What better way to celebrate Tus' upcoming wedding than with a weekend in Tenerife? You can find more shots of the scenery and general chaos on Flickr here.
Enjoying the weather.
Enjoying the views.
Enjoying the free* beer.
Enjoying the strip.
Enjoying the cage dancing.
Enjoying being nearly 30.
Enjoying the watered-down cocktails.
Enjoying mingling with hen nights.
Enjoying long walks by the beach.
* All-inclusive.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have returned with a new album called It's Blitz. Brighten up your Tuesday with the opening track Zero:
The new Doves album is out next week and here's the first single - a sad man drives to Blackpool to scatter some ashes is the main gist I think.
Summer hasn't arrived yet, but once it's over, one way of escaping the cold will be to go to the cinema and watch Where The Wild Things Are. Based on a well-known children's book that's 10 lines long, it's directed by Spike Jonze, and partly written by Dave Eggers. Click here for some Wikipedia info, here to read the latest news on the movie from Empire, and here to buy a very good book by the aforementioned Dave Eggers.
The subject of privacy-related law suits in the USA (see here), Google's 360-degree photographic Street View is now included as part of Google Maps. 25 British cities are covered, including Manchester - you can walk right up to 5th Ave, but it's closed. To see the images, drag the little orange man down into the map.
Some dark mumbly indie rock music from The National - this single is from the 2007 album Boxer.
"You are about the worst tourist in the whole world."
As luck would have it, this appeared on Sky Movies in the same week that Chewi recommended it. And it's quite enjoyable as well, in a darkly comic way - maybe because it's based on The Dumb Waiter by the darkly comic Harold Pinter. IMDB
Jimbo awake, Player asleep.
Teen at the bar 2009
The Nolan sisters.
Charlie B enjoys his birthday bash.
A droodle is a combination of a doodle and a riddle - so, for example, the above droodle shows a spider enjoying his favourite movie. For more pictures along similar lines visit the Droodle Archive.
Here's the song after which this blog was named - as R.E.M. experts will know, it's Michael Stipe singing the sleeve notes from a gospel choir album, over the top of the backing track to 7 Chinese Bros.
Click here to see a list of the top ten most often covered songs ever. There are plenty of other recommendations in the comments. You might also want to listen to Mates of State covering California aka The OC theme tune:
