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Weekend Links

For the first time in ages, here is my recommending weekend reading list presented on time for you to actually read at the weekend.

Enjoy.

Retro Happenings

It is said that bad thing come in threes, however this is mostly said by superstitious people so I usually just ignore them. What I do know for sure, is that, recently Retro things come in threes.

First of all Tonight the lovely Anna Black is returning to the air waves (or the Internet waves, although air waves is still valid for Wi-Fi, I guess) on Slay Radio with the Anna Black – Anorak  

Secondly Thermostatic’s concent from Wonderland’s Summer Festival Season Warm Up at Storan in Gothenburg, Sweden will be played live on SceneSat radio.  Thermostatic are a favourite of mine and are  known for their SID-packed blip-blop sound with smooth female vocals

And finally Stone Oakvalley, the people who brought us the Stone Oakvalley’s Authentic SID Collection (SOASC) an amazing collection of MP3 Archive (154473 files) of music recorded from real C64s (6581R2, 6581R4 & 8580R5), and now bring us the Stone Oakvalley’s Amiga Music Collection(SOAMC=) project the world’s largest archive of authentic Commodore Amiga music! It’s 115342 MP3 tunes based on 157 different Amiga formats giving a total playtime of 196 days. Here’s a preview video;

Some links for the… week.

I haven’t done one of  these for a while, so here are the bits of the internet that caught my eye in the last few weeks.

Father’s Day

Happy Father’s day all. The boy got me a rather cool Commodore T-shirt and Mug. Check out the photo below, but excuse the hair.

Transformers 2 will suck and you’re an idiot if you think otherwise.

Transformers 2 opens tomorrow, but balls to paying to see that rubbish just so I can review it for you.

Here’s my review of Micheal Bay’s first Transformers movie. I can’t imagine this film is going to be any different, since it’s still got the same idiot writers and the same terrible director. So if you enjoy terrible dialogue, poorly shot actions sequences, lots of uninteresting throwaway human characters, racism, over the top American Jingoism, no character development, blatant product placement, terrible Transformer designs, and have an unhealthy obsessions with Megan Fox, then you should go and see it.

Screw New Year Resolution Updates

You know I’m sure you are sick of reading about how much I have repeatedly failed making any progress towards my New Year Resolution month after month as much I am sick of telling you about. So here is my last post of the year on that subject.

If I was to say the update for May and for the rest of the year could be summed up in one word, I’m sure it will not surprise you if that word was Fail which it obviously is.

So now I’m finished with my new years resolutions I really must start Project Awesome because I’m only happy when I’m setting unrealistic goals for myself.

I’m sure you are looking forward to reading about that.