7 songs for Brian

So, 7 songs I'm into now. Not my 7 favourite songs, that's not what I really take this to be about. Songs that I've found drifting through my head, unbidden, recently.

Modest Mouse - Float On

What can you say? Future classic, will be on radio playlists for years and years and everytime it's played people will go, "Oh, I really love this song, who's it by?" and no one will know.

Radiohead - Karma Police

Standing in Victoria Park on a lovely sunny summer evening with, what, 40 000 people quietly singing "This is what you get, this is what you get, this is what you get when you mess with us," to that nursery rhyme melody is a genuinely spooky experience that will stay with me for a long while.

Cherry Ghost - People Help the People

My Grandma died in Autumn last year, about the time I was listening this album to death on my MP3 player. On the train home from work a couple of days after she died, I was in floods of tears listening to this song.

Sara Bareilles - Love Song

Listen to Capital FM in the car when the missus is driving otherwise might not have come across this one. Quality pop music.

Ryan Adams - Halloweenhead

Ryan doing his best Neil Young impression. Proof that lyrics don't really matter all that much.

The Fray - Hips Don't Lie

Scrub through to about 1:00 minute in. Now I like the original but this is brilliant.

Lifedrawing

2 minutes

10 minutes 15 minutes

Really enjoyed tonight. Trying to connect with my inner Egon Schiele

I've got a cool job

For a potential Cricket Bowling game.

Kelly Brook Trampoline Game - Inked and Coloured

Lifedrawing 03/03/08

10 minutes
10 minutes
20 minutes (Colonel Kurtz)
30 minutes

Kelly Brook Trampoline Game

You got to pop her ballons without, ahem, popping her balloons.

Cometh the hour..Official RBS 6 Nations Drop Kick Game

Becoming something of a speciality it seems, rugby games. Thanks to some fantastic work by the other designers and developers and a bit of courage and belief by the people writing the cheques the game has turned out uncannily similar to what I woke up thinking about at 5 O'clock in the morning the day after I was first given the brief. In practically all cases where things have changed they have done so for the better.

Couldn't be more chuffed.

If you can figure out how to catch the ball without being given a hint then you're doing well. If you can get anywhere near the top of the leaderboard then you're a far better man than I. I've never been good at games I've worked on but some of these guys, Welsh mainly it seems, are posting scores that we never thought would be feasable.

Good luck!