tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79211872012-01-12T10:25:41.993+13:00Five Minutes of Funk every day!<br> Life, love, lust, laughter and everything in betweenFunkyJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01862437538501173125noreply@blogger.comBlogger332125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7921187.post-56399775226566622632012-01-12T10:25:00.000+13:002012-01-12T10:25:42.004+13:00

For the Kotaku Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: War competition

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People who read this site, people who know me, and even those people who have only met me a few times, will tell you this: I LOVE music. People may have mixed opinions about me, some may think I'm a straight up utter prick, but they'll all agree on one thing: I LOVE music. Even my email signature reads: Without Music, Life is an Error. I love DJing. I love playing people new music, making mix

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CD: PWEI - New Noise Designed By a Sadist: Only Graham, but still rocking!

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Remember how I said I was going to do five word reviews? Well, that kind of bit the dust when I couldn't get access to any CDs and such. But, I've got access to Shock, Fuse, and EMI plus a few other places, so will continue them forthwith.

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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin My rating: 5 of 5 stars Although I am "one of those" who started with the TV series, the intrigue of the series made me want to read the book, see where the book deviated, and hopefully figure out a bit more about the world and the characters relations to each other for the next series. View all my reviews

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So, a whole bunch of moronic dipshits are pissed at Google for not allowing Android Marketplace in Australia according to ZDNet. Guess what idiots - it's NOT Google's fault! Do you think they deliberately want to hold back their market? Do you think they want to stop people in Australia watching things on their phones? Do you think they're sitting in their ivory towers, cackling with evil glee

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OK, so I've got Google Plus. http://gplus.to/funkyj is my site. Feel free to look me up and add me to your circles. I've read that Blogger might be re-branded eventually, and so I'm hoping they integrate everything together nicely.

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Seriously, who keeps giving these people money to make these TV shows? Sure, ok, if I were a deaf, blind mute who had just been living in a cave in Nowherekistan and just returned to full cognitive ability recently, I might possibly enjoy this show. But because I'm 38 years old and have been exposed to a fair amount of pop- and not so pop-culture in these last 38 years, like most people in

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So, I woke up with this song in my head today... This is How it Feels - by Inspiral Carpets covered by Carter USM. I know, I know - J you miserable bastard! you're thinking... but if I may channel Andrew P Street here for a moment and pontificate brilliantly about music... More importantly, I think, it was this version, by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, in my head. As they take what is

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And after getting excited about playing music again, this happens... A note on the turntable.fm website: We're very sorry, but while we would love to let you in and rock out with us, we need to currently restrict turntable access to only the United States due to licensing constraints. We are working very hard to try and get you in as soon as possible. If you believe this is a mistake and

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IGN have a great and disturbing article about Team Bondi's LA Noire 7 year development cycle. It features responses by Brendan McNamara, who is the typical egotistical management type. I'm sick of dealing with management fucktards like McNamara. I’m butting against it daily at the moment and I’m sick of it. There may be a bit of projection onto McNamara in this rant, but he’s not the only

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So, I have finally found a way to get back on the airwaves! There's this great new streaming service called Turntable.fm. You sign up using your facebook log in, and you can select any number of rooms generally split into genres. For those DJs amongst us, you can create a list of tunes from their databank (or upload your own if they're not in there) and spin tracks alongside 4 other DJs,

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This "psychologist" talking about violence after the Stanley Cup; Quote: [PEOPLE] spend countless hours exposed to incredible violence through TV, video games and movies. "I'm not surprised at all that the very same people who've grown up on a steady diet of observing and playing violence are then intrigued to watch it when they see it in person. ... There was a large number of

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I love Stephen Fry, and follow him on Twitter, and he just mentioned this: Off to do some voicing for Little Big Planet. Then lunch and QI. Only three more recordings and the 16 of Series 9 will be done. Has he just outed Little Big Planet 3? Or is this for the PS Vita? Either way, I'd LOVE to do a game with someone of Stephen's talent!

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So, after about a week and a half where every morning it would be a different song, it's been a while since I woke up with a song my head... well, at least one I hadn't listened to the previous day. But this morning, woke up with this... Oh one two! Breakadawn - De La Soul

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Woke up with Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder today in my head today... it's not even my birthday!

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So, I woke up at 6am with a coughing fit, and for some reason this was in my head: Rick James - Super Freak At least this time it was a fucking cool song, and not some lame arse soft rock song ;)

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OK, I must be channelling some kind of crap old 80s rock station or something... Woke up with Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" in my head this morning. Thing is, until I looked up song, I didn't even know it was Billy Joel! I thought it was some more obscure band like Toto or someone. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xrlt_billy-joel-you-may-be-right_music Also, youtube doesn't have this

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I always seem to be waking up with songs in my head, so I'm going to share with the interweb... Today it was Howard Jones - No One is to Blame

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Ok, after careful consideration, I've decided to make it Five Word Reviews, to keep along the theme of Five Minutes of Funk... So, to reiterate: given the amount I watch and listen to, I thought you all might like to see more of my stuff but in smaller amounts, so I've created Five Minute Reviews on Twitter. The rules are simple - Five words on games, films, music, television... maybe even

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Considering the amount I watch and listen to, I thought you all might like to see more of my stuff but in smaller amounts, so I've created Four Minute Reviews on Twitter. The rules are simple - Four words on games, films, music, television... maybe even other things. The order will be Type: Name: Review, so for example: Film: Black Swan: Great film enjoyed thoroughly Simply follow me on

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This is a neat little Facebook like & share game. Day 30 - Your Favourite Song This Time Last Year I don't remember! But according to Last.fm it was this one: Ozomatli - Cumbia de los Muertos  This band was one of the most enjoyable bands live. Their groovy blend of latin rock and hiphop is outshined by their on-stage antics. Go see them!

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This is a neat little Facebook like & share game. Day 29 - A Song From Your Childhood I was shit scared of this as a kid. I remember my neighbours used to play it to make me go home. Once, a friend locked me in a room and played it through speakers - I crawled out the window to get away from it. Jeff Wayne - Eve of War - War of the Worlds The funny thing is is so god damn funky, I love it

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This is a neat little Facebook like & share game. Day 28 - A Song that Makes You Feel Guilty I don't feel guilty about much, to be honest. Data Rock - Fa Fa Fa (in Simlish) But, yeah, I might not have bought the Sims 2 expansion pack this song was featured on. Hence the guilt.

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This is a neat little Facebook like & share game. Day 27 - a Song You Wish You Could Play If I could play an instrument, it would be bass guitar or keyboard. If I could play any song using those skills, it would be this one Herbie Hancock - Hang Up Your Hang Ups The film clip is superb. Herbie is superb.

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