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New favourite site of the week this week is a sweet little site that takes your photos and makes them all dreamlike. You can check out the site here.

So for this little experiment I stole a photo off a very talented friend of mine - Sam Waldron, you can check out even more of his work here - as my best photos seem to be of Egypt, and that place doesn't really lend itself to dreamlike imagery.

Take one already very choice photo:
And turn it into an almost dream like image:Now, Sam's photo was just as beautiful all perfectly in focus as he shot it, however this lovely little site allows you to take a perfectly focussed photo and play.

In other news, The Dead Weather are amazing and have just released their debut album Horehound. Hot damn. With Jack White (White Stripes), Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs) and Dean Fertita (Queen of the Stone Age) it is a band made in rock and roll heaven!

On 22 June they played their first live show. You can check them out here: From the Basement.

The Wall St Journal have this little interactive gem detailing just how amazing Mr. Jack White is, and how many pies he has his fingers in. Could Jack White be vying for Dave Grohl's title as the Hardest Working Man in Rock?

my dirty little secret

I have this secret. Dirty, embarrassing secret. I like really crap bad American television.

Recovering on a Sunday afternoon, there is nothing better than watching crap tv, and something that falls into that category is Gossip Girl. Beautifully targeted at young girls, kind 13-24 I am most certainly out of the target audience, but the crazy storylines and ridiculous lifestyles that these characters lead is the perfect afternoon escapism.

At any rate, that is not what this is about. Over the last few episodes I have noticed something interesting with the music that they use in the show. Rather than using a range of music in an episode, they have started picking up one artist and using their music all the way through the episode. A few weeks ago they only played Kings of Leon, last week only Bloc Party, this week, only the Transcendents. I like it. For a start they are playing very good music, but its nice, it gives an additional element to the episode.

At any rate, I would highly recommend checking out an episode before it finishes. See what you think.

Updated 12/7 - just watched GG on tvnzondemand, and Trascendents do the theme, the music from last week was White Lies (which I just downloaded and LOVE). Thanking my delightful HTC Magic and the wonderful Shazam application for correcting me!

A little lighter - and musical

Right, last post, that was a little intense on my brain, couldn't sleep last night after reading about the protests. So, this morning, going to get things a little lighter.

I'm always in 2 minds about music - I am a bit of a music snob and you will never catch me listening to anything which has top 40 hits - but I feel as though there is so much great music out there that people never get to hear as it is not 'cool' enough or whatever. In saying that, it also upsets me when I hear that a favourite song has been picked up by a top 40 station, they tend to kill music.

At any rate, here are 5 songs which should get WAY more props than they do:

Grizzly Bear - two weeks:

Pharrell, Kanye, Lupe & Thom - US Placers:

The Editors - Blood:

Arcade Fire - Intervention:

and Santogold, Julian Casablancas and Pharrell - My Drive Thru:

Total aside - listening to bFM - someone else has covered 'Razorblades'? Is it not bad enough that for some reason everyone thinks Jose Gonzalez did this song first? Poor The Knife, hope they are getting paid!