Chavs and Iranian Radio
I've been listening to Iranian Radio on iTunes, and I've heard a couple tracks by Leila Forouhar which have seemed good, if cheesy at times. May I suggest "Hamsafar" for next Christmas?
And since I like to think of my blog as both an entertaining light read and a resource, I'd like to state that the film "Night Watch," which is released today, seems rather promising. It's a vampire film taking place in Moscow. Watch the trailer here in magnificent HD (forewarning to be patient to those with slower connections.)
And since I've now begun today's post by recommending two things I haven't actually heard/seen, here's one that I have. Charlie Wadhams has a pretty great song up on his Myspace page. I think he shows promise. And for those of you that are LA-based, it looks like he's playing at Tangier fairly regularly. Dates are on the aforementioned page.
And as far as the Arctic Monkeys are concerned, I like a few of their songs, but I'm not as impressed as I hoped to be. I do like the line "trackie bottoms tucked in socks" a lot though. Quiz of the day: is trackie bottoms tucked in socks a pikey thing or a chav thing? For those who don't know about chavs, here's one person's descriptions of them, taken from urbandictionary.com:
"chav stands for council house and violence. Most chaves have in the region of 50-60 siblings and about 100 step brothers and sisters. Bye the age of 15, chavs have had atleast 20 kids with 20 different people. there voice hasnt broken untill they are 22 and yet they still claim to be able to "smash 'ur f*ckin face in" whenever you look at them. They start un-provocked attacks and drive vauxhall nova's with stolen wheels"
If chav really does stand for "council house and violence" that's news to me. It's a great word either way though. No offense to any of my chav readers, of course.
In other news, I have a promising job lead. I'll be spending the weekend learning a couple of design programs like Adobe Illustrator and getting paid to do it! More details on that as it develops (I wouldn't want to give away too much at one time.)
I'm also headed to the UK on Monday night. Looking forward to some blustery winds and chilling drizzle. I'm not even kidding. Experienced a week at a time, that British winter weather can be kind of pleasant.
Here we had rain in the afternoon for the first time in a long while. It's been a long time since I remember it raining. Now outside everything smells like fresh wet plant life. Lovely!
Next post, there'll be some desert photos, I promise.
And since I like to think of my blog as both an entertaining light read and a resource, I'd like to state that the film "Night Watch," which is released today, seems rather promising. It's a vampire film taking place in Moscow. Watch the trailer here in magnificent HD (forewarning to be patient to those with slower connections.)
And since I've now begun today's post by recommending two things I haven't actually heard/seen, here's one that I have. Charlie Wadhams has a pretty great song up on his Myspace page. I think he shows promise. And for those of you that are LA-based, it looks like he's playing at Tangier fairly regularly. Dates are on the aforementioned page.
And as far as the Arctic Monkeys are concerned, I like a few of their songs, but I'm not as impressed as I hoped to be. I do like the line "trackie bottoms tucked in socks" a lot though. Quiz of the day: is trackie bottoms tucked in socks a pikey thing or a chav thing? For those who don't know about chavs, here's one person's descriptions of them, taken from urbandictionary.com:
"chav stands for council house and violence. Most chaves have in the region of 50-60 siblings and about 100 step brothers and sisters. Bye the age of 15, chavs have had atleast 20 kids with 20 different people. there voice hasnt broken untill they are 22 and yet they still claim to be able to "smash 'ur f*ckin face in" whenever you look at them. They start un-provocked attacks and drive vauxhall nova's with stolen wheels"
If chav really does stand for "council house and violence" that's news to me. It's a great word either way though. No offense to any of my chav readers, of course.
In other news, I have a promising job lead. I'll be spending the weekend learning a couple of design programs like Adobe Illustrator and getting paid to do it! More details on that as it develops (I wouldn't want to give away too much at one time.)
I'm also headed to the UK on Monday night. Looking forward to some blustery winds and chilling drizzle. I'm not even kidding. Experienced a week at a time, that British winter weather can be kind of pleasant.
Here we had rain in the afternoon for the first time in a long while. It's been a long time since I remember it raining. Now outside everything smells like fresh wet plant life. Lovely!
Next post, there'll be some desert photos, I promise.
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