2008

Band of the day: The Mummers

Kate Bush meets Bjork fronting a school band with violins, a great double bass player and some...

My ideas…

…seem to be almost universally shit at the moment. Oh great.

Pitchfork’s Black Kids album review. Oh yes, very...

On Tumblr...

…quotes get reblogged more than original thoughts. It’s the endless echo chamber of pop...

Oh Christ, she said, I’m higher than the sun. I screwed my face into a smile and turned away. She...

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Michael K.Williams aka Omar from the Wire...

vb: zehnuhr: (via ffffound) Shouldn’t there be some sort of...

“Barack Obama has the worst possible surname for an American...”
— Frankie Boyle at Latitude

“Mic Wright has been made the new front section editor at Q...”
— from Journalism.co.uk I really...

Taxi firms...

…are the pirates of the road. £30 from west riuslip to north acton. Daylight robbery.

Things you dream of when you're...

…will be the title of the print book I’m making with my friend Mikhak. It will be...

From The Good News (a work in progress)

1. The Good News He stood on my doorstep with a curious look on his face. He was wearing a suit...

(via patlutz) I like a tagger that knows the correct way to...

Tracks I love today…

It’s Ridiculous Adam – Foxes! (A Sketch For Summer on Catcutter Records) Brilliantly twee...

That’s it, I can no longer read Wired. Absolute...

“We would hope this is some sort of ‘vibey’...”
— Pop Justice’s frankly...

Source: Travors This is definitely scientific fact.

“Glad to see you’re showing a little spine,...”
— Endless Mike, Pete & Pete

Pete & Pete was ace. I demand that someone repeats it on...

“The glaring problem - and it’s glaring in 6,000 watt...”
— Charlie Brooker on conspiracy...

“Barbie Salsa”
— what iTunes thinks the new...

I’m addicted to Powers. It’s amazing.

The sound of Acton at night...

…Australians outside my window arguing about cider.

Mic is...

NEW TO Q

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“If [Barack Obama] loses I really will feel sorry and sad for...”
— Jay-Z on Obama (from the...

“I’d like to sit him down, play him some really great...”
— the ever-reasonable Jay-Z

The Illumination of Merton Browne - J.M.Shaw This book is an...

“…the blues are because you’re getting fat or...”
— Holly Golightly, Breakfast At...

“I’ve made myself very invisible on Facebook. I kept getting...”
— Josie Long My interview with...

Rees promoted to editor-in-chief at Q

Apparently (according to Boing Boing) this isn’t an...

Font options. Any other suggestions?

That was 15 yesterday. Who have I offended?

“A pint? Why, that’s very nearly an armful!”
— Tony Hancock in the Blood...

Unseen photos of Johnny Cash at the Guardian

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction New...

Henry's tired and emotional

He delivered a parcel to her house at six twenty five on January 10th. It was a wet Wednesday and...

“Kabul’s like fucking Ibiza now. Heaving with pretty Sloaney...”
— Think Global, Fuck Local - a...

rach: From an old issue of Sassy. Sigh. I fully intend to...

An average lunchtime in the Stuff room

JR Williams’ painting of Jane Jetson as you’ve...

From Gorkana…

QMichael Wright, currently News Editor at Stuff, will become Front Section Editor at Q on 14th July....

Wikipedians are apparently taking this a little too...

“You know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man....”
— Mitch Hedberg

“I live in London, European Graveyard of Privacy. This place...”
— Charlie Brooker in the...

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The Observer's Who's Cool list...

“As you know, as some of you know…today is American...”
— the wit and wisdom of...

From this week's Popbitch

The publishing world is buzzing with the story that Coolio has sold a cookbook to an...

shinyshiny.tv’s quick bit of Google Images trawling...

“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If...”
— Christopher Hitchens,...

“I hate unskippable trailers. They’re usually on Disney DVDs...”
— from a forthcoming Stuff...

Goodbye Lenin by Peret Mmm sacrilicious…

Did a banger stop the Beatles playing live?

Fiction: You Told Me So (part 1)

Something I’m toying with. Reblogs with comments greatly appreciated. You Told Me So She was...

“I can’t make boasts about my body. The workmanship is...”
— General Plea To A Girlfriend...

“I worry that my mobile will give me head cancer. I don’t...”
— Josie Long from an as yet...

“If God manifested himself to us, he would do so in the form...”
— Philip K Dick, Ubik

Aquarium Drunkard interviews Craig Finn of...

tapenoisediary: Nike McFly 2015’s Available by the end of...

Coudal Partner's great list of bands...

The Things They Might Be Giants Carried* The Who Moved My Cheese* The Old Man and The Sea and Cake*...

riotrepublic: Advertising world hunger relief efforts in the...

Blender's oral history of Sub Pop

“It’s a Prescott situation.”
— Michael Eavis on Amy Winehouse...

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On fucked up-ness

Sarah: ...so she likes books about fucked up people.
Mic: That's why she should still be going out with me. I'm the living embodiment of it.
Sarah: You are Alfred Prufrock.

Oates + Mustache Makes Cartoon Crime-Fighting...

“What an absolute mess.”
— Bill Gates on Windows from a...

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger....”
— Yoda. Used today in some...

Notes From Mary: a very creepy alternative reality game.

hydeordie: Art crush of the day: Terrance Koh, These...

The Guardian debates the merits of My Bloody...

George Carlin’s 1972 ‘seven dirty words’...

“The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing...”
— Charlie Brooker

The Skins They Carried: tattoos from the Iraq war

Kurtz: Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?
Willard: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
Kurtz: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?
Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.
Kurtz: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
Willard: I'm a soldier.
Kurtz: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.

“Then why you come to Paris?” he said. “New York is better....”
— When It Sizzles by Rosecrans...

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We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement...

Big Lebowski action figures $40 from here Bunny Lebowski:...

None more black: scientists create blackest...

The secret life of Logos: Linux

brilliantology: somethingchanged: This amazing picture of...

“We are prohibited from committing aggression, even if the...”
— Dr. Fadl, the cleric that gave...

‘Crossing The English Channel In The Same...

‘We have to emigrate to space’ Zhang Qikai From...

Daily Mail scandal watch: Google Earth...

overit: (via yesyes) Ok, so smoking might sometimes be...

“There’s rumblings from above which usually means...”
— The wisdom of Fraser...

drymouth: Tickled me today. This made me 13.5% happier.

In my best Oprah style, let me just say: ‘You go...

Sketch: Proud Gallery, Saturday 14 June...

Fat girls in heels trotting like show ponies. The desperate kiss of a couple that don’t love...

This is basically a documentary.

Dangerously addictive album cover game

allgrownsup: The Salt & Peppa Salt & Pepper set: The Ramones window shades: I must have...

Marvel/DC the complete series

If Jesus existed, it’s this kind of thing that’d...