Insomnia by Faithless. Live on a 1997 edition of Later… with Jools Holland.
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Missing Believed Wiped / Timeshift (BBC4 / 2003)
Maps, The Mid September Update.
So I’ve added 561 additional map images of Durham from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
And, of course, Durham itself.
Britpop Now (BBC2 /1995)
And here is a mid-90s Britpop-related show. ‘Britpop Now‘ featured performances by Pulp, Blur, Supergrass, Elastica and others – and all with very little filler. Oasis are, however, notably missing.
Continue readingArchive.org’s 911 TV Archive
Sometimes it’s hard to remember the initial panic and horror that surrounded the 9/11 attacks or possibly you were even yet to be born. Either way, Archive.org’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline is a good place to start your understanding what it was like to watch things unfold on that day.
Lithium / Polyphonic Spree
The Polyphonic Spree‘s cover of Nirvana‘s Lithium.
Recent films – Summer 2022
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
Layer Cake
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
Continue readingMap Stuff – Early September 2022 Update
I’ve just added 575 map images of Dorset from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the map project.
Interesting places covered in Dorset update include:
Perseus Galaxy / NASA
The deeply haunting sounds of the Perseus Galaxy‘s pressure waves, pitch shifted from 57 octaves below middle C. Via the NASA News Room.