Today I have been mainly buying Jazz records and looking at Lucian Freud pictures

A 1970s cookery card featuring a photo of a deeply unappetising selection of undercooked looking meats and vegetables on a plate in front of a red striped cloth with willow pattern tureen and glass of red wine in the background. Above is the title of the dish New England boiled dinner

Brian Butterfield voice

I’d take anyone snoring over the man who sat next to me in Odeon Marble Arch and proceeded to fart his way through the 2011 version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

obsessed with the quirky in-person events tech companies used to have (netscape navigator jazz festival, yahoo nationwide yodel challenge, etc)

I love that Pulp CD. Had it on heavy rotation at uni back in the 00’s

Well at least Viktor Orbán is free to headline Wireless next year.

Jaane Jaan Dhoondta Phir Raha | Jawani Diwani (1972) | Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle | Randhir & Jaya YouTube video by Kishore Kumar Hit Songs

Legendary singer Asha Bhosle passed away yesterday.. This is my fav Asha song, a truly timeless melody composed by her husband RD Burman, sung with Kishore Kumar. Form the movie Jawani Diwani (1972) it has traveled through the decades with a strong sense of nostalgia & romance

youtu.be/K-GPX2PzDKM

"Your own. Personal. Negus.
Someone who rates your chairs,
Someone who cares"

Okay so you might see this video with the audio muted. Now imagine how the music must sound like. I urge you to unmute and listen to what it's actually like because I guarantee you you're not prepared for it.

New nationally important art gallery just opened, lads...

The gold standard of best ofs

#LetterboxdFriday

Viz 355

I talked about My Phantoms too much, so this thread will probably be the only thing I post about Gwendoline Riley’s new novel The Palm House. I have read it twice, first in proof and again now the novel is ‘in the shops’. As usual, the style is the substance, and the style is impeccable. >

A vinyl copy of the Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan album Epistrophy on ECM

A vinyl copy of VALENTINE By BILL FRISELL, RUDY ROYSTON and THOMAS MORGAN on BLUE NOTE

Jazz gods shining on me in the Oxfam Shop

Was fucked up royally by every last excellent & pitilessly chilling story in both of these.
And when I finally tracked them down as an adult, my relief was all the sweeter for discovering that they were created by the same person who wrote most of Trumpton

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

I genuinely think the thing that killed #TOTP was moving away from only showing climbing singles.

A little from column A a little from column B

The BHF was always massively overpriced, Wood Green never had physical media in and the Barnados was poor at best

Our high street has lost three charity shops in the last 6 weeks

Times are tough

Weird to think that Liza Minnelli and Dusty Springfield were respectively only 43 and 50 when they made their comeback records with the Pet Shop Boys. At the time they felt like ancient ghosts of showbiz past. The equivalents now (in age if not in stature) would be Cheryl Tweedy and Emma Bunton.

4 panel comic featuring JK Rowling Panel 1: Coffee shop. Barista: I’m sorry I messed up your coffee order JK Rowling JK Rowling: Aww, it happens! Panel 2: But later… The barista has is walking past a bookshop, whistling, without a care in the world. The day is bright and sunny Panel 3: Suddenly the barista stops. Their eye is drawn to a book in the window. The sky begins to cloud over and rain begins to fall Panel 4: The barista emits a low moan and we see that the book in the window is called “The Coffee Shop Pedo” by a Mr. Robert Galbraith

A JK Rowling comic

Also Brian Wilde was 49 when he started playing Foggy… people age differently now

Jack Whitehall stands alongside James Corden and a lasting legacy of colonial violence as one of the worst things Britain has ever produced

Bob Dylan on subway stairs, 1983 Photo by Lynn Goldsmith

Bob Dylan trying to find his way back from some Wetherspoons toilets…

Build your own Angela Davis in just 84 weekly parts

The album cover for "Low" by David Bowie, except Dave is now Moe Szyslak from 'The Simpsons'. The title has been changed to "Moe".