iPod Recently Played for the last week

Illegal Attacks - Ian Brown
If You Phone - Lauren Laverne
Don't Call Me Baby - Madison Avenue
Bedhead - Sleeper
Womanizer - Britney Spears
Propane Nightmares - Pendulum
Another Way To Die - Jack White & Alicia Keys
Love Me Or Hate Me - Lady Sovereign
Now 71 (Album)
Day & Age - The Killers (Album)
Swagga Like Us - Jay-Z & T.I. feat Kanye West & Lil Wayne
Misery Business (Single Version) - Paramore
The Artist In The Ambulance - Thrice
Adolescent Sex - Japan
We Are Your Friends (Radio Edit) - Justice Vs Simian
Lights & Music - Cut Copy
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Free Things For Poor People - Infadels
Young Love - Mystery Jets feat Laura Marling
Standing Next To Me - The Last Shadow Puppets
Shine On - The Kooks
Beggin' (Pilooski Re-Edit) - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked (Single Mix) - Ida Maria
Watch Me Fall Apart - Hard-Fi
Elevator - Flo Rida feat Timbaland
LOL - Little Jackie
Under The Thumb - Amy Studt
Sam's Town - The Killers (Album)
Street Symphony - Monica
Debbie Loves Joey - Helen Love
What Up Man - The Cool Kids
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now - Mitch Benn & The Distractions
Dancing With Myself - Nouvelle Vague
Baby One More Time - Travis
I'd Like It Like That - Pete C. Rodriguez
I Like It Like That (Aaron Jerome Remix) - Pete Rodriguez
Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
Stand Up - Flobots
So Sick - Ne-Yo
Hate That I Love You - Rihanna
Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright
21st Century Girls (Acoustic) - 21st Century Girls
Masochrist - My Ruin
My Son Mystic - Gay Dad
For The Dead - Gene
Push It (Real Good) - Harry
Intuition (Ford's Radio Mix) - Jewel
Pretend We're Dead - L7
For Want Of - Rites Of Spring
Can't Stand Losing You - Feeder
Motown Junk - Manic Street Preachers
Valley - Harry
Flying Without Wings - Soulwax
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics
And Dream Of Sheep - Kate Bush
Digital Hardcore - Atari Teenage Riot
Spending My Time - Roxette
Mi Gente (Louie Vega Elements Of Life Remix) - Hector Lavoe
Do You Know (Linslee Remix) - Michelle Gayle
Drag - Hole
In The Death Car - Iggy Pop
The Trouble With Me - Black Legend
I'm Comin' Down - Primal Scream
A Nanny In Manhattan - Lilys
Dream Of The Hollow Fishes - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman
Mary Mary (Stigmatic Mix) - Chumbawamba
Wuthering Heights (New Vocal) - Kate Bush
Madam Your Carriage Awaits - Bentley Rhythm Ace
You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
A Doodle New - Mokita
A New Beginning - Good Charlotte
The Great Mystery - Steve Poltz
The Minstrel Boy (Instrumental) - The Corrs
Born Slippy (Nuxx Edit) - Underworld
£4 - These New Puritans
Mercury (Herve Is In Disarray Remix) - Bloc Party
Postcards (Rewritten Mix) - Faithless
Fever (Live Acoustic) - Starsailor
Handlebars (UK Radio Edit) - Flobots
I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers - Fall Out Boy
The Anchor Song - Bjork
Desert Song - Exploding Thumbs
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne
You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers
Loaded (Terry Farley Remix) - Primal Scream
More And More - Captain Hollywood Project
I Want You To Want Me - Letters To Cleo
Distant Fingers (Demo) - Patti Smith
Soguni Coun - Madou Djembe
Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix) - Sneaker Pimps
Girls - Sugababes
It Just Won't Do - Tim Deluxe feat Sam Obernik
Simple Kind Of Life - No Doubt
London Calling - The Clash
A Batman Overture - Elliot Goldenthal
I've Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
Whipping Tree - The Dandy Warhols
Take A Walk (Youngsters Bass Remix) - Bolz Bolz
Lush Life - Sugababes
Leaving On A Jet Plane - Chantal Kreviazuk
Heart Of Glass - Blondie
Navigate-Colours - These New Puritans
Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle
A Quai - Yann Tiersen
Rez - Underworld
Time Is A Healer - Caroldene
Every Guy - Take That
Soul Love - David Bowie

iPod Recently Played for the last week

Lea - Louise Attaque
Tu dis rien - Louise Attaque
Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
Over My Shoulder - Mike & The Mechanics
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - Bon Jovi
Christmas Everyday - Holy Ghost Revival
Natural Blues - Moby
Snow Day - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Finest Worksong (Other Mix) - R.E.M.
Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie
Look Into My Eyes - Bone Thugs N Harmony
The Backdoor Payoff - Manchild
L'Union du son - Alliance Ethnik
The Big Sky - Kate Bush
Lament - Evita Original Soundtrack
Perfect Game - Thompson Twins
Satellite Of Love - Lou Reed
Caramel - Suzanne Vega
Rock'n'roll Star - Saez
Kung-Fu (Original 187 Mix) - 187 Lockdown
Ready Or Not - Manbreak
All I Have To Give - Backstreet Boys
Master And Servant - Depeche Mode
You Love Us - Manic Street Preachers
Yeah! New York - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Spark - Tori Amos
Starbirth In The Triffid Nebula - Rachel Stamp
Paths That Cross - Patti Smith
Heart-Shaped Box (LP Version) - Nirvana
Peek-A-Boo - Daphne & Celeste
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Me In Honey - R.E.M.
I Love Your Sushi - Daphne & Celeste
I Got Nothin' - Moisture
Hey Baby (Fabian Mix) - No Doubt
Endless, Nameless - Nirvana
All Star - Smash Mouth
Inaction - We Are Scientists
D'amour en amour - Louise Attaque
Blue - Elastica
Heart Of Gold (Live) - Stereophonics
Message To Crommie - Planet 4 Folk Quartet
Barbarella - Capri
Girls And Boys - Blur
At The Party - Northern State
Too Dead For Me - Atari Teenage Riot
Slide - Human Waste Project
Crazy Love - MJ Cole
Simon Says - Catch
Soul-Crusher - White Zombie
On Passing Lilac Urine - Half Man Half Biscuit
Check Out - Joy Zipper
Again - Janet Jackson
In My Time Of Need - Ryan Adams
What Up Man - The Cool Kids
Tower Of Song - Marianne Faithfull
Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
Playboy - Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi
August 7, 4:15 - Jon Bon Jovi
You Lied To Me - Cathy Dennis
Royale With Cheese - Pulp Fiction OST
We've Got It Goin' On - Backstreet Boys
Ready For The Floor - Hot Chip
(It's Hard) Letting You Go - Bon Jovi
Hello - Courtney Love
Waterloo - Bananarama
Reward - The Teardrop Explodes
White Lines (Don't Do It) - Duran Duran feat Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Spin The Bottle - The Juliana Hatfield 3
Cruel Summer - Ace Of Base
Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison
Best Friend - Brandy
Polaroid - Richmond Fontaine
For Tonight You're Only Here To Know - The Distillers
Everybody Be Somebody - Ruffneck feat Yavahn
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Cellophane - Amanda Ghost
Mercutura - Mark Snow
The Day We Find Love - 911
You Do - McAlmont & Butler
Five Fathoms (Original Mix Radio Edit) - Everything But The Girl
As Sure As The Sun - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

iPod Recently Played for the last week

Just to let everyone know, Searching For Soul is on at the Horseshoe Inn, Sheep Street, Wellingborough on Thursday from 9pm. It's a night of soul, funk, rhythm & blues etc with my other half Pete as a resident DJ so please feel free to come check it out.

I really do need to sit down and do some proper blogging but as I've been busy at work and haven't been too well of late, it seems to keep being neglected. In the meantime...

U.S. Fade Out - Atari Teenage Riot
Most Girls (X.Men Vocal Mix) - Pink
She Cries Your Name - Beth Orton
Karmacoma (Ventom Dub Special) - Massive Attack
Beetlebum - Blur
Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring
Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
Cars That Go Boom - L'Trimm
Touch Me (All Night Long) - Cathy Dennis
Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control) - Groove Armada feat Mutya
Chick Fit - All Saints
Everyone Nose (All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom) - N.E.R.D.
Tears Don't Fall - Bullet For My Valentine
Mono - Courtney Love
Rooftops - Lostprophets
Wings Of A Butterfly - HIM
Chop Suey! - System Of A Down
Pretend We're Dead - L7
Nothing - A
Girl All The Bad Guys Want - Bowling For Soup
Beat It - Fall Out Boy feat John Mayer
Sunset Strip - Courtney Love
Get Me Home (Edit) - Foxy Brown feat Blackstreet
Cup Of Coffee - Garbage
Back For Good - Take That
Due South Theme - Jay Semko
Red Alert - Basement Jaxx
Propane Nightmares - Pendulum
Another Way To Die - Jack White & Alicia Keys
Black Steel - Tricky
Love Me Or Hate Me - Lady Sovereign
Blinded By The Lights - The Streets
So Sick - Ne-Yo
Hate That I Love You - Rihanna
Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright
The Winners Song - Geraldine McQueen
Secretly Jealous - Coyote Shivers
Good Thing - Eternal
The Irony Of It All - The Streets
Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Midnight At The Oasis - The Brand New Heavies
The Ghost Of You - My Chemical Romance
Kissing You (Love Theme From Romeo + Juliet) (Instrumental) - Nellee Hooper
OK (Rock Remix) - Big Brovaz
Huckleberry Grove - Ocean Colour Scene
Run For Cover - Sugababes
Darwa Interlude - Alliance Ethnik with Gad Elmaleh & Djamel)
More Than A Woman (Album Version) - Aaliyah
Never Ever - All Saints
When Doves Cry - Patti Smith
Natural (Single Version) - S Club 7
Nothing Compares 2 U - Stereophonics
Quelqu'un nous appelle - Pascal Obispo
La plume - Louise Attaque

iPod Recently Played for the last week

Everyone Nose - N.E.R.D.
Moi... Lolita (Single Version) - Alizee
Rifles - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
It's A Girl Thing - My Life Story
Make Mistakes - Infadels
Secretly Jealous - Coyote Shivers
Dying - Hole
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Comes As No Surprise - Mansun
Crazy For You - Madonna
Shiver - Maroon 5
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Do I Lie? - Alisha's Attic
Payback Time (Nellee Hooper Master Mix) - The Dysfunctional Psychedelic Waltons
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
Taking On The World - Gun
The Winners Song - Geraldine McQueen
Cars That Go Boom - L'Trimm
Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright
Hate That I Love You - Rihanna
So Sick - Ne-Yo
Under The Thumb - Amy Studt
LOL - Little Jackie
The Hill, The View & The Lights - Cajun Dance Party
Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant

iPod Recently Played for the last week

On The Attack And More - 20 Fingers feat Gillette (Album)
Kala - MIA (Album)
Empire Records OST (Album)
Don't Trust The Ones You Love - King Adora
Littlest Things - Lily Allen
Keep Your Hands Off My Girl - Good Charlotte
Another Night - MC Sar & The Real McCoy
Runaway - Lush
Don't Mess With My Man (Album Version) - Lucy Pearl
Debbie Loves Joey - Helen Love
Big Bang Theory Theme - Barenaked Ladies
Boyfriend - Alphabeat
Joga - Bjork
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Don't Call Me Baby (Original Mix Edit) - Madison Avenue
Forget Your False Mess'iahs - Ciccone
Push - Matchbox 20
Wings Of A Butterfly - HIM
Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings
Ready To Go (Radio Edit) - Republica
2:1 - Elastica
Burn Black - Hole
500 (Shake Baby Shake) - Lush
Guiding Star - Cast
Turpentine - Hole
Off The Hook - CSS
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) - Dead Or Alive
Free - DJ Quicksilver
Everything Is Good For You - Crowded House
Antmusic - Adam Ant
The Eternal - Joy Division
Bedtime Story - Madonna
In The End - Green Day
The Happy End (The Drunk Room) - Mercury Rev
Hold On - Razorlight
State Of Grace - Caprice
Lost Horizons - Gin Blossoms
Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner - Fall Out Boy
Black Pearl - MN8
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Cock In My Pocket - Passenger To Nowhere
Work (Freemasons Radio Edit) - Kelly Rowland
Bubblegun - Placebo
M+M's - Blink-182
On Days Like These (Instrumental) - Italian Job Original Score
We Are Detective - Thompson Twins
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Time Of My Life - H-Blockx
Naked (Garden Of Eden Vocal Mix) - Louise
Ain't That A Lot Of Love (Phats & Small Mutant Disco Edit) - Simply Red
Death Disco - P.i.L.
Nightclub People [pas serieux] (Alternate Take) - Ex-Rental
Baby - Brandy
Breathe - Depeche Mode
Polly (Live) - Nirvana
Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song) - Safri Duo
Many Bars And No Money - Alec Empire
Come Home - James
Dub Be Good To Me - Beats International
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Klaatu
5 Minutes - The Stranglers
Valerie - The Zutons
Papa Don't Preach - Kelly Osbourne
Space Odyssey - I Against I
Bom Digi Bom - Ice MC
The Day We Caught The Train (Glastonbury 97) - Ocean Colour Scene
A Brief High - The Free French
Children - Robert Miles
Autosuggestion - Joy Division
Fillip - Muse
New Generation - Suede

Nice weather for ducks

Yesterday, given the unseasonally sunny weather, me and Pete went to Barnwell Country Park to feed the ducks. I hadn't been there since my parents used to drag me out for some exercise and family bonding so that was some years ago. This meant I just got Pete to drive in the general direction of where I thought it might be, with the instruction that if we hit Norfolk, we'd gone too far. It was further than I thought (well, I knew it was near Oundle, I just didn't have much of an idea where Oundle was) but we got there about 4.15 and it was still warm enough. We had a wander round for half an hour, feeding ducks. I did find the seagulls lurking about slightly unnerving in a Hitchcock kind of way, but I ignored this and enjoyed the late afternoon sun. I think geese have got smaller than they were when I was a kid. I used to find them terrifying. I remember my grandmother chasing them away a lot.

I don't know why I like feeding ducks so much. I used to have a tradition of returning to Geneva for my birthdays up until I turned 18, and I always use to go round the lake to Versoix to feed the ducks. Mallards, mandarins, the ubiquitous Canada geese, coots... I could happily spend hours throwing bread at them (to them, surely?) and staring out over the water. Maybe it's a Pisces thing. The marshy waters of Barnwell Country Park aren't quite the same as looking out over Lac Leman with the mountains lurking in the background, Mont Blanc appearing on a clear day, but it felt a little similar. The fact that some people passed us speaking French did help with the ambiance.

I wrote a lot of poems when I was younger. There was one I wrote at school in Balsall Common, aged about 7 or 8, called Ducks. I have no idea what this was related to, other than I remember the brother of a girl in my class used to breed and show ducks and occasionally brought them in to assemblies and such, so maybe that's the link. People seemed to like the poem and a lot of fuss was made (by 7 or 8 I was already a bit blase when people got worked up over my writing... how times change!). My mother still refers to it. I think she can see the influence of the Ogden Nash book she had bought me. I know it off by heart and am almost tempted to type it up here for posterity. But I won't. I think 26 year old me is a bit resentful of having reached her creative peak at 7 or 8.

Still, I find ducks very soothing. And feeding them bread can be considered responsible waste manangement. Ducks are eco friendly.

Lazy blogging to prove I still exist

Thanks to the amazing organisation powers of Sky, I will be without the internet at home for another week or so yet. So in the meantime, I pinched this off Lucy.

- last cigarette: About 10.20pm on 6th July
- last alcoholic drink: I had a JD & diet coke in the Shoe on Monday.
- last car ride: Becky drove me back from the Barge at lunch
- last kiss: This morning
- last good cry: Last good cry? Probably sometime last week when we'd just moved house.
- last library book checked out: I think it was a sociology book in the Weavers school library
- last movie seen in theater: Transformers ages and ages ago
- last book read: Last one I finished was Auto Fiction by Hitomi Kanehara
- last movie rented: It was about 2 years ago, and it was Click, which I never got round to watching because my grandfather died that evening. Not been to Blockbuster since!
- last cuss word uttered: It was probably 'shit'. I try not to swear at work so that would be as bad as it would have got, I think.
- last crush: Hmmm... Pete? Beyond him, I honestly don't know! Oh god, that's tragic!
- last tv show watched: GMTV this morning before work
- last time showered: Monday night I think
- last shoes worn: I have my New Rocks on now... battered as they are.
- last CD played: I mainly use the iPod now. Last CD was Gourmandises by Alizee I think.
- last item bought: Did the shopping last night and the last thing through the till was Heat magazine so that would be it.
- last download: The Flobots single of the week on iTunes a few weeks ago.
- last annoyance: The print drivers playing up at work
- last disappointment: Probably in myself that I'm doing this instead of the many other things I should be doing!
- last soda: I don't really do soda... it probably would have been the diet coke in the aforementioned drink on Monday
- last thing written: A VAT receipt cover letter for a client
- last key used: my office key
- last word(s) spoken: "What was that about?"
- last sleep: Last night until 6.30 this morning
- last IM: Probably a video conference with my Dad for work
- last sexual fantasy: LOL... about 10 minutes ago?
- last weird encounter: Woman on the street this morning asking me about a cat
- last ice cream eaten: Don't think I've had ice cream since I last went to Chi Chi's and that was months ago
- last time amused: This morning
- last time wanting to die: Oh, every 10 minutes. I'm melodramatic.
- last time hugged: This morning
- last time scolded: Probably last night for being to strict to my diet
- last time resentful: Constantly. I'm working on it.
- last chair sat in: The one at my desk I'm in now. It's a big black leather thing that looks far more important that I am.
- last underwear worn: Red ones
- last bra worn: Silver... I'm mismatched
- last shirt worn: I have a sleeveless crepe black thing on. I don't like it. It's a work top. I don't wear stuff I like for work.
- last webpage visited: Facebook