Mike Relm, soooo sick. Especially 'cos it's Barely Political he's remixing!
Jacob Ratcliffe, 16, attending The King's School, Grantham. This blog is an insight to what I think, think about, and enjoy.
Thursday 27 January 2011
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Inspirational, jawdropping, skillful, so many words to describe this
This has been all over Tumblr and Facebook in the last couple of days, and I thought I'd better help spreading it, because it truly deserves to be seen by everyone
The Great British Class Survey
Do you think the class system still exists? If so, what 'class' would you put yourself and other people in? Is the class system still of any worth at all? I myself think it has no worth, and only leads to resentment between and bias against people. I took the LabUK survey (discussed on The One Show this evening [25th January 2011]) to help researchers answer these questions, simply because I want to know if the class system really does still exist in modern day Britain. The experiment takes about 20 minutes and is completely free and anonymous, and to truly answer the aforementioned questions they need as many people as possible to take the survey. It tells you your social, economic and cultural results compared to the rest of the country, and also displays them in graphs for comparison. The final results of the survey will be released later in 201l.
Click here to be part of the experiment.
Friday 21 January 2011
Battle Commanders
Click here for Shane O'Neill's Battle Commander on The Berrics
Click here for Paul Rodriguez's Battle Commander on The Berrics
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Long Live The King
It was Martin Luther King Jr. day on Monday (it's always on the 3rd monday in january), and to further celebrate this fact on LIFE.com they've got 19 galleries, truly covering King's amazing journey towards liberation of Black America. Here are some of my favourites from the demonstration in Washington in August 1963, where 200,000 blacks including King, as well as 50,000 whites, marched on the National Mall in Washington DC (where the giant marble statue of Abraham Lincoln is housed). It was the site of King's "I have a dream" speech, and it has been recognised as the turning point in the advancement of Black Rights.
The photo below was taken on 2nd July 1964, at the signing of the Civil Rights Act, the embodiment of one of the most important successes of the civil rights movement.
The tragic murder of King on April 4th 1968 (less than 4 and a half years after the assassination of President John Kennedy, who vociferously defended black rights) shocked the world, and it cannot be put into words the sorrow men and women alike felt when this horrifying event was made public. The following photos and captions are from LIFE. "On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. They raced to the scene and there, incredibly, had unfettered access to the hotel grounds, Dr. King's room, and the surrounding area. For reasons that have been lost in the intervening years, the photographs taken that night and the next day were never published. Until now."
Dr. King's Friends Console Each Other
Ralph Abernathy and Will D. Campbell, a long-time friend and civil rights activist, embrace in Dr. King's room. "I was documenting a momentous event, and I thought that at any time I was going to be asked to leave, so I did what I could as quickly as I could."
Cleaning His Blood at the Lorraine Motel
Outside of room 306, Theatrice Bailey, the brother of the motel's owner, sweeps blood from the balcony. "I have to tell you, there was no friction with the people there at the Lorraine, even though here was this White man with a camera on the scene."
Alone After Dr. King's Death
Will D. Campbell, alone on the motel balcony, gazing out into the night. "This photograph was probably made almost as soon as we got there, because there were a lot of people milling about in the dark, and then all of a sudden it cleared up. When I saw him standing there, alone, I thought to myself, 'Wow.' This isn't a posed picture. He's in deep pain, standing there by himself, as if asking, 'My God, what has happened here?'"
Monday 17 January 2011
Sunday 16 January 2011
The best Thursday and Friday of the year so far for stuff on a screen
This starts again on January 27th
And this comes out on January 28th
Hyped!
Thursday 13 January 2011
'Run Run Run'
"Run away, be a real man, fight another day. I think I heard that in a TV programme, so it must be right, right?"
Ghostpoet told me that, and it's one of my favourite peices of lyrics. Deals with so many issues in one line.
Ghostpoet told me that, and it's one of my favourite peices of lyrics. Deals with so many issues in one line.
Out February 7th
Monday 10 January 2011
Sunday 9 January 2011
Monday 3 January 2011
Tallest Man On Earth
I first heard 'King of Spain' on the KEXP Song of The Day podcast back in May, and Will Scarborough recently posting it on Facebook reminded me of The Tallest Man On Earth. Admittedly his sound takes a bit of getting used to, but by the end of the first track on his 2010 album 'The Wild Hunt', you should be very much immersed in his melodic acoustic guitar playing and fascinating lyrics. Highlights for me include the encouraging and upbeat Troubles Will Be Gone, and King Of Spain, the lyrics of which made me smile. In fact, I'd go as far as to compare him to Bob Dylan!
Sunday 2 January 2011
Gentleman's Quarterly
I'll probably get a subsciption soon! Like a tasteful FHM, this monthly men's lifestyle magazine has very well informed features on style, entertainment, women, sport, culture, and everything else that interests a gentleman. At the moment in the magazine itself they've got a big photo shoot with Rihanna, and on the website everything from "100 best things in the world at the moment", to things you didn't know about Frank Sinatra, to a Jessica Alba photoshoot. Well worth checking out, especially for the "25 manly must haves" and the interview with Iron Man himself, Robert Downie Jnr.
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