When I left school, sickened of Shakespeare, Fitzgerald and Graham Greene (you had to read them!), I read what most teenagers read - Catch 22, On The Road, Vonnegut, Camus, Kafka etc. How did I miss Brautigan? This book makes me feel nineteen years old again. Blinding, poetic, surreal, hilarious.

nationalpark.bandcamp.com/track/greyho... You find yourself…

Show me something more perfect. You can’t x

Cut down on your heating bills by powering your house with the contempt that Kevin Rowland shows for Richard Skinner in this 1985 Whistle Test interview. youtu.be/xOnEEqfPlVo?...

Grouper -Headache Why does love keep letting me down? youtu.be/3322M2ugWp8

Old fave. ‘Disney’s Dream Debased’ - The Fall youtu.be/xWjiRr8qQYs?... Always thought this track had a wonky Madcap Laughs feel.

50 yrs ago today on the same street corner waiting for the same lift I read CSM's NME review of Station To Station. Even from the review it sounded outside of everything and it was. Ice cold impassioned, brittle, coked up and already Germanic before we all knew where that was headed.

Some new pics of the only Syd Barrett solo gig, circa 1970, have surfaced, and they are so cool. Jerry Shirley on drums, Dave Gilmour on bass

Years ago I watched film clips with Terence Stamp from his great career: Fellini, Pasolini, Priscilla, The Hit, Superman. He was elegant, reflective, generous, insightful. The conversation is back on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

UNDERRATED 90s ALBUMS: ‘Movietone’ by Movietone Movietone’s records have grown in stature over the years in a way many of their contemporaries’ haven’t, and their debut now sounds completely timeless. www.normanrecords.com/features/und...

#NowPlaying Acid Mothers Temple Family compilation

Countdown to Christmas. The Chills: Pink Frost. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oV_T...

Such a beautiful song. youtu.be/wQGUYgNhQa4?...

Tonight’s entertainment.

Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's 1967 short, The White Bus, is currently available for free on Prime. It's credited as being from 1979 but don't let that fool you. Devised as both allegory and satire, it's curious how much of it still feels relevant to the noise of the 21st Century.

The 3-1 win over Ajax in 2001 wasn’t Martin O’Neill’s first European game as Celtic coach, but it was his first statement win. After that, we knew we could compete with anyone. So, there’s a beautiful symmetry in this result (3-1 in Holland), one that likely marks his last game as interim manager.

🎶I'm fit and working again Look down the road In the sun I'm fit and working again I've seen fit We've seen the tail end I'm fit and working again I used to hang like chandeliers My lungs are crusted in blood But the facts is now cut clear I'm fit and working🎶 #Fallfriday youtu.be/PGDKh-QayBk?...

Good morning, that's a nice tepublican x

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The Saints in Glasgow tonight Blistering

What weekend viewing ! Watch this fabulous 2012 doc on Big Star on You Tube with not a single ad break. youtu.be/s4_lkESMhZI?...

Kunkel Kyser

Roky Stacy

Young Whitten

Julian Quine

Verlaine Lloyd