This is Omar’s blog

Songs keep popping up on shuffle that I just love and I wonder why I wasn’t listening to them sooner. Example 1 - Depeche Mode - In this house (Gabriel and Dresden mix). It’s been on repeat lately.

Then on Thursday shuffle threw up a a Matisyahu (you know the Jewish reggae singer) and so I’ve been listening to the album a whole lot recently and it’s really good. In a sort of uplifting, unusual way.

The thing is, it makes me not want to delete anything else from my iPod. You know, just in case I delete something I don’t realise I like.

Coffee was good, I used two pods and it just fit in a mug (under the mug setting, who would have guessed!!). I read you can use a single cup after a mug and it comes ok, will test that next!

I’ll stop posting now and go outside.

(One last thing, I like to have music on in the classroom. Before or after the children are there. The thing is, it absolutely can’t have an swearing in. So, it’s either the radio or Sigur Ros or the piano covers of Radiohead I have.)

“What’s bad, we’ll fix it
What’s wrong, we’ll make it alright, alright
It’s gone, we’ll find it
Takes so long, we’ve got time
All the time”

And you already know
Yet you already know
How this will end

My name is Omar and I like this music. I always had this down as hard trance, to me hard house is less - well trancey.

Oh Darling - Hey.Stay.Wait.Explode!

Wakey!Wakey! - Say It Ain’t So (Weezer Cover)

I Scream Ice Cream - Trust Tissue

Admittedly the last one is from the person who was part of Junior Senior. Still. I found them listening to the Hype Machine radio - which can be a mixed bag, but then that’s half the the fun sometimes. It saves having to listen to the radio, plus I’ve never really got into the radio type functions Last.fm.

Also Muller yoghurts are 5 for a £1 at Tesco (don’t go shopping there at about 7:30pm, there’s nothing on the shelves). Though I had a nice chat with the checkout girl about the fact she seems to be allergic to alcohol, apparently it made her really sick. Fancy that.

(As an aside, Tesco you shouldn’t really be giving 17 year olds money off vouchers for wine really. Shame on you!)

The genius playlist thing in iTunes eight is cool. You pick a song and then it makes a playlist*. There is sending of details and it’ll never appear on my iPod but the first one I had was pretty good and so therefore it’s great.

*magic I think.

http://unplugyourfriends.com/

It’s an epidemic. It can strike anyone. It begins harmlessly enough… maybe with a cell phone, an online social network profile, or an IM. But before long, the electronic screens invade every corner of your life.

There’s a name for this tragic and extremely annoying condition: Screen Addiction.

But there is hope. Send an intervention to someone you care about! Help them take the first step towards recovery.

The song and animations are just lovely.

(The song is The Real Tuesday Weld - Blood Sugar Love and the refrain is Life is good when you’re filled with blood, life is good when you’re filled with love”.)

Well, to start with. All the music on my iPod I don’t listen too. Shuffle has been a revelation.

Hypemachine - it aggregates music blogs. Still working it out but their radio, plays random songs and is nice for a change. Glass Candy - Candy Castle

My new radio. I mean it’s just different to listening to it on the computer (not really a fan). Golden Silver - Arrows of Eros

Bonus - http://hypem.com/track/623174/MGMT-Kids+(Soulwax+Nite+Version)+(256k) - which is amazing. Please give it 45 seconds of your time.

Currently have Does it Offend You Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead on repeat. It was played on 6Music this morning.