Just finished revisiting Philip K. Dick's Confessions Of A Crap Artist many years after first reading it. I actually really like all of the non science fiction novels of his that I've read. Also finished up Sefi Atta's A Bit Of Difference which was a great book about a Nigerian woman living in London and her trips…

Vashti Bunyan~The Coldest Night Of The Year
The Band~King Harvest (Has Surely Come)
Van Morrison~Wild Night
The Essex Green~Our Lady In Havana
Soft Cell~Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Betty Davis~Your Mama Wants Ya Back
Loretta Lynn~Fist City
Euros Childs~Fruit & Veg
Shirley Ellis~The Clapping Song
Alabama Shakes~Sound & Colour

what do you call an ex Chinese leader's athletic supporter that's been baited with a piece of cheese and some rodent poison?
Mao strap!!

hip hop palindrome (courtesy of mc paul barman)
Mika, Rza, Evil JD. Nasir is Osiris and JLive, AZ, Rakim

I think Naked is a fine album, Facts Of Life and Blind being my favourite tracks on there and among the best stuff they ever did. Speaking of Stop Making Sense, I picked up a cassette* copy of Maze featuring Frankie Beverly Live In Los Angeles and that album and their Live In New Orleans set both stand beside the…

It's a wonderful song. Does anyone else remember the 1985 film Static featuring the wonderful Keith Gordon as a part time inventor who worked at a factory making crucifixes and who'd adapted a television set to show scenes from heaven? Anyway it used this song. Hate to say it though, this song features an accordion…

I mean how many teeth do I actually need?

Det var så lidt

https://www.youtube.com/wat… that's the Young Flowers
And the Tropicalia comp is here http://ezhevika.blogspot.co…

Hells yeah for Checking In, Checking Out. Sean O Hagan can do no wrong by me.

Thanks but I'm not sure I like the sound of that. And the dentist is super expensive here in the U.K or it seems that way to me. Also I smoke roll ups/ roll my own which isn't rare at all here but I could definitely do with cutting back a bit.

Seamus Self Promotion Thread
First mash up mix tape I've done all year went up on Soundcloud yesterday. If you want a soundtrack to your perusing of the comments it's here https://soundcloud.com/extr…

The Young Flowers 1968. They were a Danish Blues Rock Psych band with an unbelievably great drum sound. Also a compilation called Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas: Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976. It's bananas by name and bananas by nature.

My dentist told me I need to cut down my smoking or my teeth are going to fall out. I told him I smoke 15 a day and he looked inside my mouth and was like 'sure you do'~busted. Been trying to cut a few out at a time and doing okay (only two days in).

How many ears does Davy Crockett have?
Three! A right, a left and a wild front ear

Freddie Jackson~Rock Me Tonight (For Old Time's Sake)
David Byrne~Canto De Oxum
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan~Allah Hoo Allah Hoo
Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack~Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You
Sleepy Sun~White Dove
The Olivia Tremor Control~Black Foliage (Itself)
Dirty Projectors~Two Doves
Kendrick Lamar~Wesley's Theory
Annie…

I remember seeing Henry Rollins doing his spoken word thing in Islington in around 88 and anyone who wanted to record the show he would just clip their little walkman or dictaphone microphones to the top of his mic chord so that everybody would get a nice clear recording. I had a terrible cold that night and you can…

Rest in peace to Jackie Collins who provided me with many an early adolescent erection. I worked in the bookshop that my parent's ran for a couple of years when I was maybe 11-13 and would spend a lot of my time nervously scanning the sexy pages of various paperbacks when nobody was about. While Judith Krantz and…

Not so much lampshading as chandeliering; When everybody used to go wobbly when they had a flashback in The Young Ones (a good example being the graveside scene in Nasty), The closing freeze frame at the end of each episode of Police Squad and Team America's montage song. To be honest I've never heard of lampshading…

You're telling me. And just in time for the dark, miserable autumnal mornings as well.