sorry for silence - work related, family related, health related etc etc ( Read more... )

genuinely tragic news about trish keenan from broadcast:

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always my favourite broadcast song. i saw them live at bowlie and they were... terrifyingly beautiful ( Read more... )

port drinking, cigar smoking "turn of the screw" child from last year's BBC nonsense wishes you all a VERY happy christmas...


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nooo! captain beefheart has died!

so! you may be pleased to know that if you've bought a copy of ANY of the common swings recently, then the money has gone to a very good cause


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this has cheered me immensely from my snotty sorrows and achy rubbishness...

further to yesterday's entry: sarah mcintyre - the ACTUAL sarah mcintyre of "vern and lettuce" - commented on my commonswings version of this post. admittedly to not only thank me for my comments but tell me i was wrong about "the nigh bookmobile" (which i'm now a little embarrassed by - this is how the vashti bunyan nonsense started), but still ( Read more... )

my first list is children's books of the year - particularly children's picture books. this year as i've slowly developed my style of art, i've been creating a massive folder of reference images on the laptop at home. these are for inspiration and for ideas and i've noticed increasingly they're from children's picture books. i've never really ( Read more... )

as you all well know by now, the worst actor of all time in my humble opinion is none other than nic cage. there are, however, two reasons for him to exist (three if you can find the better version of him watching "the wicker man" edited in with footage from "8mm") they are these ( Read more... )

if anyone ordered the lulu edition of "on the hadron" LET ME KNOW! i owe you your freebies...