Thursday 30 August 2007

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The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)



Second single from the spiffing Icky Thump album, which you should probably own by now.

The tune's obviously aces and the video's nice enough. However, if you care, there'll always be a special 'place' in our 'hearts' for the Stripes videos directed by Michel Gondry. Watch and think "Yay!":

We want some Lego now.

Saturday 25 August 2007

Like a Water-park, only without the floating Elastoplasts

Now the sun's finally come out for the weekend, maybe you're thinking of having fun in the garden, possibly with one of those cool home waterslides.

The way we see it, here are your options:

1) Buy one from RunForYourLives.co.uk

2) Do what these chaps did

3) Actually, you're probably best off buying one from RunForYourLives.co.uk

(Having said that, you really need to see this video. It's worth watching right to the end for the aces slow-motion closing credits with the Pixies soundtrack)

Sunday 19 August 2007

Free Gift Frenzy!

Get these cordless headphones FREE!Just thought we should alert you to a particularly good Free Gift offer on Runforyourlives.co.uk at the moment; If you visit the Voucher page, you'll see how to get your hands (and your ears) on a FREE pair of Philips Cordless Headphones, worth £40. All you have to do is visit With and Without Wires, spend £25 on nifty gadgets and then enter the all-important code AWIN0807 at the checkout, and the headphones are yours.

For the benefit of people who've just read that and thought "What, that's it?", we'll run through it again:

- Visit top gadget-merchants With and Without Wires
- Spend over £25 on useful things like iPod accessories, VOIP kits or, of you're feeling flush, an internet radio.
- At the checkout, enter the code AWIN0807
- Register with the site (i.e. Enter your name and address - This bit caught us out first time, but then we're not that bright)
- Pay
- Await delivery of gadgets, including fantastic FREE cordless headphones
- Feel warm fuzzy glow of joy

We've done some sums and it would appear that, by taking up this offer, you could actually MAKE £15 in terms of stuff. For anyone who's ever been told off for spending money on gadgets, now's your chance to show that Buying Gadgets Is Good. No wonder this offer only runs until 31st August...

Saturday 18 August 2007

They're your OFFICIAL Big Brother newspaper, you know

Last night's news: Gerry given boot from Big Brother

Today's Daily Star front page:

Brought to you today by the letters M, O and R...



Imagine reaching the point in your career when you're reduced to appearing alongside fuzzy-haired high-pitched creatures, whose main purpose is to entertain the under-developed with simple, undemanding songs.

You can probably see where we're going with this.

Friday 17 August 2007

Blowing Our Own Trumpet

We've just returned from our summer holidays, enjoying a week irritating the locals in some lovely European towns other than our own. We would show you the photos, but to be honest we got a bit too excited about foreign supermarkets, and so we've come back with a memory card filled with pictures of the fruit-and-veg aisle of the local Sisa.

One thing did strike us about the trip though. We flew on a budget airline which had a very strange habit; When the plane landed, the pilot would play a fanfare over the intercom. Like this;





The fanfare was followed by the announcement "Congratulations! This flight has arrived ON TIME!"

Now call us picky, but isn't the idea of a plane arriving on time kind of the whole point? When you book the flight, you're told what time you're going to arrive. That's it. It's not like some sort of travel-based Tombola where every flight number gets put in a hat and only the lucky ones (picked out by the vicar) get to land on time. The plane is SUPPOSED TO LAND ON TIME. When he made this announcement, we immediately thought of Chris Rock yelling "What do you want, a cookie?! It's what you're SUPPOSED to do!!". For a pilot to then whip out a trumpet and say "Hey, you'll never guess what. We've landed at the time we said we were going to land!" seems a bit grand. It's like the supermarket cashier ringing a bell and cheering because she gave you the correct change and didn't stab you in the eye.

Still, we're sure they're right and we're wrong. Which is why we're proud to introduce the Run For Your Lives Self-Congratulatory Fanfare-o-matic.

It's so easy, even the Beckhams could pay someone to use it. Next time you carry out some utterly mundane everyday task, simply click the Self-Congratulatory Fanfare-o-matic below:





Tada! Instant excessive glorification! You'll feel fantastic and everyone around you will be amazed at your astounding abilities to cope with life in general. Just made a routine phonecall? Fanfare! Eaten a sandwich without getting any in your shoes? Fanfare! Another drowning-free trip to the lavatory? Hit that button!

The Run For Your Lives Self-Congratulatory Fanfare-o-matic can enhance any piffling non-experience and lift you to the status of demi-god. Just remember to click any time you feel your 'acheivements' are worthy of note. Happy trumpetting!

Ooh look, we've just managed to type up an entire blog post all by ourselves. You know what that means...





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The Go! Team - Doing It Right



What you need to know:
- This is the new single from joyous trumpety-drummy tune-merchants the Go! Team
- It's scheduled for release on 3rd September, making it officially the least-depressing Back-To-School item on sale
- If you like this tune, you really should consider buying the new album from which it's taken, which comes out on the 10th of September. It's called Proof of Youth, if you're interested.
- If you haven't heard their brilliant debut album Thunder Lightning Strike, for heaven's sake buy it now. No, we mean it. BUY IT NOW.
- At last count, the band included two drummers. What more could you ask for?
- Well, besides three drummers, of course. But that could prove excessive.
- Have you bought it yet?

Thursday 16 August 2007

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MIA - Jimmy



This is MIA's new single, from her second album Kala, out on 20th August. It's a cover of a 1982 Bollywood song which used to be MIA's, um, 'party piece'.

She says "It was my track that I used to do my routine to. I had a little tape recorder, and a cloak and a cardboard cut out guitar, and that was my joint".

Following this logic, expect the Fratellis to promote their second album with a Christmas release of 'Agadoo'*.

PS You may notice that this post is not that far away from the last MIA video. This is due partly to us taking ages to find her last video, and partly to us taking ages to do anything else as well. We do really like MIA though.

* Actually, we can sort of see that working.