4 March 2011
28 February 2011
APPLICANTS GIG This Friday 4th March 2011
Hello!
So it's almost March & luck will hopefully be leering it's gorgeous phantasmagorical head my way.
This friday, if you're at a loose end, or want to partake in my chance joyeuse please come down & have a hot hop, sultry skip, or jagged jump! Also you may have a look at my gorgeous new/old phone.
The Miller
96 Snowsfields Road
Starts at 8pm & it's a paltry £5
Nearest Tube: London Bridge
See you lovely lads & ladies there!!
x x
jeff
22 February 2011
février, Qu'ai-je fait?
As Adam sang in the New Year with his top tunes, I sung along with him. As January was pushed in, blustery and cold, with intermittent blue skies, I felt hopeful. School was going well, grades were getting improved, and I felt a sense of surprising calm. That is, until February. Perhaps the double double toil and trouble was all for me, but I am ending it on what seems to be rather an un-high note.
Project meetings, essays and a multitude of coursework came cascading down. For some reason, I seemed to have less money in my bank than I thought, and applying for part-time work seemed to run me into dead-end streets with rats scuttling in their corners, paper bags blowing in the breeze.
It wasn't over yet, no. February gave me a rotten hand, which took away my phone. I now, have a replacement. After a day of declaring my case to the metropolitan police, claim numbers, insurance numbers, phone numbers, card numbers, the insurance company still wanted to keep my case in pending. So here is the fruit of my labour thus far, Alcatel. Midi ringtones bring a cacophony of much missed sounds.
My dear Al shall keep me connected. I have not yet been beat by the system! Let's just hope that March will bring some kind of respite from this February storm.
appelez-moi
x x
jeff
30 December 2010
What I've been listening to this year
Now 2010 is just about finished, I thought I'd put together a list of my top songs of the year.
Not all of these were actually released this year (quite a few weren't in fact), but they've been new to me or rediscovered over the last few months.
These are my favourites out of what I've been listening to. So now you can listen to them too and pretend you're inside my brain. Or else just scoff at my poor taste.
25. Jumps The Fence - The BPA
I've no idea what this is all about
24. Try This At Home - Frank Turner
Earnest guilty pleasure
23. Abdul Abulbul Amir - Frank Crumit
This was one of Lynn Barber's Desert Island Discs
22. California Gurls - Katy Perry
I can't help it. Sorry. I even like Snoop's rubbish rap. The video is horrible though
21. Pop A Cap In Yo Ass - Ben Watt, Estelle
Much better than the title implies
20. Once - Diana Vickers
I think Cathy Dennis wrote this. Deserves more recognition. I am not in the slightest bit cool.
19. Romance is Boring - Los Campesinos
Indie indie indie.
18. Stepfather Factory - El P
Can't decide if this is genius or very naff. Possibly a bit of both.
17. Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour - Lonnie Donegan
It's Jeff's fault I've been listening to this
16. 16 Tonnes - Tennesse Ernie Ford
This too.
15. Let's Go Swimming - 'Allo Darlin'
Just the right side of too twee
14. Pass Out - Tinie Tempah
I've also been to Southampton and not Scunthorpe, so I identify
13. Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
I've really got no desire to go surfing. I went on a stag do once where the "activity" was that we were all supposed to go surfing. I boycotted it and went to a jumble sale on my own instead. Then we went clubbing in Newquay. Newquay's an awful place.
12. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
This reminds me of Eye of the Tiger, but possibly even better
11. Round and Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
It's a grower.
10. Younger Us - Japandroids
Not quite the best Japandroids song, but the one I've listened to most this year. Contains my favourite recent couplet: "Remember that night you were already in bed/Said fuck it got up and drank with me instead." Yes. Yes I do remember that.
9. Undertow - Warpaint
This is great, but sadly the rest of their songs turned out to be a bit boring
8. Ageless Beauty - The Most Serence Republic
I know nothing about this. Can't even remember where I heard it. It's rather jolly though.
7. Scribble - Underworld
Apparently the new album wasn't that good, but you wouldn't know going by this
6. Smells Like Content - The Books
The sound of going for a walk at 5 in the morning when you've been awake all night.
5. Daydream - Beach Fossils
I heard this song and thought it was good
4. Lisztomania - Phoenix
I nearly went off this when I found out the guy from Phoenix is going out with Sofia Coppola, which makes me a shallow and terrible person
3. Bang Bang Bang - Mark Ronson
Infinitely better than all that Amy Winehouse 60s Zutons nonsense he was messing around with.
2. Swoon - The Chemical Brothers
I don't even particularly like Chemical Brothers.
1. MTFU - Napoleon IIIrd
Whoosh.
26 November 2010
Applicants Gig at 229. An Afterword.
It has been quite a fun-filled week. Applicants got to play at 229 on Wednesday with Mat Motte formerly from Mower headlining. Paul was beside himself with delight, as he is a big Mower fan. So in good Applicants style, here is the picture to document such an event. The gig went down well & i managed not to spill anything (this time). We had to cut our set short to fit in all the bands, but that was fun & i managed to get one of my science lecturers, Dr. Curley to come down! that was a definite highlight for me & it seemed like he really enjoyed it (Thanks Dr. Curley). Mat Motte managed to surprise the audience by stripping off to nothing but his boxer-shorts, from full-attire of a suit complete with suspenders, a top-hat and briefcase. The move into semi-nudity, reminded me of when Applicants toured & played in someone's basement in Brighton, where Fidel, managed to manifest the same happening, although went all the way, by removing his pants (it was quite hot in the basement).
Anyway, thanks to everyone for coming down & i'm off to uni to put my bacteria in the incubator now. Grow my pretties, grow & fluoresce!
x x
jeff
27 October 2010
4 October 2010
From the Halloween Archive of Applicants
I guess I missed spring cleaning, as it's autumn now, but no matter, I still pressed on & decided to clear up my cable
drawer. Rubber bands courtesy of the Royal Mail at the ready, I set out to detangle
the web of cables that inevitable gets tangled, no matter how hard you try to maintain its neat presence. I had no idea what some of the cables were for,they were missing their limbs which gave them a purpose, so sadly, I had to amputate them from the drawer & into the inevitable black hole bin bag it went. Au revoir dear cables! I did enjoy your connectivity of power.
stupid of me to forget a couple of lines. I blame it on the drink. Although I somehow now remember that maybe we celebrated Halloween twice?
drawer. Rubber bands courtesy of the Royal Mail at the ready, I set out to detangle the web of cables that inevitable gets tangled, no matter how hard you try to maintain its neat presence. I had no idea what some of the cables were for,they were missing their limbs which gave them a purpose, so sadly, I had to amputate them from the drawer & into the inevitable black hole bin bag it went. Au revoir dear cables! I did enjoy your connectivity of power. Anyway, I found a digital camera which I was not aware that I had. Proceeding to find the rest of the "set" I managed to find a cable in which to connect it to my computer. It was a treasure trove of old memories of existences pas
t. A portion of which were these Applicants Halloween pictures of when we were such bright, young, things.
Adam was of course celebrating in a more civilized manner, some whiskey, and a good old chin wag with chums. Right Adam? If you could add your halloween costume to this post, as a post-post-comparison?
I do vaguely remember that the paint we used was messy & that it was a gig we did at the Russian bar. I proceeded to stupidly wear REAL ballet slippers (forgot about broken glass on London streets), not to mention an enormous authentic ballet tutu (which is archived up storage somewhere). It was a good gig. Although I think it was very chaotic & I completely forgot the lyrics to "in the drink". I think. The funny thing was that I didn't have many things to sing or shout back in the day, so it was pretty
stupid of me to forget a couple of lines. I blame it on the drink. Although I somehow now remember that maybe we celebrated Halloween twice?The other pictures depict us heading back to London at a rest-stop on the motorway. Notice the tired faces.
Hope you enjoy the pictures & maybe it will give you some inspiration for this one coming!
x x
jeff
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