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The biggest funky tune right now

Peeps have been telling me about this “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” funky tune for a while. I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure out what they meant until I did a search on the interweb today and found it. It’s had 1.5 million YouTube hits…

Ugandan dancehall and the Ghetto Republic of Uganja

This week’s Scene and Heard for the Guardian music blog is on the Ugandan dancehall scene and the breakaway republic that dancehall collective Fire Base Crew has formed in a slum in the country’s capital, Kampala. Below are some words regarding this to…

The worst, weirdest and most useless Christmas presents I got this year

The crushing reality of Christmas has hit me once again. Bare witness to the full horror here.

Some more lists

I don’t think the world has seen enough lists this year, so just before the death knell sounds for 2008, I am putting up some more.JACK FROM FRIENDLY FIRES’ TOP FIVE THINGS HE REGRETS SAYING TO TINCHY STRYDER WHILE ON TOUR WITH THE DIMINUTIVE GRIME MC5…

Streetwise

I am in search of a DVD copy of a documentary about a group of teenagers in Seattle called Streetwise. If you have a DVD-R of it that you could send me, please get in contact.