In the courtyard outside my house the trees have gone absolutely autumn crazy. The one tree in the middle has lost all it's leaves, some are still green, some are yellow, some red, some bright pink and some are kinda a nice mix. Top bananas. In honour of those trees I took a load of photos and montaged the fuck out them.

Click for bigger.

I haven't checked for a while, but now my comic is kinda officially the 7th most exciting thing in the world.

The other 6 things above me are quite rightfully so. Exciting stories from around the world comes in at number 1, including a story about nuclear weapons, so fair play to that.

Number 2 on the list is an EU Research and Training Network with the aim to develop first-principles tools to describe optical properties of solids. I'm a big fan of both solids and the EU, so I'm all happy that is above me.

Number 3 is a comprehensive list of exciting things.

Number 4 is The EXCITING FP-LAPW Code, which is a full-potential linearised augmented-planewave (FP-LAPW) Fortran 90 code. And I simply can't even think what the world would be like without one of them. So wee.

Number 5 is a shop called Exciting Gardens in Illinois. Why not buy some exciting flowers to go along with your Fortran 90 code?

And finally number 6 is videos on the metacafe website tagged as 'exciting.' I'm not even going to link to that because I don't want to.

Michael
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So I finally sorted out my RSS malarky for all those who think websites are for squares.

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/melrss/

Here's the live journal synced version.

http://www.rsspect.com/rss/melcomics.xml

And here's the xml link.

Sometimes, before you know it, you are making a paper mache volcano with an awesome band. Do you know that feeling?

Heartbreaking, romantic, tragedies this week.

Ah...

See the Horse in the future! Wonder at how his grandchild doesn't have any horse DNA showing! Imagine maybe he has possibly got a horse's tail maybe! Use your mind to imagine Ltn Tuvok playing the drums on excel! And more!

I can't stop but find brilliant things on the world wide superhighweb. This keeps stopping me from doing vital work for my university MA. hand ins, and could possibly ruin my life forever. But that's a little far fetched, and I'm sure it will be okay in the end.

I thought I'd share a few things with you, in an attempt to (possibly) ruin your lives too.

Firstly File-swap.com lets you give a file to someone, and be given a different file in return. This most definitely is lovely. I sent a rather fetching picture of Birdman:




And recieved a rather intriguing picture of some masonry that looks rather like a computer game:



'tis a rather addictive site. In other news, we all like to see renowned figureheads of pioneering art be laughed and considered circus freaks, so check out John Cage on a 1960's TV game show. In true Cagean fashion, we must treat the poor quality recording and audience nervous laughter as if it is part of the composition. Which, in my ever so humble opinion, is top bananas. Also, Salvador Dali on another gameshow is equally amusing. I wish people still spoke like that. In fact, I think I'll start.

This is lovely too, and pretty mesmerising. Grotrian Pianos. Audio visual interactive electronic music programs, in my opinion, are where the future of music lies. It's where truly original concepts are found. On a similar note, there's a great collection of weird ass musical instruments, and mp3 examples of most of them, at www.oddmusic.com. My favourite, I think, is the double violin, which is somewhere between completely ridiculous and completely delicious.

KAPOW.

I've finally got my childhood dream on a teeshirt- the 20 most exciting things in the world. Ever.

• sharks


• motorbikes


• guns


• dinosaurs


• cops


• bombs


• guitars


• lightning


• cowboys


• volcanos


• treasure


• space


• mushroom clouds


• rockets


• music


• goals


• lesbians


• exclamation marks


• love


• the word EXCITING

All over your chest like some kind of ferocious exciting barf! Ooooh yeah! If you're interested in a tee I can make that happen. For just £8! Have a look at:

The Shop!

It was far too long, but my 6 week comic hiatus has come to a close. And to celebrate, I have managed to sort out a random comic button! Random buttons really are amazing, they have so much mystery and power to them. I must remember to put more random buttons, all over the website. Even when you least expect it!

Press it if you dare:

Tonight was kind of out of the ordinary as I went on local television and local radio at the same time, doing the same thing! It was quite a 'miracle of technology' adventure event. We recorded a two song set of music for Manchester TV, then went to Fuse FM to play live, and they both ended up being aired at half ten.

This was enjoyable because when asked "what else are you guys up to?" on the radio, we could say, "well we're on TV RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT."

We're trying to set up some kind of bimonthly local media frenzy Wednesday. But I doubt we could achieve it as successfully as this evening all that often.

Click here for listening to an adventurous new song I've just finished making! It is all about ghosts. Enjoy.

This has nothing to do with local media frenzy Wednesday. This is with a different project- called AMANAPLAN, which is me and a friend o' mine called Lorien.

PEACICLES.