Wait until next year

The unbuilt city

: Chrystie-Forsyth Parkway, New York

: Edwin Roundtour Tower, London

: High rise on Frederick Street, Berlin

: Aeroflot building, Moscow

It’s not like any other love

Thirty years ago today The Smiths released their first single. Read the rest of this entry »

Been on a bit of a Joan Didion binge this week. I wish I’d read more of her work earlier. I also wish I had something profound about what I’ve read so far. She certainly knows her way around a sentence – it is one thing to tell a compelling tale, it is another thing to tell it beautifully.

Image from Incase. via Flickr

May 8, 2013

It shouldn’t matter to you

Razzmatazz is the great forgotten Pulp single. I remember picking up the 12″ single in a bargain bin of a local record shop, the kind of record shop that doesn’t exist anymore. It wasn’t particularly fancy, was geared more to mainstream stuff and that appeared to be what it sold. So, if you liked a more obscure song, it paid to wait a few weeks and then sift through the bargain bin. It was a good and cheap way of discovering new bands, or at least hearing bands I’d read about but couldn’t hear on the radio. Read the rest of this entry »

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