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Music: Disco 2000 - Nick Cave

Here's a fact about Nick Cave: he wrote a script for a sequel to Gladiator which was rejected by the studio. He also did a cover of Pulp classic Disco 2000 once upon a time, and you can download it below.

Music: Grass - Animal Collective

Something a bit different to help you through the rest of the week... from the 2005 album Feels.

Andy and Claire get married

The key wedding moments captured on the trusty phone camera.

Church.

Speech.

Cake.

Dance.

Beach.

Music: Harry Patch (In Memory Of) - Radiohead

Harry Patch, who died last month, was one of the last survivors of World War I and Radiohead have released a single in his honour which you can listen to below (all of the lyrics are taken from an interview with the man himself). Visit the Radiohead website to get your hands on the download for £1 and help support the Royal British Legion.

Music: This Momentary - Delphic

Single number two from Delphic - they now have their own Wikipedia page, and some of them used to live on Longhurst Lane.

Books: Life Of Pi - Yann Martel

Yann Martel is in the news today, so it seems a good day to recommend his first book, Life Of Pi, which won the Booker prize in 2003. It tells the story of a shipwrecked boy who makes friends with a tiger called Richard Parker, though the whole tale may or may not be an allegory for something else entirely. Martel's next book, if you'd like to know, will feature a donkey and a howling monkey and may or may not be an allegorical re-telling of the Holocaust.

Photos: New Wine 2009

Adrian Plass.

Catering.

Andy Patrick live.

Music: The City Is At Standstill - Liam Frost And The Slowdown Family

With local boy Liam Frost appearing on the NME website today and with news that his second album will be released soon, there's no better time to plug some of his music. As it's really really good. Here's one of the songs from his debut album for you all to enjoy and tell your friends about.

Music: Songs About Time - The Rentals

Matt Sharp used to be in Weezer until he left to form The Rentals. After a few years off, they've returned with four mini albums called Songs About Time - you can stream Chapter One and Chapter Two (above) from their website now.

Photos: Andy Patrick's stag do in Edale

Andy enjoying his costume a little too much.

Andy unable to catch a sheep.

Causing chaos at the tourist centre.

Afternoon walk.

Dan can't listen to the stag any longer.

Music: It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful - Slow Club

Sheffield songsmiths Slow Club have a new album out this week and this is a song from it. I assume it's a single or something. The NME gave the album 8/10:

Sheffield duo Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson, aka Slow Club, take the opposite route for their debut album, dishing up a mish-mash of folk, country, skiffle and oh-so-cute indie-pop sounds which are far too delicate to need that nasty masculine bass guitar anyway. It’s an approach which won’t be to everyone’s taste – in fact, there’s a certain type of person who’ll hate it. These people – for argument’s sake we’ll call them ‘idiots’ – will doubtless hurl their favourite four-letter word, ‘twee’, at Slow Club as if it were the cause of all the world’s ills, from climate change to Adam Sandler. As I said, these people are idiots.

Click here for the full review. And then rush out to buy the album.

Photos: Chetwyn's birthday photo exclusive

Video: Norwich City v Manchester United, 1992-93 season

Books: The Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger

Following the news that JD Salinger has blocked the publication of an unofficial sequel (click here for the full story), today seems like a good day to recommend The Catcher In The Rye. Follow Holden Caulfield as he wanders through New York - according to some it's still "the defining work on what it is like to be a teenager".

Links: a castle made from paper

Click here to see more photos and close ups.

Links: MyLifeIsAverage

A site celebrating moments of intense averageness - funnier than it sounds. Click here to see more.

Links: Rick Dangerous online

Continuing the retro games theme we started a few posts back, Rick Dangerous is an Indiana Jones-style platform game that many of us had fun playing back in the 1980s. Now you can enjoy shooting enemies and collecting treasure again, thanks to the free online version available here. If you're playing the game for the first time, start off by keeping your finger firmly pressed down on the right arrow key to avoid the rolling boulder...

Photos: Liamo's interactive arts exhibit

Webcams not pictured.

Music: Goddess On A Hiway - Mercury Rev

I never quite understood why they did two videos for this song, but I think I like the fishing trip one best.

Links: the return of Monkey Island

Monkey Island 2 was the first game I ever bought for my PC, back in the days when hard drives were 40MB in size and a good screen resolution was 320x200. It's now regarded as a classic of the adventure game genre thanks to its swashbuckling humour, detailed artwork and broad range of characters. Fans of Guybrush Threepwood's adventures can now start getting excited about a new Monkey Island game, a full nine years after the last one came out - Tales Of Monkey Island will be released in five parts starting next month and you can view the trailer below:

Photos: behind the scenes at Marple carnival

Links: Wild, Unattached Twenties Spent At Work

This article from The Onion sums up the ages of 20-29 pretty well. Next up: 30-39.

Music: Bohemian Rhapsody (live) - Queen

Celebrate the end of the weekend with one of the all-time classics.

Video: Greg as Chuck Walker

Greg does his world famous impression of American tour guide Chuck Walker. Look carefully in the background and you can see the Californian landscape rolling by.

Photos: sorry no new music

Links: the 20 best films this summer

Click here for the Guardian's list of 20 films to watch out for in summer 2009.

Photos: summer 2009

Books: Ulysses - James Joyce

As it's Bloomsday, it's a suitable day to recommend one of the most critically acclaimed and difficult books in the English language, Ulysses. It retells Homer's Odyssey through a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, a Dubliner - the day in question is the 16th of June 1904. From Chapter One Episode Nine:

"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."

Click here to read some quotations taken from Ulysses and here to read the famous stream-of-consciousness monologue that closes the book. If you really want to read it, I'll lend it to you. From the ever useful Wikipedia:

"Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose — full of puns, parodies, and allusions — as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."

Music: Harold T. Wilkins - Fanfarlo

Andy Patrick likes this band... maybe you should too? Especially because their debut album is currently available for $1 (about 63p) here.

Links: The Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2008

Click here to see the very best copyright-free pictures uploaded to Wikipedia (and its related sites) over the last year.

Music: Faster - Manic Street Preachers

As it's a rainy weekend here's some angry self-loathing rock music from Wales' very own Manic Street Preachers. Faster was released in 1994 as the first single from The Holy Bible - their best ever album?

Links: Interview Project

Today is the first day of David Lynch's Interview Project - a series of 121 short interviews with people across America. You can see a new interview every three days for the next year by clicking here.

Books: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone was written in 1868 and - as Wikipedia points out - is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language:

It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre: a large number of suspects, red herrings, an English country house, investigation by talented amateurs, and two police officers who represent the 'local bungler' and the skilled, professional, Scotland Yard detective.

You can read it online or download it for free by clicking here.

Links: Wall-E computer case mod

Very impressive Wall-E case mod... for those 110 steps in full, click here.

Photos: Church car wash

"Please give us some money."

"How do you get the streaks off?"

"I can only stay out for half an hour before I get sunburnt."

Links: Pictures that look Photoshopped but aren't

There's a gallery of them here.

Photos: United Champions again

Photos: Andy Patrick speaks out

Music: No Man Is An Archipelago - British Sea Power

The term "one of the best instrumentals ever" gets thrown around a lot these days in the pubs and bars of Marple - but here the label is deserved. British Sea Power wrote a song called The Great Skua for their album Do You Like Rock Music?. Now they've given it a reworking and a new title for their latest album, a soundtrack to accompany Man Of Aran - yes, the 1934 documentary about the harsh living conditions on the Aran islands near Ireland. Turn up your speakers and have a listen.

Photos: Happ B Birthday

Vic and Chewi usually take forever to upload their pics so in the meantime here's a few photo highlights from Andy B's 24th birthday extravaganza.

Contemplating the night ahead.

B tribute in the Norfolk.

Thumbs up for "quiet May".

"Can I borrow £10 for two Peroni?"

The birthday boy and one of his biggest fans.

Charlie B entertains the crowds.

"How long does it take to run to Piccadilly from here?"

Always time for one more in the Norfolk.

Links: Typography As Art

Some impressive examples - including Thom Yorke - here.

Links: Awkward Family Photos

Pretty much as the name suggests. Click here for some more.

Links: Google Chrome advert

Via the cleverly embedded video above, you can see Google's first ever TV advert, promoting it's Web browser Google Chrome (which you should definitely install straight away if you haven't already done so).

Links: Where are you in the movie?

It's Friday afternoon, must be time for something pointless - visit this website, enter your age and life expectancy, and you'll be told whereabouts in a particular famous movie you're up to. The image above illustrates where I'd be up to if my life was Star Wars. Which it sometimes is.

Music: Andy Patrick

Marple legend Andy Patrick is hoping to release an album, get married and start vicar training in the same year - here's an exclusive behind-the-scenes in-the-studio snippet of music. More here.

Music: Clocks performed by Eric Lewis

Now that's how to play a piano. More on the man here.

Films: The Goonies

The Goonies has everything you could want in a 1980s action-adventure-comedy: a gang of kids vs the mean grown ups, hidden treasure, pirate ghosts, and so on. In honour of Empire magazine's 20th birthday, the whole cast were reunited, including Josh 'Llewelyn Moss' Brolin, Sean 'Sam Gamgee' Astin, director Richard Donner and producer Steven Spielberg - you can read more here.

Music: Despite What You've Been Told - Two Gallants

One of the best tracks from Chewi's favourite Americana alternative folk rock band (who are obviously named after a story in Dubliners).

Photos: Anna and Paul get married

Congratulations... a selection of pictures from the big day.