Hellooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 114th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

Today we have a musical mashup of David's search for the Goddess to delight and entertain you:

http://www.rathergood.com/david

In honour of the Oscars I knocked out this quick little gag that will only make sense if you're English:

http://www.rathergood.com/hurd_locker

In other news I stumbled across this very lovely drawing of a Spongmonkey:

http://bit.ly/a2jbkA

I spend my days in Shoreditch, and was surprised to see that there was a big fire yesterday. I popped over to gawk at lunchtime and took a photo:

http://flic.kr/p/7K2eNW

I'd love to have a couple of those big platform-on-a-stick things the firemen were using. We could joust in them! Just think how fun that would be, two fire engines charging at each other, people hundreds of feet up in the platform bit trying to knock each other off as they hurtle past! Glorious!

In other news, we've teamed up with the wonderful people at dreamhost, who host rathergood, to give you a special offer on web hosting. Use the promo code RATHERGOOD when you sign up for a new account and you'll get a free domain registration and $10 off a one-year or two-year subscription! YEAH!

http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?93467

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Right, I think that's about it for today. Except to tell you that I LOVE YOU. I love you so hard that I'd totally re-organise the Winter Olympics for you to make it more fun. You know how you thought the Winter Olympics were OK but a bit disappointing? Well, I'm going to sort it out for you by combining a few of the sports. First off, the bob sleigh run will be improved with some loops and corkscrews.  At the end of the run, the bob sleigh will shoot down a ski jump, launching in to the air at a good 120 mph! It will sail gracefully over a target which the team will have to bomb with curling stones, dropping them accurately from a height of several hundred feet before they smash down on to the downhill skiing track. It is going to be TOTALLY AWESOME!

The skeleton bob will be replaced with the skeleton of a man called Bob.

In the summer Olympics we'll be adding the Modern Hexathlon. This involves a 26 mile run, all the time screaming, and defecating. To keep up the defecating you have to constantly eat cabbage and prunes, and drink laxatives by the bottle full. You also have to bleed profusely the whole way round. So that's running, screaming, defecating, eating, drinking and bleeding. Six disciplines, all at the same time. It's a very demanding sport and that is why it is so well respected. The Modern Septathlon I have planned includes all these disciplines but with the addition of another one which is too rude to detail in this very polite newsletter.

I'll TOTALLY do all that for you, because I love you THAT MUCH! I'm going to get on to the Olympics organising dudes this afternoon and get it sorted. Well, I might not get it sorted quite then because I've got to cut my toe nails and I noticed a couple of snails in the garden that could do with having their shells painted to look like eyeballs. Then tomorrow I've got to breathe on some stuff. But I'll TOTALLY get around to it I ABSOLUTELY PROMISE that at some point I will probably call the Olympics dudes if I haven't got anything else on and I can find their number and stuff.

Mwah mwah superhugs and ultrakisses!

Yours sincerely,

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee
25 meters swimming badge
Amateur experimental rocket / meat scientist

Helloooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 113th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We have a very special treat for you this week. Look! We fashioned a rocket from glorious bacon! Rocket Science and Bacon Science, the two greatest achievements of human civilisation, finally unified!

http://www.rathergood.com/bacon_rocket

Due to popular demand, I've whacked a free mp3 download of the Bacon Rocket Song on the site- you can get it here:

http://bit.ly/9Yh7Rc

Hey, also, our Bacon Rocket was featured on the ever-wonderful Attack Of The Show:

http://bit.ly/diwobA

I think that's about it for this week, except to tell you that I love you! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I'd do anything for you! You like honey right? Well, I'll make sure you've ALWAYS got honey! I'll follow you around giving you honey! To ensure a constant supply, I'll set up a hive in my bladder! The bees can get in and out through my urethra! Then I'll be able to wee out honey for you! All over your yoghurt! Just watch out for the bees, that's all, although they will be friendly bees so it should be fine!

The only thing we'll need to be careful about is if a swarm of Japanese giant hornets find the hive, because if they do they will slaughter all the precious bees so they can break in to the hive and eat the larvae. I don't want 5,000 furious murderous giant Japanese hornets up my old chap, I think that would be really horrid. I don't want them to slaughter my bladder-bees, and I also fear the litres of venom injected in to my bits in the process would smart an awful lot. To avoid this eventuality I think it would be best if I shove a few thousand deadly scorpions up there to fight off any invading Japanese giant hornet swarms. Scorpions have the added advantage of glowing under UV light, which is TOTALLY COOL! You'll have to watch out for any escaping deadly scorpions while I'm widdling honey in to your yoghurt of course but that's a small price to pay right?

Mwah mwah superhugs and ultrakisses!

Your sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School
50 meters swimming badge
Once did a wee in a loo containing Dannii Minogue's wee

Helloooooooooooo! And welcome to the 112th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

We've got a couple of wonderful things for you today! First off, here's some acid techno! Jesus Man!

http://www.rathergood.com/jesus

Here's the real treat though – look! We've got an amazing game for you! This is Mind Control, a game where you control a mind using your real voice!

http://www.rathergood.com/mindcontrol

Amazing eh?

In other news I did my spot on Sky News again this week – you can see me here:

http://bit.ly/98ilHJ

We've whacked up the mp3s of Jesus Man and the theme from Mind Control for you, because we love you. Here they are:

http://www.rathergood.com/music/jesus_man.mp3

http://www.rathergood.com/music/mind_control_theme.mp3

I think that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you. I love you SO HARD! I'd do anything for you! I'll genetically engineer mood-changing herbs for you, so you can use them to change you mood whenever you want! I will make:

Funthyme
Dullparsley
Boringsage
Violently Agressivecumin
Ambivalentrosemary
Killdill
Unnecessarilyrepeatedcumin
Mildandmeekfenugreek
Gloomcumin
Gloomierjuniper
Yetagaincumin
Pleasegoawaycumin
Arroganttarragon
Ohchristnotagainitscumin

Hoorays! Superhugs and Ultrakisses! MWAH MWAH!

Your sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling
Winner of the Head's Prize for Progress, first year, Aylesford School

Hello! And welcome to the 111th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

Look! We've been making delicious black pudding! If you're not aware of it, black pudding is a sausage made from blood and fat which is served fried, and is one of my favourite things to eat! Anyway, have a look at this delightful video:

http://www.rathergood.com/black_pudding

Hoorays!

In other news, I came across this little dog dancing to one of our songs. I'm not sure the dog was very impressed by the experience but he looks very cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzt8QFQwQvU

Check out this amazing ninja totally flipping out though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIduL1iYx6U

Yeah! He ain't NEVER gonna stop!

I also stumbled across this wonderful but completely mental hardcore remix of Lion Toaster by rOOmUSh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmts8vMGmt0

Mental. Completely mental.

In other news I made an amazing seafood feast for Valentine's Day last weekend. I went down to the posh fish shop and bought clams, mussels, prawns and ling, cooked them up very simply with garlic, onion, half a glass of white wine and a bit of olive oil, served over spaghetti.

I was very pleased with myself. Right up until the point where Jacqui started violently vomiting. Right up till that point.

Once we reached the point where Jacqui was violently chucking up for hours, leaning over the toilet in misery, I was less pleased with myself.

Hey-ho. Never mind eh?

Ooh also, you know what? My office used to be Alexander McQueen's cutting room many years ago. How about that eh?

I think that's about it for today, except to tell you that I love you. I love you SO HARD! I'd do ANYTHING for you! I'd make a whole series of films for you based on the successful “Saw” movies. Except with lathes.

Lathe- a film consisting of several hours of rapidly spinning table legs.

Followed by the sequels:

Lathe II: Turn Of The Banister!
Lathe III: Revolutions!
Lathe IV: Spin City

Then we'd go on a bit of a departure with Lathe V: Hot Girls In The Raw – in which a load of overheating women gather in the meat section of a local supermarket because the refrigerators make it nice and cool, while in the background a man uses a lathe to whittle cubes of meat into sausages.

It's going to be MASSIVE. MASSIVE I SAY!

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! MWAH MWAH EXTRASUPERSUPERHUGS!

Your sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight
Good understanding of the principles of spelling

Helloooooooooooooooo! And welcome to the 110th EVER newsletter from rathergood!

I've got a wonderful treat for you today, look! I'm The Manatee, Bitch!

http://www.rathergood.com/manatee

You can get an amazing Manateeshirt here (see what I did there? Manateeshirt!)

http://bit.ly/d1Lxve

Attack Of The Show featured our Look At My Potato song this week! Hoorays! They called us geniouses which is very nice of them indeed!

http://bit.ly/ciWkwx

And hey! Look! You can get an amazing Look At My Potato tshirt here if you like!

http://bit.ly/cRbgGZ

Also, I talked about Cephalopods (mainly squid) for Wordia, which you can see here (although the volume is a bit low, might want to turn it up a bit)

http://www.rathergood.com/cephalopod

Also, The Courteeners know that you own a tank top. THEY KNOW:

http://www.rathergood.com/tanktop

Also, we got a very small mention in the Guardian Guide for The Internet Is Made of Cats- very small, but hey, it's still nice

http://bit.ly/9af7ga

I think that's about it for this week, except to tell you that I love you!

I love you SO HARD! I'd do anything for yoU! I'd get a Yak and I'd scoop out some of the bits it didn't really need from inside and I'd stick a massive engine in there and stick a big fat wheel at each end, between the hooves, so it was a MOTORYAK that I could steer by its horns and I'd ride that hairy motoryak at three hundred miles an hour all the way to BULGARIA with you on the back and we could do a MASSIVE WHEELIE all the way there! And when we got to Bulgaria I'd get us a lovely gypsy caravan and we'd live there and drink the milk and eat the cheese of our MOTORYAK and live in peace and harmony with the creatures of the world!

It'll be great! The creatures will come to see us and say hello, and we'll scoop out their insides and put engines in them, and make motorwolves and motorweasels  and motorwhales and motorwhelks and motorweevils it is going to be SO GREAT!

I'd do that for you RIGHT NOW, except I'm fresh out of Yaks. When I get a new batch of Yaks in I'll totally do that and we can set off for our Bulgarian animal paradise. It's going to be totally sweet.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! MWAH MWAH EXTRASUPERSUPERHUGS!

Your sincerely

Joel Veitch

Founder of rathergood.com
Member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
Winner of 3 Webby Awards
Master of Arts (Electronic Media) Oxford Brookes
Bachelor of Arts (English and History) University of Leeds
Marksman (.22, 5.56, 7.62, LMG)
Former Sixer of Grey Six, 19th Forest Hill Cub Scouts
Former Member of MGS school cricket team
Former Sergeant, Combined Cadet Force (RAF Section)
Silver Swimming Badge
3rd best Cross Country runner in my class at age 12
Once had a letter published in the New Scientist
Attended one-night Pork Butchery Course
Keen amateur ukulele player
Bronze lifesavers swimming badge
Full clean driver's license
Passed Cycling Proficiency Test
A levels – English Literature, French and History, all grade A
GCSEs 7xA 2xB
Good understanding of the principals of flight