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I've come across some neat things on the internet in the last couple of days, and since you guys are my favourites I thought I would share them with you.

I found this album via Kinokofry (an excellent collection of webcomics, by the way), and I strongly advise you to download it, as well!


Sound Club Sweet by Patrick Alexander (パッチ)

Cute and cheerful chiptunes-esque music. I listened to it all day yesterday and it filled my heart with nothing but peace and joy.*

On that note.

(NSFW!)

While the Pope is in the country, you can download Tim Minchin's Pope Song free from his website. (Tim Minchin's website, not the Pope's.) (Obviously.) It pretty much expresses my opinions on this topic.

Also, audiobooks! Audible is giving away free books in the Guardian, which is crazy cool, and people have posted all of the links in this forum. (If you go through the pages, there's direct links to Audible, as well, instead of through the Guardian website). I think it's a one-week only thing, so the earlier ones may not work anymore, but at least some of them should.

I've been listening to Down and Out in Paris and London on my way to and from the library (while getting ground into dust over and over again by Karen from the Elite Four). I'd never heard of it before so I had no real expectations, but it's really interesting so far. Also the reader does brilliant voices and accents verging on the silly, which makes it twice as good.

*So much so that I decided to show my appreciation via the medium of PayPal. Which you should totally do to, if you want and can! Paying people for rad stuff they make is the way to go.
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16. 9. 2010 9:04 am | Personal, Syndicated | Tags: , | Comment
This is my "Most Played" list from two weeks ago:


"Most Played" today:


Yyyyeah.


So hey, do you want to see me trying to teach myself how to paint with watercolours again and falling on my face? YES YOU DO.

This whole Drawing Every Day project has been pretty good to me so far. On the days when I don't manage to do anything but a few lame, abortive scribbles (you will notice there are two dates suspiciously absent here, and that is because what I drew on them was rubbish) I get super grumpy and feel like a wangsty failure, but otherwise I can practically feel my imagination and creativity getting warmed up again. It's like I had to give myself an excuse to make the effort, even though it's something I want to do. Human brains, idek.

And I'm (re)learning a few things, too.



Lesson 1: don't keep painting just because you're having fun and don't want to be done yet. (This turned out pretty good, anyway, but I could've done better with the random addition of green bits.)






Lesson 2: Watercolour paper and erasers are not BFFs. Also think about what colours you're going to use beforehand. Also the 3rd dimension has never done anything to you, stop drawing side-views that look like they've been cut out of paper.

But hey, at least the feeling I was going for was conveyed.



This totally counts as a drawing, because maps are awesome.
(Disregard the wonky architecture at the bottom, it was about 2am by that point.)



(The Blue King ftw.)



In conclusion: not the most amazing stuff I've ever drawn, but I feel pretty good about myself. I think I'll gradually add other things to do every day, since this seems to be working.
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I was in London on Friday looking at Goodenough College, and afterwards I totally bought an album in real life on a CD and everything. :O

"Sigh No More" from Mumford & Sons; this is my favourite song on it at the moment:



You should check out their YouTube channel, they have a ton of great songs.

I haven't scanned my drawings from the last few days yet, so instead here's a poem I found recently: "On Living" by Nâzım Hikmet.
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7. 3. 2010 11:53 pm | Personal, Syndicated | Tags: , | Comment