Bzangy Groink

Year: 2010

  • Albums Of The Year 2010

    Another bonzer year for new music, had to whittle 75+ albums into this top 40. So, as usual, even though there is an order, just to be on here means the album is a winner and you should buy it. The band names are links to Last.fm so you can actually hear them. Get clicking!…

  • US Kills 18 Pakistanis In Terrorist Attack, Doesn’t Make The News

    Above is a screengrab from the BBC News website. Notice no mention of the fact that the USA murdered 18 Pakistanis in a terrorist drone attack: Missiles fired by a suspected US drone have struck a vehicle in north-west Pakistan killing at least 18 militants, officials say. The strike took place in Mir Ali village,…

  • Obama’s Murderous Hypocrisy

    US President Barack Obama has condemned as “outrageous” Saturday’s deadly suicide bomb attack on a town in north-western Pakistan. A female bomber killed at least 43 people in the attack on a large crowd receiving food aid in Khar in the Bajaur region. (Source: BBC News) But the hundreds upon hundreds of innocent Pakistanis that…

  • About.me

    Yet another website? Ah, go on! Here’s my About.me! 😀

  • Please Let Me Sleep

    Please, let me sleep, That’s all I want, To switch this all off, To make the noise stop. To cut the circles, The cycles, the eyelets, This treadmill of being. There’s no pleasure here, No comfort, no warmth, No home, no you. Pretend, so we keep The show on the road, The audience amused. Or…

  • ‘Cut Out My Heart’ Single On iTunes!

    As of today, you can buy my new single on iTunes. And CD Baby! And, soon, hopefully loads more sites. Ooh, this is exciting. First time I’ve ever released a digital-only single. 🙂

  • Contemporary Sociolinguistic Observations

    I may never be Peter Trudgill but I’ll have a bloody go. RANDOM – in observations over the past eighteen months, it would appear that in the 16 – 25 age group, random has now totally transitioned from being an adjective to a noun. Thus: “She was getting with a random bloke.” Has become the…

  • Markeaton With Rose

  • Uni Lights

  • My Pummelvision

    Pretty freaky! There’s a bit too much emphasis on clubbing and less on the boring parts of my life since I don’t take hundreds of pics of when I’m just sitting around watching the telly. 🙂 Make your own at pummelvision.com! 😀

  • -13 Degrees At Derby Uni

  • YouTube: Americans Murdering Iraqis

    You wouldn’t be seeing this video without Wikileaks. This is what the US propaganda machine wants to keep away from your sensitive eyes: the slaughter of innocents by US forces. Those 1.2 million dead Iraqis – who did you think killed them? Car-bombers? “Sectarian” clashes? Or perhaps the most powerful and predatory military superpower in…

  • My Snowy Garden

    Woke up to yet more snow. It was coming down in huge flurries, snowflakes the size of 50p pieces. Yummy! Click the pic for more!

  • Oakwood Winter Wonderland

    Snow has flumped across the UK and yesterday it cosied up to Derby. I nearly crashed three times while I was driving home from the hospital last night. This morning, I looked out and everything in my garden appeared to be wearing white, velvety top hats. As much as I hate the snow for leading…

  • Words = Shit

    Words = shit, Words mean nothing, Words != truth or now or what you feel, Or what you will feel. They’re easy and common, Thrown around bedrooms, Battered by misuse, Until they bleed to death. Garbled intimacies, Terrible promises, Hopeful even as they’re Strangled by phones. Their meaning beaten out of them By their careless…

  • Kell Night Wood

    Tonight, my mate Kell came round and we had a chance to explore the lighting I used on the video for ‘Cut Out My Heart’ in stills. Click the pic to see more! I think I’m really going to miss sodium lighting when it’s all been replaced by the modern, white light equivalents. I love…

  • Oakwood In The Snow In The Night

  • The Mincer

    You’re glowing blue again, Neon orgone, basking, stretching, And every atom Of every molecule Of every cell I love. Although his kisses are still on you, I know you want to be here, Little death, swearing, running, Tearing through clothes, Tearing through skin, Until we are naked. Anxious, Desperate, Bone grating on bone, Sweat and…

  • ‘Cut Out My Heart’ Stills

    Click any of the pics to see some stills from the video shoot I did for my new song, ‘Cut Out My Heart.’ Looking at them, I think need to explore night-time portraiture more, looks pretty cool! 🙂

  • New Video And Song – ‘Cut Out My Heart’

    Hello! Although I’ve been doing a lot of moping and licking my wounds, I’ve also been busy with music. And video! Check out what I’ve been up to: I shot the vid on my lovely 5Dmk 2 and finished the edit (in iMovie) this Monday night, around 3.30am. So, it’s hot off the… er… Mac…

  • Apple Going Crapple – iPhoto 9.1 Breakgrade

    Look, I’m an Apple whore. Well, inasmuch as a whore pays to get fucked by someone, that is. Perhaps I’m a reverse whore? I’m typing this on a 12-core Mac Pro, I have an 8-core MP in my studio, a Macbook for DJing, iPhone 4, iPad… it’s quite scary how much of my earnings I’ve…

  • Solo Fireworks

    I’m happy to be In the glow of this bonfire I’m happy to be Surrounded and enfolded, invisible in the crowd I’m happy to be Alone Though all of the above is obviously a lie I could have come here with friends But I didn’t I could have met friends that were here But I…

  • Nat B&W

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  • Laid Low By A Word

  • Two Years Ago Today

    Two years ago today, I was pushed off a cliff. The person who shoved me was the person I’ve loved most in my life, the woman who has loved me the most and the girl I’m still in love with now. Since then, I’ve been falling and failing and flailing. I’ve reached out to people…

  • Metameta

    Hmm… my views per day seems to have increased by nearly a hundred lately. What’s that about? Also good to see ‘pugs not drugs‘ in recent searches. And being a top-read article. Though it’s got a way to go before it usurps the laptop DJing article. Umm… the Ethernet one is a bit embarrassing since…

  • US Terrorist Attack Kills Eleven

    At least 11 suspected militants have been killed in drone strikes in north-west Pakistan in the past 24 hours, local officials say. Officials say planes fired two missiles into a militant compound in North Waziristan early on Thursday, killing at least five people. And up to six militants were killed in strikes in the area…

  • Private Corporation Re-Writes New Zealand’s Laws

    New Zealand’s parliament has passed legislation that will keep the production of two Hobbit films in the country. The government agreed to amend labour laws as part of a deal with Warner Bros to retain the $500m (£315m) project. Warner had threatened to move production elsewhere because of a dispute with acting unions. But the…

  • Somatic Reactions

    I drop my Mum off at hers after we get back from the hospital. Going to the end of the road, I switch my stereo on. It’s been off the entire journey back from Nottingham because she moans at any SPL over inaudible. I’d rather listen to nothing than listen to castrated music. The first…

  • On Love Too

    It’s a click and a whirr, a gentle tick as the final piece slots into place. You’re in love. You didn’t want to be. You tried your best not to be. You even thought of every single negative quality she had to try to stop yourself from yet another swan dive into broken glass. But…

  • New Books 26/10/10

    Love the Nova War series. Reminds me of old Banks. Egan has been one of my fave writers for years. He’s consistently made my brain hurt. Hope this is as good! A fabulous voice. A couple of lines in her last novel in this series had me in tears. Very powerful. This one’s for Uni,…

  • Sunny Autumn, Derby Uni

    Things haven’t been good lately. In fact, they’ve been shit. But even at this horrible time, the beauty of nature amazes me. I had to hand in my proposal for ethnographic research today at Uni and I took the time to take some pics. Click any pic to see more.

  • Hot Chocolate Foam Patterns Left Inside Mug

  • Sunny October 2010

    It was a crisply sunny morning. I love the colours this time of year, the sun low in the sky. Click the pic for a little gallery.

  • Infra Red Trees

    Just some experiments with the highest ISO on my 5D mk2 (hence the fuzziness) and a Hoya R72 IR filter. I quite like the look and the high ISO means they were grabbed handheld. Might try some with a tripod and slightly lower, less fuzzy ISOs

  • Nat, Sean & Two Unis

    Last Monday I went to pick my mate Nat up from her very picturesque Uni. It’s Notts Uni, the Sutton Bonington campus. I’m quite glad it’s not my Uni as I’d probably get now work done, there’s far too much beauty in the area! And bunnies everywhere! I got Nat to pose for a few…

  • Sunny Five Lamps

    I have a special love for end-of-year sunshine. The sun is low in the sky and seems to super-saturate the landscape. The sky is blue and empty of everything but blue, impossibly electric. My shadow flicks along the pavement in front of me and slides up the front of shops and galleries, looking for a…

  • Hemsby

    Hemsby, Seals waving at us in Blakeney, Hugging you and watching the millennium arrive, In a blaze of fireworks and kisses… Wrecked car stereo, walking round UEA with you, Holding hands in Castle Mall… Early morning fog, freezing house but warm hugs, Is there anyone under 80 in Cringleford? Then we went to get your…

  • Bzangy Groink 29/9/10

    Tonight’s best new track was ‘Crazy For You’ by Best Coast. One minute and fifty seconds of swoonsome delight, this track comes from a similarly languid and sun-drenched album. Check it out! The best old track was Marching Band‘s ‘For Your Love.’ God, what a perfect, catchy pop song! Breezy splendour. The Vaselines – Such…

  • 10/10/10 Derby Nightness

    And after the unreasonably unseasonal sunshiney antics of the day came a warm, smooth night. A night for frogs and boyracers. Click the pic for more!

  • 10/10/10, A Sunny October Day In Derby

    The sun made an unexpected return today, like a lover who’s forgotten her phone and just popped back to get it. She’ll be gone soon but on the way out, the kiss she leaves you with is both warm consolation and a promise of next year, when she can visit for longer. Click the pic…

  • US Kills Seven Pakistanis

    At least seven people have been killed in a missile strike in north-west Pakistan, security officials say. Unconfirmed reports said a US drone fired four missiles at a compound in North Waziristan and two cars parked outside were destroyed. In a separate development, a key border crossing used by Nato to move supplies into Afghanistan…

  • US Kills 9 More In Missile Attacks

    At least nine militants have been killed in two drone attacks in Pakistan’s north-western tribal area. The attacks bring the total drone strikes to 25 in the past 29 days, part of an apparent crackdown on insurgents on the border. At least 150 people, militants and civilians, have died in these strikes. (Source: BBC News)…

  • Everything Everything @ The Bodega, Nottingham, 1/10/2010

    (Click any of the pics for more!) Last night, I saw one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen in my life. I think I first got taken to a gig by my Dad, when I was around 14 or so. It was Gordon Giltrap and he rocked. So, I’ve got around thirty years of…

  • Nat & The Ladybird

    Around three weeks ago, when it was still magnificently sunny, my mate Nat came round and we had a macro photo day. We started off primly, with the humble 50mm macro which took the pic above. I love the 50mm for its naturalness, it’s easy to forget it’s a macro. And then it’s wonderful to…

  • Infected By Everything Everything

    Puppies, you need to read this and this… (Or at least skim them if you already know about basic memetics. Or just can’t be arsed reading a lot.) Well, here’s my latest infection. It’s the song ‘MY KZ, UR BF’ by the band Everything Everything. This time the infection set in over the course of…

  • Bzangy Groink Playlist 15/9/10

    Another very, very busy night with loads of requests, good good! The best new tune was ‘MY KZ, UR BF’ by Everything Everything. Really, this isn’t the right place to go into how much I love this song. It’s… magical. Maybe I’ll write about it more here, maybe not! The album reminds me of XTC…

  • Kaypea, Wood, Wheat, Sky

    Last weekend, my physicist friend Kaypea came to stay. We had beautiful conversations about the immense and the infinitesimal, the ultimate and the trivial. It was all severely, severely cool. Like… yeah. The last couple of years, I’ve made a conscious effort to reach out and connect more with people. Sometimes, this has gone very…

  • Lost Picnic With Nat

  • Coffeeing