Ok so the idea here is to throw a party. And with the money from that party, record a 7 inch vinyl featuring the bands that played in the party, to you give away for free at the next party.
Barcelona
aka The City of Counts
My top 3 Spanish fashion photographers
Paul | August 27th, 2010
Sorry, but no. No money to spend on clothes at the moment and no inclination to go into the town center due to the annual epidemic of tourists and pickpockets. Instead, here’s a list of my favourite fashion photographers working in Spain.
Datpiff.com for online mixtapes
Paul | August 26th, 2010
If you have a day to waste and the patience of a seventh day adventist, or if you’re really into hip-hop then Datpiff.com is an okay place for mixtapes.
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Queen of the club scene
Paul | August 25th, 2010
The one man publishing empire behind the specialist fashion magazines Fanzine 137, EY! and Candy, has branched out into clubnights. Read More
DJ Nate on the traaack
Paul | August 24th, 2010
Jace Hall, you make no sense
Paul | August 16th, 2010
Are you familiar with Jason “Jace” Hall?. He’s a monster. A weird mixture of nerd, steroid freak, Hollywood executive and rapper. Read More
I don’t like Christopher Nolan, but I’ve seen his films
Paul | August 13th, 2010
I remember watching Memento and thinking how fucking tacky it looked, how stupid Guy Pearce was, and how ridiculous and Bond was a Jaguar in a low budget movie.
Waka Waka (This is a sterotype of Africa)
Paul | July 30th, 2010
I guess you can’t avoid certain cultural stereotypes, but you can criticise them. I hope there’s some distinction between Shakira’s pop take on the World Cup in South Africa, and my current fixation with African tribal prints on t-shirts. To be honest, there’s probably not. It’s all about appropriating diverse cultural tropes for your own means. Read More
Is it a Bird? Is it a Game?
Paul | July 26th, 2010
Gilles Marchand’s new film is called Black Heaven, and looks like a slightly teenagerish thriller set half in the South of France, and half inside a game called Black Hole. I think I’ve said before how much of a sucker I am for that whole ‘is it real’ mindfuck trope, so I’m fairly excited about this. Read More
I am the reincarnation of Ian Curtis
Paul | July 22nd, 2010
Last Friday, for no reason I wanted to listen to She’s lost control. This was the start of a three day long Joy Division orgy, that had me listening to the Substance Anthology, and grimacing through the songs on Closer in the supermarket, on trains, and in my room, on repeat and without respite.
The World Today In Satire
Paul | July 16th, 2010
My favourite website these days is El Mundo Today. It’s nice to see a nod to Chris Morris in Spain, and even people who are up on British comedy, like The Mighty Boosh, don’t seem to know anything about the guy who created everything truly funny over the last 20 years and who I’ve gone on about before.
There are worse looks in Europe than the Burka
Paul | June 21st, 2010
So, in France they’re going to ban use of the Burka…
I was in Paris recently and curiously nobody I spoke to cared one way or another about the ban. Most people either dismissed it as a politcal strategy on Sarko’s part to get the right to vote for him in the forthcoming elections.