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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2005-01-07 02:57 pm

Don't blame it on sunshine

It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!

Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk. I'll be endeavouring to fill this gap some Fridays this year.

I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be one of the tunes which make me smile, and which have at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.

Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.

The link will expire when I leave work this evening. If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.

Today, you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Dogs Die in Hot Cats - Godhopping

I very much recommend the album from which it comes, Please Describe Yourself, as a half hour slice of lightweight, easily-digestible indie pop. It won't change your life, but it might very well make it just a little bit brighter.

Bear in mind that, owing to an unfortunate clerical error, the band tends to get filed as Dogs Die In Hot CaRs in record shops.
triskellian: (cranky)

[personal profile] triskellian 2005-01-07 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Grrr. Not being equipped with headphones or speakers, and possibly not even a sound card, the 'music' that you're subjecting me to is not Dogs Die In Hot Cats, but 'Blame it on the Boogie'. Which is pretty unforgiveable, I'm sure you'll agree.

And for some reason, my supposedly super-fast work connection has slowed to a ridiculous crawl so my attempt to download the track for later enjoyment ain't working either. I clicked the link before I started writing this comment, stopped writing the comment for a bit to have a conversation, and it's still only 16% complete. Damnit.

[identity profile] broadmeadow.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I just can't, I just can't, I just can't control my feet.
triskellian: (cranky)

[personal profile] triskellian 2005-01-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
La la la I'm not listening I can't hear you.

<casts around for alternative; alights on last song playing in car this morning>

I met a girl, she was a frog princess...

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/ 2005-01-07 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Singing: "Don't blame it on the LJ, don't blame it on the venta, blame it on the boogie!"

You love a bit of it.

[identity profile] cardinalsin.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I got exactly the same thing, but hadn't noticed it until the moment you mentioned it.

Aiieee!

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess it's probably a fault at my end, then :(

Don't know why, downloads from my site are usually at least reasonably timely.

[identity profile] cardinalsin.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Naw, I haven't attempted the download yet. I just got that annoying song bimbling through my virtual ear canal.

[identity profile] wimble.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm getting 5.1 k per second, which roughly corresponds with a 56k modem. Of course, I don't know how many people are currently downloading it.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Waah :(

Someone's clearly stolen the server I rent space on, and replaced it with a 486 and a dialup modem :(

[identity profile] broadmeadow.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
It's currently downloading at 2.5Kb/sec here. I _should_ get about 220Kb/sec, so it does seem a tad slow.

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay ! I boogied at my desk !

Good stuff. Almost worth you getting burned at the stake by Blunkett the government for illegal filesharing !
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[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, the cut tag was quoting Anti-Nowhere League :)

[identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't that So What??

Note that I only made that comment to start a punctuation flamewar.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it should, as I realised about one nanosecond after I posted that comment.

"Never mind," I thought, "no one would be so pedantic as to point it out." :)

[identity profile] broadmeadow.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Surely it's perfectly ok to put those two question marks after So What???
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[identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Does Swan recommend the use of gramme, or gram? 'Cos I think the international spelling is the American way rather than the French.

[identity profile] broadmeadow.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the problem may have been that there were _no_ question marks _after_ So what??, for the quote included those question marks. Two question marks after So What?? would be So what????!

[identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
''So what????!''? Now you're just being silly!

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
????!

Four Queries and an Exclamation Mark.

Starring Hugh Grant, Simon Comma and Charlotte Colon.

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2005-01-07 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Or should that be starring Stephen Fry, Julian Clary, Eddie Izzard, Will Young and... uh... some guy called Mark ?