Amid the noise and haste...

permalink 2 savage LPs purchased for one pound each in a small charity shop in a small Gloucestershire village. Queuing up in the pharmacy next door, an older gentleman standing next to me with some flowers spotted i was holding them and proceeded to tell me about how, in the late fifties, his wife won a ‘spot the ball’ competition in a newspaper and was awarded her prize by The Ink Spots during a performance at Bristol Hippodrome. He welled up telling me about it and a little tear rolled down his cheek as he told me he lost his wife some years ago and that the flowers are for her. Then he took his glasses off, wiped his eyes, blew his nose and asked the woman behind the counter ‘how are we doing for tweezers?’. Choker.

2 savage LPs purchased for one pound each in a small charity shop in a small Gloucestershire village.

Queuing up in the pharmacy next door, an older gentleman standing next to me with some flowers spotted i was holding them and proceeded to tell me about how, in the late fifties, his wife won a ‘spot the ball’ competition in a newspaper and was awarded her prize by The Ink Spots during a performance at Bristol Hippodrome.

He welled up telling me about it and a little tear rolled down his cheek as he told me he lost his wife some years ago and that the flowers are for her. Then he took his glasses off, wiped his eyes, blew his nose and asked the woman behind the counter ‘how are we doing for tweezers?’.

Choker.

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permalink Saturday morning mooch at the Anti-Corby. Bang ting.

Saturday morning mooch at the Anti-Corby.

Bang ting.

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permalink Morning soundtrack.

Morning soundtrack.

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FBM ‘I Love My Bicycle’ trailer.

Excited.

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If you weren’t there, you don’t know.

If you were there, get your snake on at dusk…!

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The best video of the Penn Coach Yard chimney falling down you’ve seen all day.

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Cheer up.

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Elbow - ‘Switching Off’.


Rainy Wednesday afternoon soundtrack.

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The best thing you’ve seen today.

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Chris Burden’s Beam Drop.

Not just for art lookers, but also for those of us that like watching huge steel beams being dropped from big yellow cranes into wet cement.

And sparks. Sparks are nice.

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Grant Taylor - ‘Debacle’ section.

Reminder courtesy of Gunner, purveyor of finest quality t shaped shirts, woolly hats and ting.

The best video you’ve seen since the last Max Schaaf one I put up.

Off the boob.

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The Maccabees ft. Roots Manuva - ‘Empty Vessels’.

2 x very favourite artists + 1 x already smashing song = YAAAAAOW!

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permalink Anyone who keeps half an eye on the stuff I put up here will know how much I dig Max Schaaf and how rad I think he is. I ordered a couple of bits from him and he sent them through with a simple, short handwritten note and the starstruck child in me is over the moon about it. Goodness.

Anyone who keeps half an eye on the stuff I put up here will know how much I dig Max Schaaf and how rad I think he is.

I ordered a couple of bits from him and he sent them through with a simple, short handwritten note and the starstruck child in me is over the moon about it.

Goodness.

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The Beatles - ‘The Long and Winding Road’.

In accordance with the ‘6 month rule’, I give you the above.

Clocking in at almost 17 years past the rule, this is the first song I can remember making a genuine, meaningful commitment to as one of my ‘favourite evers’.

The album version has, in my opinion, the best string and choir section I have ever heard. It may not be technically/classically ‘correct’ (I wouldn’t know…) but, as far as making you feel physically weird when you hear it goes, it hits the spot every time.

And that’s good enough for me.

Oh yeah, and if you have any interest in this record at all, even if you just like it, you should definitely read the Wikipedia page about it, particularly the section headed ‘Role in The Beatles’ Breakup’.

Mega.

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FBM Ghetto Street Contest.

This was one of my favourite jams of a few years ago, it got a couple of pages of coverage in the magazines and I think it was on Props or something so it’s good to see more footage of it…

A loop-de-loop made of pallets?

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