NERVOUS EATERS

No idea what is going on here. Amazing though.

TEEN SHEIKHS

2009-2009

http://www.myspace.com/proteensheikhs

ATP

Weird, weird atmosphere all weekend at All Tomorrow's Parties.

Sonic Youth=amazing. De La Soul=amazing. My Bloody Valentine=amazing... I could go on. It's just Butlins holiday camp in mid-winter has this totally deserted, super-sinister vibe to it. Kind of glad to be out.

STRANGE

REPEATER

Second Soft Pack themed post of the year. Need some ideas. They should stop making such awesome music so I could stop being so totally gay for this band...

Oh, also, today I pretty much lost my job, so this video is kind of topical... Kind of... But I don't work in pizza. Or anywhere sunny. Or anywhere.

AWESOME

FIGURE 8

Poser.

ECHO PARK

Where the nice things are...

PB&J

Peter, Bjorn and John in LA.

SMALL VICTORIES

HAPPY MEAL

FROM MY WINDOW

Morning Los Angeles

JINGLE JANGLE

The 'Hoods. The Three O'Clock. The Dream Syndicate.

I DRINK BLOOD

HALLOWEEN

Essentials from the master of darkness himself, Danzig.

THE 1920s

This is an abandoned pub near me that they occasionally turn into a 1920s style gin palace "speakeasy" type thing. Not that alcohol is in anyway illegal now so it's kind of pointless. But a bit of a laugh nonetheless.

Thing is, I don't reckon anybody in the 1920s ever dressed up like it was the 1840s... I don't really get it. But I was drunk so it didn't matter.

NO AGE (at church)

I went and saw No Age in a rickety church hall and it was awesome. Results below.

SOLITARY

ART

Sometimes someone does something that's just undeniably amazing, which was the sensation I felt when looking at the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy right now. Things like forcing weird huge chunks of wax through creaky, century-old archways and weird mirrors that make you look stupid etc... It was silly and pointless but really imaginative at the same time. You don't have to think about what any of it means, you can just stare at it for a while and be like "That's pretty cool".
I enjoyed it a lot. I thought it was pretty cool.

LIGHTS AND STUFF

I saw Aphex Twin in an underground carpark in Manchester. Obviously the music was good but I was much more taken by the laser beams. Because Laser beams are like being in the future. The proper future with flying cars and stuff.

BUG

Went to BUG, the music video thing that Adam Buxton (of Adam and Joe) puts on at the BFI.

This video is quite possibly one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. 

NZ

New Zealand has these weird old amazing bands that you can't find any records of anywhere.

The Clean, The 3Ds and The Verlaines...

YOUTH

Chevy Chase and John Belushi

http://juliasegal.tumblr.com/

PHOTO REALISTIC PAINTINGS

Allysa Monks does these completely amazing paintings. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Not as good as this one though.

STORM DRAINS IN BRAZIL

http://www.toxel.com/

OBITS

Hard.

Pushed.

AMAZING

The Soft Pack - C'mon from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

Drummer is wearing an Obits shirt too. Whose lead singer Rick Froberg did that right funny picture up there in my blog title.

OFFSET FESTIVAL

Male Bonding induced actual male (and female) bonding.

Special mention as well for these two, who staged over an hour of indecipherable noise and reverb drenched screaming around the back of the dance tent. They actually turned out to be a preferable alternative to the horror story that was the Slits headlining the main stage. 

Mike was then accosted by strange smiling bearded men on the tube.

An alleged stabbing in London Fields meant police lines everywhere on the way home. Seemed a bit weird that a screening of 70s gang warfare classic 'The Warriors' still went ahead in the park the next day. 

Warriors...

DIPLO / NOTTING HILL

Went to Diplo's show at Notting Hill carnival (he's cool apparently... but I can't really tell with DJs). It was pretty mental and way more fun than I thought it could be. So I guess that's why he's cool.