Steve Hughes

This guy is an Aussie comedian and has a great angle on being gay.

Paul Foot

I went to Soho Theatre on Saturday to watch Paul Foot do some stand up. The dude looked crazy.

His jokes were nice and random. It was directed by Noel Fielding, the king of random so it was suitably nonsensically hilarious.

It started off a bit slow and I wasn't laughing at much of it but then he warmed up and meandered his way through his repertoire. He always started off telling a story, then went off on a complete tangent of bollocks talking only to bring you back neatly to his first point. This is when you'd go 'oh yeah, I forgot why he started talking about that'. It was definitely a (emotional) roller coaster of thoughts, fun but a bit mental.

He did jokes about people being racist and homophobic but in a very non-standard way and took on the persona of a homophobic shire horse! He told everyone that he was gay and was talking about the different levels of homophobia. A on the scale was very homophobic which was punching people for not punching gay people. He said that him trying it on with a straight man and them not enjoying it was also a level of homophobia, ha! Anyway, he was mixing it up and fondling boys in the audience which got some laughs.

He is well worth a watch as I did LMFAO!(laugh my fucking ass off). Always good on a Saturday night.

Radiohead's got a new album

I haven't listened to the whole album yet but I do like the song on their site, 'Lotus Flower'. I think it's going to be a good un. Bring it on!

Tastebuds.fm

Move over My Single Friend and match.com, here comes tastebuds.fm!

So if you love your music and can’t get enough of gigs and live events then you are probably put off by the idea of dating someone with no taste,bad taste or just no interest in music. These people do exist, apparently! Being a music snob myself I would not consider dating someone unless they were seriously into their tunes man!

So this great new site has been born: www.tastebuds.fm. The idea is that you choose people to date because of their music taste. It is linked to your last.fm account so it takes your likes from there but you can delete these if they make you look like a loser and add as many new ones as you like. It also links to facebook so you can choose some pictures for your photo gallery from there and the best thing is - it's free!

You can also add a link to your favourite song on youtube or to a favourite website to show potential dates what you are into.

I think it's a winner and already have 3 dates lined up with people who have great taste in music, get in there!

Justin.tv

I have just discovered something quite exciting. It’s similar to chat roulette in that people can watch you live, however, justin.tv give you your own channel to broadcast from.

You can log into the site and attach a webcam or mobile phone (with a video function, of course) to the software and start broadcasting yourself immediately. During the 20 minutes that I was live I had managed to attract 23 viewers that were IMing me with advice on how to block people and asking where I was from, it was quite overwhelming at first.

If you are not shy,a bit bored and fancy broadcasting something live then it’s quite entertaining. They do have a warning banning lewd and violent behaviour luckily and I was told that your channel is pulled quickly if they detect you breaking the rules. If you can behave yourself however, then your channel will go out to 250 countries live, so if you fancy your chances at stardom then this could be the start of something beautiful! Your sessions are recorded and you can send a link so that people can watch you live or a link to the recording of the session so they can watch it at a later date. It hooks up to facebook, twitter and the usual.

There is an option to make your channel private and to put an access code on it so if you want just your friends to see what your doing then that can be arranged.

On the whole it's a great online find that could potentially be a lot of fun!

Justin.tv

Censored!

I just read an article on www.socialmediatrader.com that showed a map of the most censored countries in the world. It lists all the social networking sites that are banned in each country. It's pretty interesting, some are obvious. China for instance bans youtube and wikipedia. Information overload! Access denied! Wikipedia is arming people will knowledge and knowledge means danger, disorder, revolution. Obviously.

The first prize goes to Iran. It is the number 1 censored country in the world!!

It makes me glad to be living in one of the most liberal countries in the world.

Here is the list of sites banned by country:

Brazil- YouTube, Wordpress; China- YouTube, Wikipedia; Ethiopia- BloggerIndiaBlogger; ndonesia- YouTube, MySpace; Iran- Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, Orkut,; Morocco- YouTube; Pakistan- YouTube, Blogger, Wikipedia; Saudi Arabia- Flickr, Orkut; Syria- Facebook; Thailand- YouTube; Turkey- YouTube, Wordpress; United Arab Emirates- Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Orkut

I did like the fact that google attempted to stand up for freedom from censorship in China at the time when the Chinese government tried to ask google to censor and ban certain searches. In response google ran google China through Hong Kong but this stopped and google have effectively bowed down to the Chinese government and given into their demands. Shame!

I didn't realise Brazil was so tight on censorship but I suppose it is a highly religious country. It's not all extreme body waxing and carnival. They do love any excuse for a dance though, so it's not all bad. My kind of people!

I love(d) Seabrook crisps

I was just thinking back to when I first wanted to get into social media and I just remembered that I was so in love with Seabrook crisps (www.seabrookcrisps.com), which were these awesome crisps that they used to only sell up North, that I actually made a myspace page for them and started to get loads of fans. Actually, not awesome crisps, bloody great crisps! That sounds more Northern. Anyway, people started to add me and write on my wall saying, 'Seabrook rules!' and telling me what their favourite flavours were.

I didn't tell anyone I was doing it as they would have thought that I was a right weirdo, spending time promoting a brand I was not working for, but I thought it was funny. Anyway I did email Seabrook to say that I wanted to market them down South but they ignored me. How rude! Now they are available down South and they have not really made any great waves in the market place. I know if I'd have done the job I would have created a much bigger fuss. Anyway, they did go down hill a bit after they changed the packaging. I think the crisps changed a bit too and didn't seem quite as good as they used to but, hey, they didn't employ me as their marketing manager so that is their problem!

Here is my original site from back in 2006, www.myspace.com/seabrookcrisps,when myspace was rocking it out! It took Seabrook 4 months to catch up. Someone must have told them what I'd been up to. Here is theirs www.myspace.com/officialseabrookcrisps. They even had to put 'official' because I stole the good url. Anyway, I forgot about that little moment in my life.

I still love you Seabrook! I have many a happy childhood memory of eating a nice bag of Beefy crisps!

Yes, the love of a good crisp can make you do crazy things.