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(Image by Beau Bo D’Or)

Who did Dave meet?

Pisstake of election debate anecdotes from Dave “I met a black man” Cameron.

For your listening pleasure

I’m going to write a post comparing all online music services soon, but for the purposes of this, the first in a series of music compilations, Spotify is ideal. The free Spotify client is invitation only (and I can’t help you with an invitation, I’m afraid – only paying subscribers can), or you can take the plunge and subscribe for a tenner a month (not available at all in the US as yet. Sorry, Yank friends).

I’ve given Last.fm links to the tracks, where available, in case you don’t have Spotify (roughly half of the tracks can be played in full on demand over Last.fm.

If your ears turn themselves inside out with excitement and quivering joy upon listening to these sublime morsels of aural luxuriance, then I would be forever grateful if you could purchase them via my Amazon shop (not store – it’s a shop, dammit, this isn’t America)

So without further ado or adon’t, I am proud to present the first Flanerie Spotify-cast playlist.

It’s 1.4 hours long – 17 tracks of bass-heavy laid-back, yet rhythmically charged soul jazz

Playlist:

Sunshine – Build An Ark

Just Getting By (Live In Session: Gilles Peterson) – Elizabeth Shepherd
Wonderful World – Grand Union
Break Down – Jason Moran
Wood and Strings – Femi Temowo
Another Day – 4hero featuring Jill Scott

Waltz for Koop – Koop

Hard Sole Shoe – Jenny Scheinman
Mami – Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band
One Day – Two Banks of Four

Bemsha Swing – Leon Parker
Good Humor Man – Blue Mitchell

Open the Door – Betty Carter

Come Together – Lynne Arriale

F.T.B. – Robert Glasper

Maiden Voyage / Everything in its Right Place – Robert Glasper

Chant – Robert Glasper

Trololol cat

A short film about an excellent Gaelic folk artist

One of my favourite artists, Julie Fowlis:

Recycling other people’s jokes

An ancient Greek goes to a tailor with a torn pair of trousers.
“Eumenides,” he asks?
“I don’t know,” replies the tailor, “Euripides?”

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Karl Marx goes to visit his friend Friedrich Engels, they have tea and cake, and Marx excuses himself to use the bathroom. As he flushes the toilet, he hears the unmistakable sound of a string quartet. He shrugs and goes back to Engels.
Over the next few weeks, Marx continues to visit Engels and use his bathroom, and every time he flushes, there’s the sound of a string quartet.
Finally he confronts Engels: “Look Friedrich, every time I flush your toilet, I hear a string quartet, what’s that all about?”
“Oh that,” says Engels, “That’s the violins inherent in the cistern.”

2 nanoseconds to liftoff

Taken near Chatillon-sur-Indre, France, in August.

Dramatic chipmunk

Getting myself together, slowly but surely. Will blog, but for now, just the funniest 5 second clip I’ve seen in a long while – a dramatic chipmunk:

No surprises there, then

My Political Views
I am a far-left social moderate
Left: 8.04, Libertarian: 0.79

Political Spectrum Quiz

I will start blogging more substantive posts soon, I promise.

More later, but…oh the relief