the teenagers - homecoming

May 16th, 2008

Friday! Please check this song from The Teenagers (great French band) out!

I know is a bit rude for girls but such an awesome vintage video deserve by far to be at frucomerci.com

Enjoy!

when rock & roll was played with a cig! by pilun

May 15th, 2008

How do you do!

Another quite day at work so I am going to drop this little post! I was watching some Neil Young videos on youtube and somehow it has come to my mind this brilliant cover to the Rolling Stone’s Wild Horses played by Guns & Roses in Paris. I love today’s music but I have got a bit nostalgic watching this video. I just wanted to share this with you and point out a couple of things:

- How cool was the 90’s rock & roll look! Get away all that EMO thing and bring me back the alcoholic and trouble making Rock Star dress with leather pants and cowboy boots.

- The best times for rock and roll finished when guitar players stop smoking while they were playing.


All the best and enjoy the afternoon!

bad day

May 15th, 2008

This little animal is called the Naked Mole-Rat and is from Africa.

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So if you are having a bad day and feeling sorry for yourself, remember:?

You could look like a dick with buck teeth.

don’t call me pilun, call me slater

May 15th, 2008

How do you do,

Here I am again. I don’t know much about surf but I have always thought there are only 3 kinds of surfers. Those who surf to get girls, those who like being in the beach getting a nice body and those who are f@cking nuts and really love it. This guy is definitely in the third kind. This is a terrific video including the song (isolate by bender)! Enjoy it but if your job is similar to mine (working in front of a laptop) you are going to feel pretty miserable watching this!

All the best,

Pilun

46 signs that you’ve been in London too long - by pilun

May 14th, 2008

Hiya!

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Here is some find e-mail that a bloke from my job sent to me! I feel identified by 44 of these signs! Maybe I have been here for too long,

  • 1. You don’t even bother looking out of the window when you get up in the morning to check what the day is like. You know it is OVERCAST
  • 2. You believe that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all good nights for drinking. Sunday day is also entirely reasonable.
  • 3. You can’t remember what ‘customer service’ means.
  • 4. After a big night out you find yourself in a Curry house and not a 24 hour McDonalds.
  • 5. You start to accept queuing as a way of life.
  • 6. More than three hours sunlight on summer days seems excessive.
  • 7. You have memorised the bus route home and manage to get back every time even when you’re half conscious half drunk beyond the edge of reason.
  • 8. You don’t think twice about buying a packaged sandwich.
  • 9. A sunny lunchtime means searching for a patch of grass and stripping off practically down to your underwear.
  • 10. You feel utterly lost if you’re not within 10 mins of a Tesco/Sainsbury’s Local
  • 11. You think £40 for a haircut is quite reasonable.
  • 12. You finish every sentence with “Cheers”, and start every conversation with Hiya.
  • 13. You only just realise you have lost your sunglasses - you left them in Greece 2 summers ago.
  • 14. You start thinking English cuisine isn’t all that bad after all, I mean, it’s hard to beat a full English breakfast.
  • 15. You are on to your 6th umbrella and your second overcoat.
  • 16. You buy a disposable baby BBQ from Argos.
  • 17. You realise your sunscreen is the stuff you originally brought from home with you…..yes that is Midlands postcode on the price label.
  • 18. A day at the beach means wearing the warmest clothes you own while standing on golf ball-size pebbles and the thought of swimming doesn’t even enter your head.
  • 19. You actually say, “Sor’ed” or “it’s all gone a bit pear shaped”.
  • 20. Seeing men wearing a suit in a pub is relatively normal.
  • 21. You have given up complaining about the Victorian-like banking services offered, being in a line for an entire lunch break is now just acceptable.
  • 22. You have given up explaining why you are half an hour late as no-one notices or even cares. In fact - you may even pop into Prêt a Manger for a hot drink and some breakfast first.
  • 23. Coming to work with a hangover is entirely accepted and indeed expected at least once a week following cheapskates.
  • 24. You snigger at the price when you buy a round whilst visiting mates in other cities.
  • 25. Your family tells you you have a Southern twang and you say “naah I’ve alwiss talked like thist”
  • 26. £1.50 for 3 bus stops seems reasonable.
  • 27. The ink from your oyster card has begun to blend with your skin, yes your palm is NOT supposed to be blue.
  • 28. £300,000 is an acceptable price for a box room above a newsagents.
  • 29. Unsolicited friendliness from strangers is met with you looking directly at the floor, cos let’s face it, they’re either going to ask you for money or tell you about God.
  • 30. You’ve become accustomed to the clipboard crew slalom on the high street and now you’re ducking and diving past the chuggers like a pro without an ounce of eye contact.
  • 31. you expect 15% gratuity to be automatically added when your bill is delivered to your table, after all it’s not up to you to decide whether the staff have earned it
  • 32. You begin to pack summer clothes for the tube journey and a suit & raincoat for a quick change in the Westminster public loos
  • 33. You know the Underground replacement bus service drivers by name and shift
  • 34. The bloke sitting across from you on the tube seems strangely familiar, yet you wonder when did you start using words like “bloke” and why does “tube” seem like a normal word for a train?
  • 35. Everyone past of the Watford gap to your belief is northerner.
  • 36. You refer to area’s by postcode and actually understand where W1 and SW6 is.
  • 37. When a child asks where’s the river, you use an Underground Map as an accurate representation.
  • 38. You don’t venture past your own zone and zone 1 if your feeling adventurous.
  • 39. you dial ‘9′ for an outside line, even when calling from home!
  • 40. When you can’t hear sirens in the background you think….its quiet…too quiet
  • 41. You only receive half of your birthday cards and none that were supposed to contain cash.
  • 42. You expect an attendant to be waiting in the bathroom with perfume, deodorant and hand towels
  • 43. You happily pay £70 per month to walk on a treadmill instead of walk to work.
  • 44. It’s normal to barge your way through a sea of people a tube station, bump people out of the way and not say sorry once all without your eye contact deviating from the ticket gate.
  • 45. You know a quicker way to your destination than the cab is taking you.
  • 46. You are surprised when out-of-towners have no idea how to use the tube, yet National Rail, Thameslink and Virgin Trains loses you completely.

Cheers,

Pilun

worldwide telescope

May 14th, 2008

WOW!!!

Thanks to Nina I have read this article telling that a free software (the result of several years of hard labour by a small team at Microsoft Research) has been launched today and will effectively turn every computer that downloads it into a mini-planetarium capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies.

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The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.”

I am going to play aroud right now!! Or should I say when I arrive home? ;)

thanks Nina!

crazy japanese train loaders - by pilun

May 14th, 2008

Morning,

I have heard serveral times about the train loaders that push people in the tube in Japan but I had never imagined something so funny! I would never get in on of those trains. Somehow, london underground looks a lot nicer to me now!


Hasta la vista,

Pilun

its credit and its crunchy

May 13th, 2008

LoL! I couldn’t stop laughing watching this video!


This guys of Bremner, Bird and Fortune rock!

irish music - by pilun

May 12th, 2008

Hi there,


I love this Magners commercial that you can see in the Uk tv where they play this amazing Irish music. As I am not very busy at work lately, thanks credit crunch, I have put a bit of time in finding a good piece of Irish music. This is what I have found! I love it. Good peace of positive music. You can’t be sad with this music sounding around you! You can’t be sober with someone playing this at your pub!

Take Care

Pilun

evolution of dance

May 10th, 2008

Here we are, still tipsy from last night , my ex-eternal-and-missed-flatmate and me, in the terrace having some beers and a great time watching videos…


This is the perfect example about what we did last night and are going to do tonight…

Hope you enjoy it, have a nice weekend, I am sure I am going to :)

free beer

May 9th, 2008

Do you fancy a beer? what about a FREE one? better isn’t it?

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Picture from flickr

This would be awesome for me, I’m used to have at least half paint a day (this one is in the lunch daily menu) and some more during the weekend (starting on Tuesday and until Sunday), I am sorry but I don’t find water very tasty :)

Damn! Just read the definition at the website:
Free Beer is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer”

I think I am going to keep drinking my favorite one then: free beer for geeks

Now we are talking about beer, here it go a one important question I have read at rstevens twitter two secs ago: “Guinness and bacon count as a salad, right?”

tit monday - london 2008

May 6th, 2008

Even though it’s Tuesday (yesterday was a day off in UK). Welcome London’s Tit Monday!!!

“Monday is that special day in the year when, for the first time, the temperature rises above that magical point which causes girls getting dressed in the morning to decide to show a bit of skin.”

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“Ah, Tit Monday. It’s not that far off now, that glorious day when, heading into work on the bus, or walking to the Tube, or sitting on the train, you find yourself suddenly chirpier than you have been in months. You find yourself smiling at strangers again. There is a mild involuntary tumescence in your trousers that comes and goes throughout the morning with the comforting regularity of a heartbeat. And then you get a text around lunchtime from a mate who says: “At last, Tit Monday!” And you instantly understand why you are so happy. For Tit Monday is that special day in the year when, for the first time, the temperature rises above that magical point which causes girls getting dressed in the morning to decide to show a bit of skin. After months of dull colors and chunky knit, the world’s birds suddenly dive into last summer’s wardrobe (they’ve not had chance to buy this season’s stuff) and chuck it on without a thought. Your urban landscape is suddenly lightened with acres of naked arm and leg and, after many dark months of burrowing, breasts rising to the surface like moles at dusk. Big breasts in white work shirts straining at the buttons. Small breasts braless in vest tops, the nipples fretted by ribby fabrics. Breasts in summer dresses bouncing in the distance so that they catch your eye before you even notice there is someone wearing them. Breasts nudging out from the crowd at traffic islands, quivering to cross the road…And you know it is nearly summer. For previous generations, the arrival of spring was heralded by the sound of the first cuckoo. For us, it is Tit Monday. Not that it always falls on a Monday. Like this one. Tit Monday is a moveable feast. And then, of course, there is Tit Monday Night. You see, in early summer, temperatures drop off very dramatically when night falls. But the dollies are not prepared. Slightly stunned by the morning heat, they drag out the summer clothes but forget to bring a cardie (a mistake they will not make again until next year), so that when they’re all standing outside All Bar One after work celebrating the arrival of spring, their barely covered nipples have no protection from the cold. It’s like a Bring and-Buy sale where everyone has brought hat pegs. It’s like a prog-rock gig where, instead of lighters, everyone is holding up nipples. So when will Tit Monday fall this year? Will you be the first to text your mates with the announcement? Do not shoot your bolt too early. There will be false starts. You will smell fresh cut grass and see a couple of early starters and feel compelled to declare Tit Monday. But your more level-headed friends will tell you to hold your horses, keep your powder dry, don’t fire until you see the whites of their bra straps. As the poet said: “One bold Northern slapper in a bikini doth not a summer make”

:p

ego is back

May 2nd, 2008

“No worries, no worries, I am creative”


So, do I?

Thanks alvarador

iphone wallpapers - poolga

April 30th, 2008

Do you have an iphone or ipod touch and want to customize it?

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Image above by Will Bryant

At poolga.com you will find new wallpapers for them every couple of days.

The images were created by an extensed list of designers, artists, illustrators and dopey street bumps from around the world.

Cool stuff!

hasta la vista baby

April 28th, 2008

A Ultimate action heroes movie quotes tribute!


This is a personal tribute to heroes in ACTION and VIGILANTE Movies, particularly the quotes they say before or after killing/kicking the bad guy’s ass…

Though In my opinion a few good ones are missing, I’ve found it pretty complete!