Mat Pringle

Oh! Just recommended HG! I really want to read this.

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner. Australian late 70s setting with a free spirited woman living a boho lifestyle in a community of creatives and junkies.Falls in love with a heroin addict. HG writes in such a tender and life affirming way: the human desire to live - really live - and love.It’s beautiful.

Yeah similar for me. I didn’t really set out to stop watching his films but I’ve not watched any for years when there was a time I’d watch Annie Hall, Manhattan and Play It Again Sam every year or so.

First date with my partner was at the Woody Allen BFI season…. 😬

Yeah thanks!

1967. (This cover art may be by the author, she was also an illustrator, but I can’t confirm.)

#illustration #coverart #bookcover #1960s #MargeryLawrence

@johnpower.bsky.social hey John, what was that series of vinyl comps released last year of odd psych folk krautrock euro oddness? Had odd minimalist futuristic looking covers. My brain is blank…

A green cardboard portrait of me featuring a happy/shocked expression and accurate side parting.

Working at my studio desk in school today and the Y3 students made a portrait of me out of cardboard. The likeness is uncanny.

Ha!

Ha!

Ha. Some of these are a little too on the nose!

'My Darling Clementine'

Aren't they Anselmo adjacent? Out of the racist frying pan into the racist fire?

Oh mate. Prestige!

I’ve always had a soft spot for ultra sludgey Sabbath/Kyuss rock.

Not a fan?

Ha!

Amazing! Also classic youth venue; the church bench.

‘Dopethrone’ by Electric Wizard with a soft focus horned goblin smoking a bong on the cover.

This morning: Electric Wizard.

I passed on this when it was first released because I couldn’t bring myself to buy a stoner rock album by a band called Electric Wizard with a soft focus horned goblin smoking a bong on the cover.

I’m beginning to think the bartering is the main lure.

Ah the timeless merry Vinted dance of haggle haggle haggle, accept, ignore.

small hours big time table with last candle and plastic skull on stick in garden wobbles in rain - meanwhile houseplants, lamplight, Ethiopian jazz

27/1/26 - nocturn

Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom | The Quietus Sly Dunbar has died aged 73; Wrongtom celebrates a life of reggae and pop innovation reaching from Jamaica across the globe.

Remembering Sly Dunbar, the drummer who helped steer reggae and worked globally with everyone from Serge Gainsbourg to Grace Jones. Words by @wrongtom.bsky.social

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John Alcorn, 1971. From: “Circues - A Book To Begin On,” by Mary Kay Phelan.

#illustration #1970s #JohnAlcorn #MaryKayPhelan

Birthday beats for Mike Patton of Faith No More, Mr Bungle and Fantamos. Linocut portrait from my #inkypantheon series.

Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best.

Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

1) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 2) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 3) Wu-Tang - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 4) Black Dog - Bytes 5) Portishead - Dummy And bonus record Nas - Illmatic

1) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
2) Massive Attack - Blue Lines
3) Wu-Tang - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
4) Black Dog - Bytes
5) Portishead - Dummy

#5debutalbums9094

1) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 2) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 3) Wu-Tang - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 4) Black Dog - Bytes 5) Portishead - Dummy And bonus record Nas - Illmatic

1) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
2) Massive Attack - Blue Lines
3) Wu-Tang - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
4) Black Dog - Bytes
5) Portishead - Dummy

#5debutalbums9094

Thanks Rich!

Thanks Ian.

Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95 album cover. A block-print style image of three lions' heads arranged neatly together, in black and pale shades of blue.

Manu Ekanayake is transported effortlessly back to a time of optimism and creative and cultural flex by a comp digging into the reggae sampling roots of jungle

Reissue of the Week: Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95

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