nutty’s nuggets

It’s a new year so everyone’s trying to predict the big musical acts forthe year. I hate such nonsense myself but as a prelude to my usual year end round-up here’s a few acts I’ve come across lately that stand at best an infinitesimally small chance of making it big but who I really rate. It must also be said that much as I doubt the odds of any of these even achieving big cult status in a world in which Why? is finally lauded as an indie master in the year end round-ups anything is possible. They’re all British - my days as an American Indie Kid are clearly numbered. This is flash heavy, so if you’re reading on facebook or a bad RSS reader, click-through to my site for the videos and other embeds.

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So it’s 2009, we’re just about to send a second mission to Jupiter to find out what happened to the Discovery and human progress marches on. I’m now 27, which feels unbelievably old and mature to be surrounded by so much stuff in my ever student like bedroom. And there’s $70 trillion in the giant pool of money [mp3 here] in the world so we’re building the future ever faster.

Why is it only figures involving cash money that have this nasty habit of going down as well as up?

Anyway, happy new year. I attempted to forecast my future using molten lead [video] and accidentally created Cthulu.

I also indulged in the many years German tradition of watching Dinner For One and drank a fair bit of gin.

Coming up next, my predictions of which bands don’t stand even a small chance of making it big but that I really like from 2008.

The Sinister Snowman wishes you all a Happy Christmas.
I meanwhile am sat wondering how I fell asleep and woke up to notice that I was suddenly 27, why it’s an age that almost calls for an adult approach to life, certainly now that I’m doomed to pay full fare on the trains and tube these are harsh times.

Exciting “where did the year go, exactly?” post to follow. In continued flickr-blogging it would seem my vibrant sunset is liked by a few folk.

Had the largest urban shopping centre in Europe open up just off the top of my road in the past few months. Other than a Waitrose, the only redeeming factor is that it photographs nicely, especially when it’s wet and lit up at night.

View my Westfield set

(and yes, if you’re viewing this on the blog, I have just broken my style sheet, guess I’ll actually finally do a design on here for the new year, for now - apologies).

Further to my recent post on my flickr profile I’ve been hard at work trying to organise and sort my photos. I noticed that I’d got slightly hooked a while back on grabbing letters so I made a set called Alphabet, and submitted a couple of photos to group called One Letter.

Wasn’t expecting this, and am most amused:

Of course, if I can find an E then I can spell theft in my set as well. Though I do like such a creative reuse.