Random Musings - Day #23

Remix Tip: Sabrina Johnston - Peace (in the valley) 2009
Yes, she is back. Sabrina had a hit with that song late 1991 and now it's back.

Internet Radio. There is a lot of it about as seen in this radiofeeds site. I actually do dj myself on underground radio 5000 under the name, shy. Catch me on Thursdays, 9-11pm. I have good friends also at Love to funk who play live every Tuesday and also at Zodiac Sounds. If like me, you like dance music and 90s, check out Montreal's inbeatradio.

Dance schools. Now could you learn your moves from the Interweb. But you can quite easily go to a dance school.
A good start is to look in a directory like Dance Schools and dance schools online for the UK and London Dance. A couple of those to check out in London include Funk Physics, Jivenation, Basement Dance Studio and Pineapple. Whilst in Kent, there is Dance Junction and Hayley Lou's School of dance.
I've always wondered about the "Goodman Dance Centre" and whether it actually belongs to Len Goodman of Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the stars fame.

Well if you didn't know before it's official UK is in a recession.

Random Musings - Day #22

The people are friendly in Liverpool, at least at the place I was working at. I was told about the interesting fact that the young ladies like to go out on the weekend mornings in their pyjamas. Presumably not changing from the previous night's activities. In fact, this actually started in Ireland/Northern Ireland

I've always wondered what happened to Gordon Burns, especially with the reemergence of Britain's toughest game show, The Krypton Factor. Well, I was slightly surprised to find him presenting the regional news on BBC 's North West Tonight. Good for him! Anyways he presented the following article...

I have always had a few reservations about the US Immigration but it looks like the Canadian authorities have gone one better. They threw out a Brit for being disabled back to Manchester. Arguably, the British man was there illegally at some point. But if you read the bottom of that article, it states: "The Immigration Act frankly prohibits people with disabilities from immigrating to Canada," said Laurie Beachell of Disabled People's International. "The effect would mean people like Stephen Hawking, world-renowned physicist, brilliant man, could never become Canadian."
Lovely...

Microsoft cuts 5000 jobs! It's doom and gloom as the credit crunch/recession/whatever you want to call it appears pwning everything!

Sport is also being effected. Troubled insurers AIG are not renewing their sponsorship for the Manchester United team shirt. A few other premiership sides have suffered as well notably West Ham, Newcastle and West Brom still have no shirt sponsor!
Also feeling the pinch is horse racing as Essex course, Great Leighs closed last week and see the last remark as Ricky Hatton and his camp seek to fight in the UK rather than the states due to the declining pound.

Back to football and it looks like the TV rights are going to go down the music industry route as the premiership look to stop the Internet pirates from streaming their football games. There are a number of sites that do this already, so no surprise the Premiership are screaming as the big pockets are getting picked. boo-hoo-mr-magoo!