Radiohead: Environmentally Conscious

"But at the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don't like all the energy consumption, the travel. It's an ecological disaster, traveling, touring...We did one of those carbon footprint things recently where they assessed the last period of touring we did and tried to work out where the biggest problems were. And it was obviously everybody traveling to the shows." read more
~ Wired via Jason

In the Press: Sydsvenskan

I ended up getting interviewed briefly by a Swedish Newspaper yesterday lunchtime. This morning, when Christopher's paper came through the door, there I was.

Here's a sketchy translation for you non-swedish speakers:

How much would you pay to download a song off the internet?
About 3 kronor (just over 30p)

Do you download music?
Yes, I recently downloaded the new Radiohead album for £2

For those of you who think I'm a skinflint for paying so little, I assure you that they received more from me this way than they would if they were signed to a big record label.

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Inspired by Keywords

Recently someone found my blog by searching for:

i want out of the labels. i don’t want my life crammed into a single word. a story. i want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. a real adventure.

I had forgotten that I'd ever written that quote by Chuck Palahniuk here, and was inspired once more by its sentiment.

My Christmas Gift to You

This one is for my readers (I know there are a couple of you)...
Instead of sending a tacky E-Card, or some other fairly generic, and thoughtless, way of wasting your time I thought I would point you in the direction of the following MP3:

Joy ~ by Rob Bell (click here)

Kick back and enjoy. Happy Christmas!

25 Years

So I've just turned 25! A quarter of a century. So far I've:

• had breakfast with Sofia (including Gingerbread Yoghurt (or Pepparkaks fil for you Swedes))


• had Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday played to me by Christopher as he dashed out to work.


• As well as: experiencing the Facebook Enigma (more to follow...), and


• Spoken to my Mum and Zoe on Skype.

Nice.

The Bible According to Google Earth

"Scenes from the Bible have been imagined by countless artists over the centuries, but never quite like this... (read more)
Via Creative Review
and Kottke