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I miss you

• Weekends cooking pasta and playing computer games
• Falling in love with your quicksilver hoodie
• The longing of the kiss, under the motorway bridge
• Pinning your fitting body and forcing lavender on your head
• Your respect as I introduce myself to your beer chat
• The unbearable lust induced by your denim hotpants
• Weekends where we never left bed
• Mojitos with your friends
• Finding your thoughts in my Spotify inbox
• Your nose on my pelvis
• Mornings marinading in our blissful joint hangover

The lonelier I get, the harder it is to remember why I love you.

Songs that need dubstep remixes

SNSD - OH!

AKA Girl’s Generation. I’m not too sure why. I’m only just getting into K-Pop, but I’m noticing a distinct lack of dubstep remixes in the genre. Upsetting. Below is the only one I’ve found. He/She called it K-Step. That’s allowed to stick.

The majority of the K-Pop ‘remixes’ I’ve seen are ballad solo piano versions. Which seems odd.

Foxy Brown - Fast Car

OK, this probably wouldn’t work too well, but I just want to hear it, you know?

Caravan Palace - Je M’amuse

Or anything electro-swing. I chose this one as it’s so close anyway. I enjoy it immensely.

Electro Swing really took off at this years festivals, and I’m looking forward to it retreating into cosy clubs near me during the winter. Nothing’s more cosy than wobbly bass.

More please

Anyone else got any suggestions? I’m making a spotify playlist, dump it in there. If you want to go ahead and do the remixes, allow me to point you to this wobbly bass tutorial.

Anything else?

5 things I’ve been thinking about

(These are mostly self realisations that new thoughts for the masses. Forgive me, I’m young.)

1. Outside

As many of you know, I’m on super holiday time. 4 months of nothing, which sounds ludicrously indulgent. Except it’s actually my first, as I skipped university. Excluding festivals, I’ve spent previous summers behind my desk working on the Most Important Project Of My Life So Far. The biggest thing I’ve learnt on my time off so far is just how good outside is. But you all knew that, so I don’t need to elaborate.

2. Exclusivity

I tend to defend those who aren’t there to defend themselves. Having moved into Shoreditch, I’ve started defending the locals. Therefore I’ve been thinking about the pretension, exclusivity and rudeness of those doing interesting things.

I like to think I’ve done a few interesting things, and something I’m learning slowly and painfully is when to include what people when, if at all. I used to start something by involving as many people as possible, in a hope to validate it by numbers. This is how to move a project towards the average. So it helps to be able to push people away. Whether these attributes are acquired by, or a part of the spirit of, those who do things I do not know, but it’s a thought. That I’ve been thinking about.

3. Hackdays

Thinking back, the first Rewired State was my first foray into the previous point. I spent a full day researching everyone that had signed up to participate and harshly choosing who to come. It didn’t please everyone, and I had to be discrete about it, but I think it made the day what it was.

And this is still my biggest bit of advice to those hosting their own hack days. And that’s all I do now, advise.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I plan for Music Hack Day London 2010 to be the last hackday that I have anything to do with organising.

4. How we move forward

During a late night game of “I have never”, we paused so that Jon and Jamie off of The Skints could have a heart to heart that they would be too drunk to remember. During this, me and a visiting friend who’s studying Art History got to discussing Art, Design and Science. I drew out our thinking into a diagram, which I’ve Omnigraffled and put below. I’m a little worried I’ve made some obvious faux pas in it, or that it might even offend someone somehow, so bear that in mind.

5. Standing on the shoulders of invisible giants

The above then gets me thinking of how I jump on the shoulders of giants, but yet am quiet ignorant of the giants. Too young and too eager to just get on with it than to stare in awe at those before me. I don’t think this is a massive flaw, but it has started fueling a healthy dose of self doubt over my thinkings, and as I’ve been spending a bit more time around giants, when I mis-quote them, it stings.

I’m having thoughts on how to fix this, but these thoughts are far too young to told to you, filthy commoner.