Making lists. A good jumper. Kitten culture. People with hedgehog hats. Paisley witches. Films about french donkeys and dancing chickens. Talking to strangers. Strawberry Switchblade. Sketching in the cold. Dylan Thomas. Unplanned journeys. America during the depression. The Quakers and people who take risks. Photographing people at bus stops. Trying to be DIY. Forgotten 80's pop. Beards. Running through graveyards. Hiss and crackle. Scratchy country. Overcoming my fear of dogs. Overcoming fear. Travelling between places. The time betweeen breakfast and lunch. Financial crisis. Insane noise. COBRA art. Rapping. Hippy dippies and Beatnik poets. Being inspired. Giraffes. People who look like giraffes. Old men and women with dogs. Odd folklore. Not knowing when to stop.
Music
Afrirampo, Beat Happening, ESG, Dendoba, Orange Juice, Times New Viking, Tigern Trap, Strawberry Switchblade, Talulah Gosh, Mars, The Television Personalities, The Pastels
Movies
Au Hazard Balthazur, Belle a La Bete, La Sombra Del Caminante, Panther Panchali, Partie De Campagne, Stroszek, Spirit Of The Beehive, Vertigo
Books
A voice through a cloud by Denton Welch
Heroes
Luis Braille and people who are blind but do great things.
Vampire Blues is the duo of guitar player Jon Collin (Serfs, The Whole Voyald) and harmonium player Jon Marshall (The Hunter Gracchus, Peril Hill). They have a pretty special tape out on Blackest Rainbow. We can't recommend them highly enough.
The Fifth Band is the gobsmacking trio of Stephen Lawrie (The Telescopes), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Kryszt Hladowski (The Family Elan). Oof.
A Wake is the duo of Nick Mitchell and Fliss Horrocks who also play in Beach Fuzz. This will actually probably end-up being a Beach Fuzz performance - this incarnation's first inside the UK.
22/03/09 Bristol, with Vase and the Madrigals 10/04/09 Norwich, with Internet forever 13/04/09 Edinburgh, with Withered Hand 17/04/09 London, with the light sleepers and the Madrigals 25/04/09 Madrid for Abril No tan Cruel festival
Christ, I made two comments of no particular sense before realising that you were in fact replying to a comment i had made. I have three excuses for this 1) that was waaay back in october, 2) it's five in the morning and my brain is on meltdown due to cold based sleep mentalness, 3) i just almost vommed up a lemsip. which incidentally would be another good use for a yellow jumper, if the mixture was particularly strong. voila. annie. x
On such a cold winters day, I wish you peace and harmony all along your way.
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