International Mixtape Project

Sometimes you come across something that makes you have hope for the world. The International Mixtape Project is one of those things. I love the idea of complete strangers across the world being brought together through music, art and creativity.


this month....to massachusetts! www.internationalmixtapeproject.com/ (double cd)
Uploaded by bobby stokes on 17 Oct 07, 5.06PM BST.

From the IMP website:

"What is IMP?

The International Mixtape Project is a growing community of music lovers who exchange homemade compilation tapes and CDs with like minded folks around the globe. Every month, each active IMP member is assigned the name and address of another member somewhere else in the world. The rest is simple: Send an awesome mix...Receive an awesome mix!

Month by month, members build a library of mixtapes and CD-Rs from some of the 1000 IMPers in 30 countries on six continents. Each member also controls a personal webpage within the International Mixtape Project online community. IMPers can update their profiles to match their musical interests, post original tracklists and cover art, comment on the mixes they've received from other IMP members, write blogs, and contribute to featured articles about music and mixtaping."

At the moment I won't be taking part, seeing as most of the music I would want to share is on vinyl and even though I have the technology, I haven't converted any of my vinyl onto cd/mp3 yet. Time to consider getting it done...

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Sleb look-e-likes

Every week Mr O & I go to a local arts centre and play celebrity look-e-likes. It's not the reason why we go there, but it passes the time.

As well as having Simon Cowell, James Nesbitt, Justin Lee-Collins and Cerys Matthews on the payroll there's always plenty of other famous faces to spot.

This week's:

Leslie (the one in the leopard print dressing gown) from the most recent Big Brother
A very young Robert Powell
John Burton-Race celebrity chef
Alex (Sibley?) from a few Big Brothers ago (there was also a picture of him in the lifts in Dan Evans)
Dexter the serial killer
Johnny Vegas in character as Moz in IDEAL
Bill Oddie
The Kirsty half of Kirsty & Phil from Location, Location, Location
Where's Wally (sans stripy hat and jumper)
Joni Mitchell
Yoko Ono
Art Garfunkell
Ross from Friends/Randy from My Name is Earl or (as Mr O would have it) George Michael/George Best
Woody Allen (last week's Sean Locke)
Spike Milligan
Barry Manilow
A fat old Hitler
Quentin Tarentino
Shrek
One half of the bad guys from Home Alone that isn't Joe Pesci

More next week...

Islands within Islands

This is so mind-blowing that I had to draw a diagram to try and understand it.



















Manitoulin Island, in the middle of Lake Huron in Canada, in turn contains Lake Manitou - the largest lake on an island in a lake in the world. But Vulcan Point in the Philippines goes one better: it sits inside Crater Lake, on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal, on the island of Luzon, making it the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in the world.

Quite Interesting - Telegraph

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Cute Overload! :)

Cute Overload! :)

I love cute overload. I can't get enough of it. You'll know when I'm on there because you'll hear me 'awwwing' at every adorable clip and picture. Cute overload is good for the soul.

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People who look like their pets

BBC news

Image change

Shameless (see last 'post') has been and gone ages ago. It's not the same without Kev & Veronica and barking mad Sheila. Frank didn't have as many rambling monologues like he used to. It was still funny and I loved the psycho family squatting next door. I think they may stop at the 4th series though - the clue being the Take That song and dance number at the end. Its ending was in complete contrast to the 1st series, which was refreshingly hyper-realistic (I lived on, what is widely considered as, a 'rough' Council estate for 10 years, so I have first hand knowledge of the environment it was portraying). I'll miss it, but I think it's time to bow out and for Channel4 to comission something new & exciting, or bring back Teachers.

I thought it was time for an image change on my blog. Not bad, but Blogger should give you a wider choice of templates, because I'm still not entirely happy with it. I will also endevour to update my blog more often, it was full of tumbleweed when I checked in today.

Time to leave the computer for now, because the headache monster is beckoning and looking at a screen for too long makes him angry.

Shameless

Looking forward to the new series tomorrow.