July 2010
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Watch http://www.myspace.com/treasuretheband
Despite being about Canada and not Spain this song set to the sunny shores of Xabia was perfect. Completing the scene whilst sitting on the hot sand in dappled shade. Poetic license not needed as the lapping samples and rolling vocals more than make up for geographical accuracy.
Bromley South and the 'Recycling women' phenomenon
In the deepest darkest depths of Bromley South I came upon a bothersome scenario. Here I am sitting outside the station cafe on a low wall waiting for a friend. We were suppose to meet half an hour ago, and now my phone has died. I contemplate the risky business of running to a near-by phone box and wether he will arrive in my absence. I decide he will and proceed with the surveying of buses,...
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Ted
…has been round the world twice with the forces. He has lived in the same house in New cross since he was born (apart from when he was away.) Out of all the countries he visited his absolute favourite was Fiji.He stayed there with the forces long enough to know how to order a beer in one of the many languages spoken there. He always said that he’d retire there but things got in the...
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'One that dwells in a cave, especially a...
Mi mam and I took off on a road trip, speeding away from the costa del Sol in a severely scratched and marked rental car. I hasten to add we had no part in contributing to its scathings (despite going the wrong way round a roundabout, a collision at a petrol station as well as the odd curb-grazing.) We drove towards Granada, winding up perilous mountain roads, through small towns that advertised...
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Watchman
WATCHMAN “They shall keep the Watch all night from sun setting unto sun rising. And if any stranger do pass them by he shall be arrested until morning and if no suspicion be found he shall go acquit.” (A Royal Writ, 1252)
How is it that you have disturbed my sleep, You are that. Reckless vandal Here to colour Ashen leaves I see you Heavy rainbow footed Running with glee Boundless, Crimson...
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1234 festival
Half of NOTSOPOPULAR will be at 1234 festival on Saturday…We will be there with very fine camera men nabbing interviews and recording stuff….the content will be up next week..
…have a look at the 1234 festivals website for more details and full line up!
http://the1234shoreditch.com/
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A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival-Just One... →
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Castration, gelding, spaying, neutering, fixing,...
The UK’s biggest music festival group is planning to launch personal safety awareness campaigns for female fans after two rapes at theLatitude festival in Suffolk last weekend.
Melvyn Benn, the chief executive of Festival Republic which runs Latitude, said the organisation was planning to raise awareness of the potential dangers faced by female festival-goers at all its events, which...
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Tetsuya Ishida
Japanese surrealist Tetsuya Ishida depicts his forlorn characters as part of the machinery of life. Larger than life these figures often avoid the eye-contact of the viewer as if uninterested in human contact. Ishida died in 2005 leaving behind an extensive and beautiful body of work.
http://www.virtualjapan.com/wiki/Tetsuya_Ishida
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William Davis- photography
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memoryhouse
The Canadian duo mix beautiful melodies and ambient swishes reminiscent of 60s French-pop. The overwhelming sense of nostalgia which accompanies these songs is a strong force to be reckoned with. The female vocals are tilted towards the softer side and the sun-drenched art work evokes a lot of their musical musings. The MillionYoung remix twists the sounds of ‘To the Lighthouse’ on...
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Making yourself indispensable
We where sitting outside a Tapas Bar in Puerto Banus, you do not order your food. Instead the waiters bring round a selection of morsels on a plate and customers are encouraged to grab a piece as they walk by.
‘I mean what do you want to do?’ our host said.
This has now become the dreaded question. Despite being out of university for one measly year, it seems I have recently come...
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not lacking in colour.
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Skin Exhibition. →
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you shall above all things be glad and young -...
you shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become. Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need: i can entirely her only love whose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off time that you should ever think,may god forbid and (in his...
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Kisses
Kisses track ‘Bermuda’ comes at you with the full sunshine force of a 1970s disco. There’s a groove within the track which is oblivious to any notion of ‘cool’. No need to be skulking in a corner with an artfully battered copy of Bukowski poetry under one arm. Lighten up, get on the dance floor and throw inhibition to the wind.
http://www.myspace.com/blowkissess
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“It’s this 1 thing that’s got me trippin
It’s this 1 thing...”
– Amerie, One Thing
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X marks the spot
Prizes is the brainchild of Liverpudlian Hari Ashhurst, who creates woozy bleepy electronic beats topped with deceivingly pop vocals that soulfully draw you into Prizes grasp. You can check Hari and his band out at the following upcoming dates:
17th July, Latitude Festival
20th July, White Heat, Soho
24th July, 1234 Festival, Shoreditch
31st July, Field Day, Victoria Park
and some songs...
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Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin (Author), Anthony Thwaite (Editor)
I can not imagine anything worse than having your letters/diary entries published..In fact I become agitated when anyone flicks through my day to day diary, which is just a timetable of boring events and birthdays. Poor Mr. Larkin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/27/philip-larkin-love-hate-women
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Epicurus on happiness- Alain De Botton →
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Temptation- NINA CASSIAN- Translated from the...
Call yourself alive? Look, I promise you
that for the first time you’ll feel your pores opening
like fish mouths, and you’ll actually be able to hear
your blood surging through all those lanes,
and you’ll feel light gliding across the cornea
like the train of a dress. For the first time
you’ll be aware of gravity
like the thorn in your heel,
and you’ll...
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'You'd lose your head if it weren't screwed on.'
Since Christmas I have misplaced
1 beige blazer lost somewhere between Starbucks and Millets in Bromley South
1 receipt for a MACbook with a vital repair number left around Finsbury Park tube station.
1 Sketchbook- left on a UBahn in Berlin
3 Botanical paintings on the 436 bus
1 Sketchbook in a ‘rock and roll bar’ in Camden
A gold top at the Bronze club
A cream jacket with...
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Francoise Hardy - Dis Lui Non
2:54
Dark, unpolished shoegaze from sibling duo 2:54… ‘Creeping’ is as sultry as the xx with mistier tinges lurking round the corners. The kind of song which makes you want to peek in boxes and under the floorboards in order to uncover interesting family secrets.
http://www.myspace.com/thetwofiftyfour
∞∞∞∞
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'I dont understand? Are we not in a recession?'
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‘I dont understand? Are we not in a recession?’
Last week ‘mi mama’ and I went on a short road trip. The first two days we spent with some family friends in a villa just outside of Mabella. It is a bizarre place, full of English people, Russian billionaires and supposedly Spanish Mafia? Puerto Banus has become synonymous with unpalatable wealth. This back drop makes it a sort of...
shejira:
all is full of love ~ bjork
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