my favourite barthes book, maybe. each chapter reminds me of how each song on fear of music works, taking the ordinary and making you look again. the final paragraph of 'the romans in films' has been surprisingly fundamental to much of my working life ▓
once intended to do the mad men b▒ok challenge, but got no further than this, frank o'hara's meditations in an emergency. linked: lovely w▒nkily scanned 1-bit pdf of a 1967 edition. it'll look lovely on yr kindle ▓
given oxford recently lost its scene-uniting local gig listings newssheet, it's good to see this - an online oxfo▒d gig guide. note aug 28th - my band penny ante pl▒ys at the jericho tavern ▓
i love an issn like i love a uri, a pid or a doi ... here's one attached to a great journal of 'experimental writing on popular music' ▓
matt berninger of the national at the electric ballroom, camden ▓
de▒oing semantics / knowledge graph grounded AI at the AI summit london ▓
adrian b▒lew, tony levin, steve vai and danny carey in wolverhampton last night - playing the music of 1980s king crimson ▓
having grown up firmly in the post-revolver era of pop/rock album covers, the ongoing that'll-do-ness of book covers continues to mystify. particularly meh one on an otherwise (probably) fantastic christopher priest/jg ballard book i just got for my birthday. anyway. here's a lovely p░ge about the covers of various editions of a clockwork orange - i'm all about the 1972 penguin ▓
pop will eat itself in oxford ▓
"but one thing - there is love and grief, a little part of both in every single person you meet" ▓
the wonder stuff in stroud tonight ▓
the name sets some expectations and it's not strictly all haiku (t░ough we can debate what 'strictly haiku' is given syllables are not morae and hell we're in english here) but i like this site of haiku / senryu / related form poetry. side-eye at palahniuk for starting me on this obsession so long ago. ▓
one of life's joys - thrifting for shirts robyn hitchcock or peter buck would wear. this recent find from the town of books, hay-on-wye ▓
godspeed you! black emperor at the troxy the other night ▓
a friend's design business, offered up as much as of itself as because their clients represent the still-interesting edges of our enshittified media landscape ▓
wonderful, cottage industry series of books celebrating PWEI (and so also the fantastic work of the designers republic). not a dickstarter in sight - just beautifully ██████ artwork and fun text in lovingly put together volumes ▓
how useful is this? upcoming london gigs, all on one page, all my taste or my taste adjacent ▓
all this zx spectrum talk. here's an absurd game - david bowie’s upside down / so far so houellebecq ▓
a great zx spectrum site. obsessive marker: they maintain a _gopher_ resource. nice bit - the zx spectrum fonts, with asm code for all those zx sp░ctrum games you're m░king in 2026 ▓
great webpage about ghosts 'n goblins ▓
winamp skins museum ▓
beautiful, near text-mode, game ▓
info about a fabulous early computer graphics performance piece ▓
someone else's obsession. contra / gryzor. approve entirely, i bought a bracket for my tv so it could rotate 90 degrees and i could play contra prop▒rly :D ▓
atari. an old bit of the old internet i'm surprised is still live (but please to see) ▓
some songs, by my band penny ante ▓
i'd like a dieter rams vitsoe chair ▓
gysin burroughs et al - minutes to go. beautiful scanned wonky pdf ▓
collection of fonts by jonathan barnbrook. i'm partial to bastard ▓
zx spectrumizer. i still see the world like this ▓
keeping the kingofg... theme - great site with interesting human summaries and - as the name promises - nice screen grabs of retro games ▓
ridiculously obsessive and wonderful radiohead-related site, reminiscent of the t░pe that made me fall in love wi▒h the internet back in 199x ▓
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