Which is always a happy occasion. Because I am a smug bastard, on a very old price plan that I have stubbornly refused to change because they don’t offer anything like it at the moment, I get 65 tracks a month for a tenner.

But still: I like to use Emusic for getting exciting new music. Because I’m paying anyway, I figure I might as well use it to get new stuff.

So, if you’re of a mind, recommend me stuff I won’t have heard of. I’m not genre picky, so go for anything. (If you’ve got the time and inclination to check it’s available on there, that would be ace.) But please: take the time to tell me why the artists in question are ace, and pick out some tracks you particularly think I should check out – if I get enough interesting recommendation, I may just grab a few tracks per artists this month, and then grab albums in future months…

Go! Tell me of your modern music!

I was astonished to discover that there are people in the world who haven’t heard this, and very specifically that one of them is tyrell, who, I suspect will be cheering along with this. So I am posting it, just in case anyone else hasn’t heard it, because as far as I’m concerned, this should be played in every school in the country as part of a balanced RE syllabus.

And many more works of the Special Unicorn Tattoo Magic (including an old favourite) available here.

Abandoned industrial/warehouse space in London. I would really like to do some photoshoots in derelict industrial/warehouse space, or on largely empty industrial estates. Anyone know of anywhere that would fit this bill that I can make arrangements to use that won’t see us having to scale fences to break in and/or getting chased off by security guards?

Hell, I’m even willing to sign indemnity paperwork and/or pay modest/reasonable fees for the use of the space.

Anyone know of anywhere? Anyone got *access* to anywhere that they’d be willing to let us into for a few hours on a Saturday/Sunday in exchange for beers or modest remuneration?

A guide to horses. Very important.

(via Phil)

Would anyone be interested in acquiring a pair of tickets to see Camille O’Sullivan at The Soho Theatre next Tuesday? stu_n has a couple he needs to sell and to my chagrin I don’t have the time next week to go myself, so I said I’d ask around.

In case you’re wavering: she is ace, and you should go.

via mighty_god_king

I am posting just to say: if you are not watching riotclitshave then you fucking well should be. It is the best round-up of weird, wonderful, absurd, and occasionally horrible, images that I know. Every time I finish looking at a particular set of pictures, I am comforted that the world is a better, stranger and more interesting place than I thought it was.

Here, for example, is one of today’s images.

Someone out there in the world genuinely has that inked on them. Either the world is a marvellous, entertaining, fucked up place, or we urgently need a nuclear armageddon to scourge the face of the earth with white hot fire. I’m good with either.

This is not intended to badger people, and I apologise for spaming the friends pages of uninterested parties, but I’m aware that the poll I posted yesterday was posted late at night, and may have gotten lost/buried down people’s friends pages today.

It’s a poll about who might be interested in coming to my place in Tooting to get your picture taken in an unusual outfit that you might happen to own. So obviously, if that’s not you, then you can skip this, but it’s just that when I mooted the project a while back I got a reasonably enthusiastic response from a decent number of people, but when it comes to actually to arrange something to happen, the response has dropped off markedly.

So: if you in the course of your life, dress up in funny outfits, for goth/fetish/steampunk/LARP/furry/steampunk/other reasons, and want a pair of photos of you taken, please, pop back and fill the poll in…