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The Top Twenty of 2009: 10-1

half goon half god — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:34:10 +0000

10. Royksopp – Junior
Youtube: The Girl and the Robot

9. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Youtube: French Navy

8. Islands – Vapours
Youtube: No You Don’t

7. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Youtube: Stillness Is The Move

6. Eels – Hombre Lobo
Youtube: Fresh Blood

5. James Husband – A Parallax I
Youtube: Window

4. Franz Ferdinand – Tonight
Youtube: No You Girls

3. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
NME.com: Watching the Planets (NSFW)

2. God Help The Girl – God Help The Girl
Youtube: Funny Little Frog

1. Girls – Album
Youtube: Lust For Life

The Top Twenty of 2009: 20-11

half goon half god — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:14:31 +0000

20. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Youtube: This Tornado Loves You (Live)

19. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Youtube: Further Complications

18. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Youtube: My Girls

17. The xx – xx
Youtube: Basic Space

16. The Dead Weather – Horehound
Youtube: Treat Me Like Your Mother

15. David McCormack – Little Murders
Youtube: Good Times (Keep Following Me Around)

14. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Youtube: 1901

13. Pinky Beecroft & The White Russians – Pretty Black
the pb rectangle

12. The Boy Least Likely To – The Law of the Playground
Youtube: When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade

11. St. Vincent – Actor
Youtube: Actor Out Of Work

Here we go again

half goon half god — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:44:18 +0000

Hey there, it’s almost the new year and we know what that means, don’t we?! YES! It means that I’m bored with nothing to do, and that usually means getting grand plans into my head which very rarely come into fruition! This time, the grand plan is restarting this blog. I have important ideas which must be shared!

Well, not really. I actually have no idea. My head is empty and the emptiness is surrounded by blank concrete walls. Someone’s C&B’d them because it’s been derelict for so long. Good job, you.

This blog ran from mid 2004-early 2009, moving from Livejournal to WordPress (with a short stint on Tumblr), and I usually managed to update it at least once a month if lucky, but the simplicity of Twitter (hey, twitter.com/halfgoon) pretty much made it redundant. Posting crap with less effort? Yes please! However, this meant no more blathering on, which I think is quite obviously a strength of mine. Hence a return (well, a plan to return) to a real blog.

Also, I really want to do my top twenty albums of the year. I didn’t get to do it last year due to being without internet for most of December & January, and I miss pontificating on music. By ‘pontificating’, I of course mean ‘being a horrible fanboy about my favourite bands regardless of whether they released a good album or not’.

So that’s it. The half blog returns. I think for Christmas I’ll get it some uppercase lettering.

Erm… Hi! Sort of…

half goon half god — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:37:05 +0000

Yeah, so I completely failed to start writing again. I just don’t have anything to write about at the moment, really. I mean, I went to Sydney last week to see some bands and friends, but that isn’t really interesting to anyone else at all, is it. I even took a bunch of pictures of gorillas at Taronga Zoo. I’ll probably upload them to flickr at some point, but considering I haven’t even uploaded the ones I took in Finland yet, I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

So until I start writing (proper writing, not just links to amusing newspaper articles or youtube videos), I’ll be on twitter. Add me or whatever if you’re on it. Because that’s where my articles and links and youtubes will be for the time being.

Cheery bye!

Jesse.

Two Months…

half goon half god — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:51:53 +0000

Wow. I haven’t updated this blog for two months. The last update was December 1st. It’s February 1st now. Jeepers.

I’m back in Australia, it’s stupidly hot here, and I wish I was back in the UK. But I have some stuff planned, so that’s good. More info to come, I guess.

I’ll sum up the last month or so of my trip at some point next week – there’s some good photos from Finland that I haven’t uploaded yet, so I’ll have to do that sometime. And I might even do an extremely belated 2008 music roundup. I attempted something of a top twenty back in December, but I got to number fifteen and got bored because I was writing it in my notebook. I probably won’t do one as extensive as previous years, because, well, fuck it.

Halfblog is back up and running for another year. Expect more of the same tired old drivel. I know I am. But at least no work complaining can be expected – I haven’t got a job! Hurrah…

Frost!

half goon half god — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:41:33 +0000

These pics were taken around 16.30 today. That frost had been there all day. All day. The sun is so weak it can’t burn through tiny ice particles. As for the square, it’s covered in a thin layer of ice. I nearly fell over a whole bunch of times crossing it last night.

Fog!

half goon half god — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:04:22 +0000

It is somewhat foggy today. So I went out and took a bunch of pictures. That’s just a few of them – the rest are on my flickr page. The link is in the sidebar.

It was seriously cold out there, so after about 10 minutes my hands were numb, and even my camera was icy. It was also very quiet. Apart from the constant noise of traffic from the motorway over the other side of the field, it was silent. All that could be heard was the rustle of squirrels and rabbits in the leaves. I tried taking a picture of one of the squirrels, but it ran up a tree and disappeared.

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

half goon half god — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:09:13 +0000

I’ve become somewhat obsessed with this song. The singer was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks last night. Their other songs are pretty decent, too.

Around the Bend – The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

http://www.theasteroidsgalaxytour.com

The Tastiest Accident Ever

half goon half god — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:49:17 +0000

(from news.bbc.co.uk)

M-WAY COVERED BY SWEETS AND BEER

Part of the M42 is shut after a six-vehicle crash sent marshmallows and beer spilling out onto the carriageway.

The northbound stretch was closed at junctions 10 and 11, near Tamworth Services, after several lorries and a van collided at about 0400 GMT.

I just love the idea of a truck full of marshmallows.

A Beret, a Baguette, and a Cop

half goon half god — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:58:24 +0000

Yeah, I spent twenty minutes drawing this.