> that she asked me to do a few months ago: I decided I was rubbish at reviewing individual songs, or that any comments I'd make would be superficial if I didn't consider them in the context of the rest of her work. So, I took it upon myself to review her entire back catalogue, which is only about a dozen songs but, unfortunately for me, is increasing at a rate of two a month. I know roughly what I'm going to say; I just need to produce the prose. (Hey, since her style of music is pretty unpolished I could easily justify similarly unpolished prose. And I reckon I shall.) Never before will so much of value have been said about Nat JM...I hope. <ins datetime="2007-11-08T20:43Z">It exists! ...sort of.</ins> | |
| 47 | 47 … | </li> |
| 48 | 48 … | <li>The biggie: <strong>The Perfect World</strong>—a compendium of improvements to <em>the world</em> that Gardner and I've been working on for about <strong>three-and-a-half years</strong> now. That's a decent fraction of a <em>decade</em>. We came up with the idea towards the end of <em>sixth form</em>; we have since left university. When this is finished (and it's about 80% of the way there (only another year to wait, then)), <em>this will rock</em>. They'll invent a new category of Bafta just for us.</li> |
| 49 | 49 … | </ol> |
| 50 | 50 … | <hr> |
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| 17 | 17 … | title: "Walking Dataloss" |
| 18 | 18 … | description: "Too much thought." |
| 19 | 19 … | rel: related |
| 20 | 20 … | type: text/html |
| 21 | - - url: http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/ | |
| 22 | - title: "Last.fm Journal" | |
| 23 | - description: "More music." | |
| 24 | - rel: related | |
| 25 | - type: text/html | |
| 26 | 21 … | - url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregknicholson/ |
| 27 | 22 … | title: "Flickr Pictures" |
| 28 | 23 … | description: "Colours and shapes and stuff." |
| 29 | 24 … | rel: related |
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| 13 | 13 … | <p>Throughout, the notes the panpipes hit are often jazzily distorted or discordant, in fact the whole thing has a certain jazziness about it, complementing Camille's voice. Her vocals are half-whispered, half-moaned, increasingly so throughout the song. During the second verse, her “shack up”s (which, in <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Banbarra">Banbarra</a>'s original and <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/A+Certain+Ratio">A Certain Ratio</a>'s more famous cover, were a response to the lead vocal's call) descend to a whisper, but by the song's conclusion are emphatic.</p> |
| 14 | 14 … | <p>Add to this miscellaneous breaths and the occasional whispered “shack up” and the whole thing exudes sultry.</p> |
| 15 | 15 … | <p>It's not bossa nova. <strong>If you download one song this week, <a href="http://gkn.me.uk/thefridayfetchit/20061104.mp3">Shack Up</a>, baby.</strong> Stay tuned.</p> |
| 16 | 16 … | <hr> |
| 17 | -<p><ins>(<a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/11/4/259668/#comment888944">It later transpired that the singer was someone other than Camille.</a>)</ins></p> | |
| 17 … | +<p><ins>(It later transpired that the singer was someone other than Camille.)</ins></p> | |
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| 11 | 11 … | image: |
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| 13 | 13 … | height: 12rem |
| 14 | 14 … | |
| 15 | -links: | |
| 16 | - - url: http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/2007/05/8/417183/ | |
| 17 | - title: "on Volta" | |
| 18 | - rel: related | |
| 19 | - type: text/html | |
| 20 | - | |
| 21 | 15 … | --- |
| 22 | 16 … | |
| 23 | 17 … | <p> |
| 24 | -I've written <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/2007/05/8/417183/">some words about Volta</a>, Björk's new album, on <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/">my Last.fm journal</a>. A good number of them are quite orthogonal to what might be considered sensible. Yes, I'm aware that my interpretation of the album's narrative is entirely unique. | |
| 18 … | +I've written some words about Volta, Björk's new album, on my Last.fm journal. A good number of them are quite orthogonal to what might be considered sensible. Yes, I'm aware that my interpretation of the album's narrative is entirely unique. | |
| 25 | 19 … | </p> |
| 26 | 20 … | <hr> |
| 27 | 21 … | <p> |
| 28 | 22 … | <ins datetime="2022-05-13T21:27Z">For posterity, here are those words — since deleted from Last.fm — courtesy of archive.org.</ins> |
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| 10 | 10 … | <p>No job later, the Friday Fetch-it finds itself uprooted from its familiar, old, pink <i>(did I mention that Last.fm is pink?)</i> pot and planted in a new, bigger, less-pink pot... like a plant being replanted... by a gardener who represents a poor metaphor.</p> |
| 11 | 11 … | <p>Anyhow: so as not to forget its old life in Pinksville, the Friday Fetch-it made a list on itself <i>(because it's a blog, remember (this anthropomorphised-blog business gets confusing sometimes))</i> of all the old posts. And in time-honoured story-referencing-itself and effect-preceding-cause fashion, this is that very list:</p> |
| 12 | 12 … | <p>(This bit's the montage of quick shots of the characters emoting and/or in action-packed situations, overlaid with snippets of dialogue, that goes some way to explaining what happened last week when you forgot to set the video:)</p> |
| 13 | 13 … | <ol> |
| 14 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/04/14/115913/">the 2006-04-14 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which the Friday Fetch-it was introduced and I recommended <strong>Slits Grapevine</strong></li> | |
| 15 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/04/21/120970/">the 2006-04-21 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Area</strong></li> | |
| 16 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/04/29/126129/">the 2006-04-29 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>By The Water</strong></li> | |
| 17 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/05/5/130104/">the 2006-05-05 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>The Big Sky</strong></li> | |
| 18 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/05/12/134664/">the 2006-05-12 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Shoreline</strong></li> | |
| 19 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/05/19/138847/">the 2006-05-19 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Can't Hurry Love</strong></li> | |
| 20 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/05/27/143364/">the 2006-05-26 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Pioneers Remixed</strong></li> | |
| 21 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/06/6/150451/">the 2006-06-06 Tuesday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Love In The Making</strong></li> | |
| 22 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/06/10/153028/">the 2006-06-09 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Iwe</strong></li> | |
| 23 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/06/23/163469/">the 2006-06-23 Friday Fetch-its</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Set The Fire</strong> & <strong>La Rit</strong></li> | |
| 24 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/07/8/174592/">the 2006-07-07 Friday Fetch-its</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Confide In Me</strong> & <strong>Colours</strong></li> | |
| 25 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/07/15/180137/">the 2006-07-14 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Poison</strong></li> | |
| 26 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/10/15/246389/">the 2006-10-15 Sunday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Give Me Strength</strong></li> | |
| 27 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/10/20/250201/">the 2006-10-20 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Rush Hour</strong></li> | |
| 28 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/10/30/256054/">the 2006-10-29 Sunday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Memorize</strong></li> | |
| 29 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/11/4/259668/">the 2006-11-04 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Shack Up</strong></li> | |
| 30 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/11/11/264840/">the 2006-11-11 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Animator</strong></li> | |
| 31 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/11/18/269825/">the 2006-11-17 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Whirlwind</strong></li> | |
| 32 | -<li><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/GregKNicholson/journal/2006/11/25/275749/">the 2006-11-25 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>¡12!</strong></li> | |
| 14 … | +<li><a href="/weretwoofakind">the 2006-04-14 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which the Friday Fetch-it was introduced and I recommended <strong>Slits Grapevine</strong></li> | |
| 15 … | +<li><a href="/thedoorshavemetalplates">the 2006-04-21 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Area</strong></li> | |
| 16 … | +<li><a href="/illwakeupinfiftyyearsandfeelthesame">the 2006-04-29 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>By The Water</strong></li> | |
| 17 … | +<li><a href="/youneverunderstoodme">the 2006-05-05 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>The Big Sky</strong></li> | |
| 18 … | +<li><a href="/butyouvegottaknowtheirlies">the 2006-05-12 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Shoreline</strong></li> | |
| 19 … | +<li><a href="/hearmesaynow">the 2006-05-19 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Can't Hurry Love</strong></li> | |
| 20 … | +<li><a href="/allyouneedis">the 2006-05-26 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Pioneers Remixed</strong></li> | |
| 21 … | +<li><a href="/thereisliberationhere">the 2006-06-06 Tuesday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Love In The Making</strong></li> | |
| 22 … | +<li><a href="/changebeforeislipaway">the 2006-06-09 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Iwe</strong></li> | |
| 23 … | +<li><a href="/thereisnopeacethativefoundsofar">the 2006-06-23 Friday Fetch-its</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Set The Fire</strong> & <strong>La Rit</strong></li> | |
| 24 … | +<li><a href="/iviewfromafar">the 2006-07-07 Friday Fetch-its</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Confide In Me</strong> & <strong>Colours</strong></li> | |
| 25 … | +<li><a href="/upherdosage">the 2006-07-14 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Poison</strong></li> | |
| 26 … | +<li><a href="/somethingsdrawnmehereagain">the 2006-10-15 Sunday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Give Me Strength</strong></li> | |
| 27 … | +<li><a href="/inyoureyesthatcertainshine">the 2006-10-20 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Rush Hour</strong></li> | |
| 28 … | +<li><a href="/youthrewpenniesinandwished">the 2006-10-29 Sunday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Memorize</strong></li> | |
| 29 … | +<li><a href="/ibetyoufindlifehardtolivewith">the 2006-11-04 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Shack Up</strong></li> | |
| 30 … | +<li><a href="/promisesofpassionandadventure">the 2006-11-11 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Animator</strong></li> | |
| 31 … | +<li><a href="/knockingtheaeroplanesdownwithstones">the 2006-11-17 Friday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>Whirlwind</strong></li> | |
| 32 … | +<li><a href="/burningapathforustoshare">the 2006-11-25 Saturday Fetch-it</a>, in which I recommended <strong>¡12!</strong></li> | |
| 33 | 33 … | </ol> |
| 34 | 34 … | <p>(Cue the title sequence.)</p> |
| 35 … | +<p><ins datetime="2023-07-02T16:43Z">(Smash-cut to many years later, by which time the entire blog is collected in one place, and this whole thing makes no sense.)</ins></p> | |
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| 13 | 13 … | title: "the Friday Fetch-it" |
| 14 | 14 … | description: "in which interesting, obscure, underheard music is recommended" |
| 15 | 15 … | rel: related |
| 16 | 16 … | type: text/html |
| 17 | - - url: http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/ | |
| 18 | - title: "My Last.fm journal" | |
| 19 | - rel: related | |
| 20 | - type: text/html | |
| 21 | 17 … | |
| 22 | 18 … | --- |
| 23 | 19 … | |
| 24 | 20 … | <p> |
| 25 | -<span title="Strictly yesterday evening, but that counts as “tonight”">Tonight</span> I began <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/">a music recommendation blog over on Last.fm, cunningly entitled “the Friday Fetch-it”</a>. In the process I discovered that my hands think yesterday was “Firday”. | |
| 21 … | +<span title="Strictly yesterday evening, but that counts as “tonight”">Tonight</span> I began a music recommendation blog over on Last.fm, cunningly entitled “the Friday Fetch-it”. In the process I discovered that my hands think yesterday was “Firday”. | |
| 26 | 22 … | </p> |
| 27 | 23 … | <p> |
| 28 | 24 … | I also came up with the perfect slogan for Last.fm - “Stay tuned”. It works on multiple levels, as do all the best slogans, providing you define being “tuned” as the state of having tunes... which you should. |
| 29 | 25 … | </p> |
| 30 | 26 … | <p> |
| 31 | 27 … | Originally, I was planning to make a weekly post to <a href="http://www.thetwaddle.co.uk/forums">The Twaddle Forums</a>, primarily as a way to liven the place up a bit, but then decided to turn it into a full-blown blog. I briefly considered using <a href="http://blogger.com">Blogger</a> until I realised that Last.fm's music journal is designed for exactly this. |
| 32 | 28 … | </p> |
| 33 | 29 … | <p> |
| 34 | -So, every Friday evening from now on, I'll be writing stuff on <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/gregknicholson/journal/">my Last.fm journal</a>. | |
| 30 … | +So, every Friday evening from now on, I'll be writing stuff on my Last.fm journal. | |
| 35 | 31 … | </p> |
| 36 | 32 … | <p> |
| 37 | -<ins datetime="2007-09-01T06:40Z">Since then, <a href="/thefridayfetchit">the Friday Fetch-it</a> has moved to Blogger and Roundtable has moved to Thursdays; I still do a Roundtable round-up on my Last.fm journal each week.</ins> | |
| 33 … | +<ins datetime="2007-09-01T06:40Z">Since then, the Friday Fetch-it has moved to Blogger and Roundtable has moved to Thursdays; I still do a Roundtable round-up on my Last.fm journal each week.</ins> | |
| 38 | 34 … | </p> |
| 35 … | +<p> | |
| 36 … | +<ins datetime="2023-07-02T16:26Z">Since then, <a href="/thefridayfetchit">the Friday Fetch-it</a> has moved into this site.</ins> | |
| 37 … | +</p> | |
| 39 | 38 … | |
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