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Monday, February 8th, 2010

The reason I settled on Call It Collect as title for my burgeoning blog stems from two sources. The first being three words written in the sleeve notes to Gil Scott Heron’s 1994 album Spirits. When asked what he called his sound he answered “I call it mine, I call it collect”. This stood out to me, and made me think of that Jim Jarmusch quote that has adorned a thousand MacBook desktops.

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination”

On that note I shall now patently steal a regular section from a blog I find myself checking on a daily basis. The blog is the incredi-twee “For Me, For You” – a beautifully presented and personal blog used to promote it’s creators jewellery line. She also runs a weekly feature entitled ‘Bits From My Weekend’, a series of photographs that capture the mood of her two sacred days.

Here is mine.

I Feel Happy

Matt Streak

Scales

Just Chilling

Burnt Custard

Hot Salt Beef

The Milk Bar

Shiner

God of War III

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

God of War Teaser

I seem to be stuck in a slight rut in the gaming world at the moment. If you look closely and squint your eyes, you’ll notice the rut looks exactly like the words MODERN WARFARE II. I’m sorry, I just can’t see myself not playing this game each time I reach for my controller and hear the choral sweep of my playstation starting up. It’s getting quite bad now, I’m youtubing videos for advice, I put in money to purchase a copy for our office, hell, I even swapped in loads of moribund stuff I never play anymore (Wii games) for a copy for my XBOX (just so I could play against those playing from my office)

I have Assassin’s Creed II, some tell me it’s good … I wouldn’t know, I just haven’t played it, I wouldn’t be able to, knowing full well that I am just about to unlock the extra mag attachment for the M16A4 semi-automatic assault rifle. I’m actually scared to purchase Bioshock II for this exact reason.

One game however, that I really hope will cut through fug of simulated modern combat is God of War III … seen here in this great teaser advert*. Rumour has it that 7-Eleven will be releasing a limited edition slurpee drink called “Kratos Fury” which, apparently blends blackberries and frosty lime….sounds great, but being from England, I have no fucking clue what this means.

*click image for full size version

…that was the week that was

Friday, January 29th, 2010

White Paint

Many thanks to Pinglewood for sending me the now infamous Die Antwoord link, and also to Abeano for describing them as ‘three rejects from a Chris Cunningham video casting’





Craig

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

I’m going to start doing this, but half as long and not as funny.

Craig

Glögg Saturday

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Today we went on a journey to buy supplies for a pre-christmas Swedish get together we’re planning (you’re not invited). The main ingredient, the jewel in the crown was Glögg, a mulled wine style drink that not only gets you drunk, but warms the cockles of your heart as well. We rode out bikes. We got wet. We headed for the Scandinavian Kitchen on Great Titchfield Street, a vibrant and friendly cafe that doubles as a grocery shop for both locals and homesick Scandinavians.

The pros … They played Metallica renditions of christmas songs and I write this ripped to the tits on Glögg.

The cons… the staff wore t-shirts that read ‘Herring a Good Day?’

King

PJBike

Queen

SquishBike

Kitchen

Herring

PJGlog

meal

SquishMouth

Abba

Odin

SvenErics

Thomas

Photographs taken using an iPhone application called ‘Shake It’.