August 2009
1 post
Dearest Subscribers
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll no longer be blogging here at 36-degrees.co.uk. I shall instead be redirecting traffic from this site to my new site stuartfrisby.com.
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March 2009
2 posts
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The 1964 Dylan song, which recounts the true story of a black hotel employee killed by a wealthy Maryland Tobacco plantation owner. It’s a beautiful and timeless piece of music, I hope I didn’t butcher it too much, and do listen to the original, it’s amazing.
February 2009
2 posts
Safari 4 Beta Observations
Just some quick notes:
1. It took me two installation attempts to get it to launch, the first time round I got a non-launching application and system beachballed for a couple of minutes.
2. With the software updates required to install the Beta, and my two attempts to install the app, I had to do four restarts of the system. A bit like being transported back in time to Windows XP.
3. The...
An Asian Takeaway (Report) →
My report on the comparative experiences of top flight football fans in England and Japan, written as a final year dissertation for my Japanese & International Business degree at John Moores University in Liverpool. Via Terracist.
October 2008
2 posts
Letters From Momochi
A work in progress, I’m uploading rough recordings of a few new tracks to my opentape.
Sex on Fire
September 2008
2 posts
Fugitive Motel
England
“this country, once great(?), is a pit of inequality, of crime and of desperation. And you can blame whoever you like, and try to fix it in anyway you see fit, but I tell you this with utter conviction - Once I have swelled my universities coffers for one final year, I will be taking my educated, intelligent, success hungry self to a country which deserves, and values me. I used to be proud...
August 2008
1 post
a fortnight with the 3G iPhone
Given the painfully awful process of actually getting an iPhone to call my own, it reaaly needed to be good in order for that process to have seemed worthwhile. Luckily, it doesn’t dissapoint.
Having been in an iPhone-less Japan for the best part of a year, the original iPhone passed me by completley. And so many of my observations would have been pertinent to the iPhone as a product...
July 2008
2 posts
Warm Beer & STDs
Warm Beer & STDs - MP3
A song I wrote a few days before leaving Japan to come back to England. The idea was to make it sound quite upbeat and positive, whilst having a message conveying the utter hopelessness of England. I hope you like it.
上を向いて歩こうー坂本九
June 2008
5 posts
Filter iTunes songs using asterisks
I just found out that you can filter your iTunes music by rating, just by typing asterisks in the search field. Awesome.
What a Wonderful World
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Video of me playing ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Sam Cooke. Recorded using iMovie, and Garageband, with added superfluous vocal sillyness
Wallpaper
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Messing around in Photoshop recreating the apple remote, and it turned out pretty well. Hence I turned it into a wallpaper. Head on over to flickr to view it in it’s original size, and download it should you so please.
Also, did anyone else notice that the bits of photoshop CS3 which used to disappear all of the time, don’t disappear all of the time since...
Redemption Song
Redemption Song - MP3
When the majority of your friends leave the country, you tend to find you have a bit more time to yourself. That being the case, I spent a little of that time-wealth today recording a cover of ‘Redemption Song’ by the peerless Bob Marley. The usual disclaimers about technical and performance quality should be assumed.
Introducing Terracist
I’d like to briefly mention terracist a new site from yours truly, which is a football business blog. The idea only came to me a week ago, and after a few nights of no sleep, and the pleasure of working with chyrp it’s sort of ready for some love. It’s not finished, and won’t work unless you’re using a real web browser (probably).
The site launches with a short...
May 2008
8 posts
Englishman in Meinohama
Here is a snippet from my gig at the Allman bar in Meinohama, Fukuoka in March of this year.
Four Four Two Australia
Readers of the afore mentioned football magazine down under might be interested to know that a small piece written by yours truly appears on page 42 of the June edition. It’s a brief introduction to the three Australian players who moved to Avispa Fukuoka during the close-season.
Incidentally, the magazine itself is very good. Having only seen the British version before, this one clearly...
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The Final Solution
Whilst you were sitting in your plush lounge, feet extended, beer in hand watching the biggest club football game in the world, enjoying a beer in the comfort of an English evening, some of us weren’t so at ease in our pursuit of the Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea last night.
The rhetoric is hard to ignore, it’s the biggest game in the world, commanding...
Another summer of upheaval
I wonder what it must have been like to have a been a fan of a Coventry City side which was on the up. The meteoric rise through the ranks of English football culminated in the Sky Blues joining the First Division for the 1967-68 season, where we stayed for over thirty years. Those heady days are long gone, and now, as Coventry fans, were used to season after season of under-performance, and...
The end is nigh, again
“Saying goodbye to the football season is very much like giving birth to a ginger child: after nine months of optimism, hope and anguish, you’re left with a genuine feeling of disappointment.”
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Fluid Applications
Fluid is an SSB (Site Specific Browser) application built by Todd Ditchendorf for OSX. Using the webkit rendering engine, the tool allows you to create dedicated applications for your most frequently used web apps. As the line between desktop and web based software continues to blur, fluid takes the web application a step closer to desktop harmony with it’s OS based cousins.
Fluid is...
Tomorrow, we hope.
posted on Saturday May 3rd at 9:22pm
The Championship this season has been perhaps the worst spectacle of football seen since Germany and Austria played out a mutually beneficial 1-0 German victory in the 1982 Spain World Cup. There are piles of statistics I could present to illustrate just how bad it’s been, but you need only look at the league table to appreciate the complete lack of...
April 2008
4 posts
I made a muxtape
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Plans & Friends & Records
Posted at 8:25pm on March 30th, 2008
I have six weeks left in Fukuoka before I fly back to England. It’s hard to believe that I have been here since September of last year, the time has gone by so quickly, and has been full of so many awesome memories, that I feel I could stay here for another year, and it still wouldn’t be long enough. I have another year of my degree from JMU in...
Avispa Fukuoka Feature
Posted on Apr 25th, 2008 at 3:59am
You can read my article on J2 Football team Avispa Football in this months edition of Fukuoka Now Magazine, or online at fukuoka-now.com.
I had the opportunity to interview world cup winner, and three time world cup finalist Pierre Littbarski about the prospects for this season, and he provided some interesting insights into Japanese football, and how he feels...
A redesign.
Posted on Apr 24th, at 2008 11:48pm
It was a long time coming, but I finally managed to get my redesigned site up and running last night. The design you see is something I worked on before I came to Japan, but time conspired against me, meaning that I only managed to actually get it finished in the last few days. And if you’ve seen the business cards I’ve been handing out for...
Gunkanjima
Posted on Apr 24th, 2008 at 9:27am
It was six months ago, here at my desk in Fukuoka that I stumbled upon my first sighting of Gunkanjima. The island off the coast of neighbouring Nagasaki which has lay abandoned for thirty-four years. From that moment on, I was dying to see it with my own eyes, and this week, I finally managed to do so.
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This small rocky mound, called...