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Charlotte and I have made this small website about a record made by a crazy lady in Stockport in the mid '60s. The whole thing is really just an excuse to put a drawing of one of the Venusian space brothers online - look! he's wearing a one-piece suit and his civilisation is SO ADVANCED that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw scary Mary from Big Brother 6 skulking on St Giles High Street. 
Of course I couldn't remember who she was at the time (inner voice: "Umm - someone who dropped out of my MA class? Someone who used to work in the Education department? She sure looks familiar..."). 
She was wearing kind of peasant/gypsy outfit, and had a paranoid, ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got my hair cut - no, there's more!

Yesterday I got my hair cut and I saw Patti Smith + Lenny Kaye having a cup of tea in Neal's Yard!I was sitting waiting when I saw Lenny through the small window of Hair By Fairy, perusing a menu and sitting down.'Hmmm - is that Lenny Kaye?' I said to myself. 20 mins later, my haircut done (yeah, it ( Read more... )

I don't believe that though ( Read more... )

At the weekends or when Charlotte is working late, I'm down the Musical Den (that's what we call the basement) with a soldering iron and a big ol' mess, making these noisy dumb things for my own amusement. They are guitar effects pedals. I get the layouts and schematics online and there are forums where you can ask questions etc. It's like a proper ( Read more... )

To lovelikeyeast!
I haven't even thanked you for the box o vids and New Variant Hershey Kisses you sent, and already it's your birthday. Looking forward to seeing you in France!

The Photographers Gallery cafe - earnest bullshitter photog pitches ideas to PG staff, they are clearly not interested - he says:

"... the photographer's role is not to supply the answers, but to ask the questions .... a portrait of a cat is not about the cat, it's about us .... I'd like to see more portrait of tortoises, really big ones, yeah ( Read more... )

This one from charlottecooper - 5 songs I'm diggin' this week:

"It's My Life" by Wendy O Williams from lovelikeyeast mix CD. Not the mean Animals tune, which I also love, but a cheesy 80s sludge rock affirmation that's almost as good. Like the next track I'm choosing, this one has been knocking around in my head for 20 years or more, and I'm thrilled to have it at long last ( Read more... )

Hmm. The main problem I have with LJ is the actual typing part. That might seem odd, but I write little bits in notebooks and bits of paper, on trains etc, and I never bother to write them up here. Recently I have written about a strange zine reading incorporating an inscrutable shadow puppet show, that sparked memories of a couple of anarchist pop ( Read more... )

My six favourite songs of the moment ( Read more... )