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The World Spinning Sounds of Edwyn Collins in His Own Sometimes Self-Mocking Words The triumphant Testimonial tour prompts a re-appraisal of the Two-Hit Wonder's long career

Here Edwyn here. open.substack.com/pub/alastair...

Soo Catwoman

R.I.P. Soo Catwoman. I am so sorry to hear about this. Soo Catwoman (Susan Lucas) was such a notable figure, one of the most famous images of the whole punk era.

Taylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty If you're from a fading rock n roll generation, here's maybe a way to make peace with today's pop music scene. Just take Taylor Swift hits and hear them sung in the style of The Velvet Underground. T...

Taylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty

Lullaby For The Working Class - ‘Blanket Warm’.

Made by human hand, frame by frame. Delighted to announce that Gentle Teaching, Constant Follower’s collaboration with acclaimed Japanese animator Tsumugi Yagi, is released today.

Watch the full film: youtu.be/xYpy-vrJ4ik

Supported by @creativescots.bsky.social

#StopMotion #animation

Two books by Martin Millar: Supercute Futures and Supercute Second Future.

The Supercute Empire is under attack but Mox and Mitsu won't go down without a fight.
'We have plenty of explosives…Tell Sachi they're in a pink bag with Supercute Boom-Boom on the side.' #booksky

All-new Avalanche store will be bigger and better than ever I’ve said for some time now that Avalanche needed more space and I’m more than happy to be able to say that I’ve finally managed to secure just the space I wanted.

We are moving to a bigger shop but not far !
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Troubled Cities, my book of short stories, and Simulation Bleed, my collected serial.

Troubled Cities, my book of short stories, and Simulation Bleed, my collected serial. #booksky

YouTube video by The Line of Best Fit Johnny Flynn performs "Detectorists" for The Line of Best Fit

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YouTube video by Radio Heartland Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens | Live from Here with Chris Thile

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Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist Tom Lehrer died last weekend, more than four decades after rumors of his death had first gone into circulation. He didn't bother to contradict them, publicly claiming that he figured they would 'cut d...

Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist

David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech “This is Water” Visualized in a Short Film David Foster Wallace was a hyper-anxious chronicler of the minute details of a certain kind of upper-middle-class American life.

David Foster Wallace’s Famous Commencement Speech “This is Water” Visualized in a Short Film

YouTube video by Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance

Satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer has died at 97. His songs delved in black humour (“Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”) and political and religious satire (“The Vatican Rag”) and he was quite popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Lehrer live in Copenhagen in 1967. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPm...

RIP Tom Lehrer - the day he announced his items were public domain on a website, we mirrored it. Thank you for your service

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I hate Virgin broadband I hate them so much. There will be no further news at this time.

Two books by Martin Millar and a bottle of shochu.

My first book, Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation, and my most recent book, Troubled Cities. Also a bottle of sweet potato shochu. I’ve not been feeling very inspired recently, it might help. #booksky

Simulation Bleed, a novel by Martin Millar.

I wrote Simulation Bleed as a weekly serial. 'London, music, time travel, monsters, 1967- 77, therapy, swords, depression, alcohol, punk rock, gaming.'
Rainith the Red: Hostile Fairy Disorder.
Mixt: Sacrificed at Stonehenge, survived.
Nakishdan: Psychic. Historical scoundrel. #booksky

Supercute Futures, Supercute Second Future, Supercute Zukunft. Novels by Martin Millar

Supercute Futures, Supercute Second Future, Supercute Zukunft and Japanese cats. #booksky

The Cranberries were on that show too - before their career took off.
Also saw AMC at King Tut's around that time. We agreed Mark E seemed like someone we'd like to invite for dinner. Thought that about Lou Barlow from Sebadoh too, and Michael Franti from Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.

YouTube video by worldslargestego Pere Ubu, "Waiting for Mary"

Here's film of Pere Ubu doing their unlikely pop single, 'Waiting For Mary', in 1989 on The David Sanborn Show, with Debbie Harry on backing vocals.
David T an unlikely pop star, basically looking like Norm from Cheers, but still a great performance.

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YouTube video by ScottishTeeVee American Music Club - Live Glasgow 1993 Full Set Stereo

Thought you might have been there Graeme, but hard to spot other peole in a seated venue.
Here's film of the last time we saw him at Cottiers, in 1993 with American Music Club, for a recording of an STV series presented by Eddi Reader.

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Supercutes Zukunft, a German translation of my cyberpunk / kawaii novel Supercute Futures. (front cover)

Supercutes Zukunft, a German translation of my cyberpunk / kawaii novel Supercute Futures. (back cover)

Supercutes Zukunft, a German translation of my cyberpunk / kawaii novel Supercute Futures. #booksky amazon.de/dp/B0F3D1695X

In our experience - SPECTRE run by the Chuckle Brothers.

Sorry - I know complaining about companies online is dreadfully lame. But just consider this a warning from fucked-over me to pre-fucked-over you: Do not take out a contract with Virgin Media under any circumstances. They view you the way a wolf views a field of livestock.

SA was a delight - though just 5 nights in Cape Town before heading up the west coast in a nice small cruise ship.
Great holiday overall.
Highlight possibly being driven around huge sand dunes in Namibia in a 4X4, repeatedly driving down impossibly steep slopes. That’s a proper theme park ride.

Brilliant, Martin.
Definitely potential for a huge global market for that. And for the even better sequel.
Great cover too.

YouTube video by 37d03d Michael Stipe & Big Red Machine, No Time For Love Like Now (official video)

Hi George - Can I have 'No Time For Love Like Now', by Michael Stipe & Big Red Machine.

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Mick Jones has a copy of Interview signed by Andy Warhol. I have the Evening Express autographed by TV Smith The Rock 'n' Roll Public Library was not a library. It was much more than that.

Have you noticed that the presenters on Antiques Roadshow are getting younger?

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Curse of the Wolf Girl and The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf, two novels by Martin Millar.

Curse of the Wolf Girl & the Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf, books 2 and 3 in my werewolf trilogy. Curse of the Wolf Girl is a comic Kalix reads. The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf's title was inspired by The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, a Japanese light novel and anime series. #booksky

Lux and Alby Sign On and Save the Universe, a graphic novel by Martin Millar and Simon Fraser.

Lux and Alby Sign On and Save the Universe. These nine comics I wrote in 1991 have had a surprisingly long life. They were collected into a graphic novel in 1999 and I released a new edition in 2019 with the artist @simonfraser.bsky.social. We still sell this at Amazon. #booksky