All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces

I'm starting to think I need a tag for promoting stuff by Benjamin Till :) Anyway, his latest project is 100 Faces, which is another short film done with a regional bit of the BBC (northeast, this time).

It's bascially portraits of a hundred people; the first is aged 1, the second is aged 2, and so on up to 100, and most are answering what was important to them in 2012. Most are speaking, some are singing (though I think I vastly prefer the spoken word parts). It's rather beautifully shot in black and white, with the score played by the English Philharmonic Orchestra, and I recommend giving it a watch:

The girls of the 1990s formed an army of belly dancers

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

( You what? )

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.

The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Herman Dune - 1, 2, 3 Apple Tree [mp3 download link expired, YouTube link may still be active]

Today I feel we should be dancing to something appropriate to the end of civilisation - but, er, the only obvious candidate appeared on BAYD years ago. And I don't know what else is good for dancing out the end of the world.

Paradise By The Dashboard Light Part III (Praying For The End Of Time), by Meat Loaf? Maybe not. Art Will Save The World, by Luke Haines? No, that's hardly a floor-filler. If anyone has any decent suggestions for the playlist for the end of days, please trot 'em out and we can dance while the world crumbles around our ears.

But right now, I don't appear to be able to think past REM so instead, we have a nice, gentle, completely non-apocalyptic (and non-Christmassy) track from the quirkily twee Herman Dune. 1, 2, 3 Apple Tree comes from Giant, but if you're new to Herman Dune I'd recommend checking out Not On Top.