Moof is a new browser based media library designed by the same man behind dailybooth, Jon Wheatley. It’s still in it’s early stages at the moment so expect more features to be added in the future.

The main idea to this platform is to make the music social with the ability to send playlists to your friends. It also serves as a way to back up your iTunes library. You can export it as an .xml file and upload it to moof to have the ability to access it where ever you are.

Moof works by streaming the tracks from youtube. There are no adverts played whilst you listen unlike spotify and you are more likely to be able to listen to the niche songs in your library.

Also, it has a great sign up form, it’s worth joining just for that.

Tailcast is a community for artists, writers and musicians to connect and collaborate with other artists and creative consumers.

This is another poem from Inua Ellam’s book ‘Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales’ The book is available from Amazon here for £4.

Dustbin Diaries -Inua Ellams

Once
upon a time,
a young man gleaned
from an archaic continent creamed
in the light fantastic;
from the borders of history baked
before an African sun
came to this kingdom
of Babylon.

This kingdom became his home.
And as time turned its page
suit followed his age -
this now withered warrior
is whom I see before me.
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Ideal is a British television program that is now in it’s fifth series. The main character Moz, played by Johnny Vegas is a hash dealer in Manchester who runs his small business from his flat. Because of this, the entire program is set in his cluttered abode.

I’d definitely consider it a comedy program although it’s very surreal with the atmosphere constantly changing due to the bizarre story lines, I suppose you have to watch it to understand what I mean by this.

Moz is frequented by many clients through out the program such as Brain, a very camp man who appears with a different boyfriend each episode, Jenny, the borderline retarded single parent, Derrick, the vegetable farmer, Colin, who is on probation, and a minor gang as shown above composed of Stemroach, Psycho Paul, Cartoon Head and Stevie. Moz is supplied by his best friend PC the policeman who gives him cannabis in bulk that he has raided from rival dealers.

It’s a program worth giving a go although I doubt it will appeal to everyone. A lot of it is on youtube but I managed to find a torrent with the first 3 series on The Pirate Bay. The first couple of series are also on Play for £4 each.

This is a poem from one of my favourite books Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales by Inua Ellams. The poem is the opening to the book which contains thirteen poems in total as the title would suggest. I’ll post some more from this book at a later date so keep an eye out. 

You can buy the book from Amazon for £4 here.

This is Inua reading the opening poem. Yes, the backing is the Pyramid Song (:

Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales – Inua Ellams

I spun 13 fairy Negro tales that night.
Weighed them on illogic scales
that tipped the balance
and formed an alliance
with my version of the truth,
I uprooted reality and substituted it
for another that had more humanity;
thinking that if I thought hard enough
I’d make it real.
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