Dan Morelle

So its my 30th birthday today. Here’s a little podcast I put together to celebrate.

Enjoy!

Tracklist

1: Ghost Dog - Samurai Code Quote #4
2: Black Affair - Sweet
3: The Kleptones - Amazing Temptation
4: Billy Hawks - Ooh Baby (I Believe I’m Losing You)
5: Spoonie Gee - Spoonie Rap
6: Martina Topley Bird - Ragga
7: Elbow - One Thing
8: Andre 3000 - She Lives in my Lap
9: Sumac Yma - Gopher Mambo
10: Jay-Z - Lucifer
11: Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine Of Your Love
12: Hayseed Dixie - Dueling Banjos
13: Elvis Presley - Do The Clam
14: Akasha - Brown Sugar (Les Rhythmes Digitales remix)
15: REM - I’ve Been High (Matthew “Intended” Herbert)
16: Isaac Hayes - Ike’s Rap
17: Chris Barber - You Rascal You
18: North Star (featuring the RZA) - 4 Sho Sho

 

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Last Thursday I decided that I must quit caffeine. That’s how easy it was. But it wasn’t really. Cold turkey is tough. Headaches, sweats, restlessness and a really bad attitude - did I mention the headaches? But I was committed to get to the other side without imbibing one drop of the black stuff. However many times it was waved under my nose.

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This is my dog Judd.

My mum bought him for me when I was about 12 as I had been a bit unwell, she thought he would cheer me up. Judd is a pedigree toy poodle however he was so confident when my mum went to pick him up as a puppy he bolstered right on over to her whilst his brothers and sisters shied away from her. Judd grew so big that the vet was sure he was a small miniature poodle!

We named him Judd because my mums Jack Russell Terrier when she was a little girl was called Judy - as small kids we romanticized Judy as we had never met her - she had died when my mum was young without kids. We (me, my brother and sister) always said if we ever got a dog we’d call it Judy but Judd came along and was a boy. Breakfast Club (the film) had just come out also and my ‘rebellious’ brother reckoned we called him Judd after the actor Judd Nelson, so everyone was happy.

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