I don’t know about everywhere else, but in London, Christmas is really starting to get in gear. It’s exciting. I miss Christmas!

…is quite interesting, it seems. When it doesn’t get too geeky. Y’know. One of the things in life I really love is ink on paper. Clean. In Mank Sans, maybe. Even just Helvetica. It doesn’t matter that it’s overused. It still looks nice.

Like business cards. Ask me to design business cards. It’s really nice.

…isn’t it weird when that happens?

The album’s quite good really.

Truth is, few bands can I enjoy the same way as M83. It’s like music to get lost in.

Oh, as I was writing this, I was informed of Bloc Party’s album having been released a few days ago. That’s interesting. What’s that? 3 Formats to buy right now? The MP3 download’s £5? Oh, and the CD preorder is £8? Gosh. What’s that, you say? The CD doesn’t come out for over a month yet? And you get the get MP3s and the CD preorder together for £8? And the CD has more tracks than the download?

Oh.

I like you, Bloc Party. But this seems like a half-assed strange mashup of what Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and The Raconteurs already did in the past 12 months. Like an awkward publicity stunt that’s gone a little wrong and presented itself as a terrific attempt to confuse the consumers of a failing music industry. Hmm.

Needing something to do recently, I turned an old gospel 12” into a clock, and mounted it on some canvas. I painted the canvas and pressed some words onto it. You should offer me money for it or something.

I saw Radiohead last night, in Glasgow, and they were good. Radiohead are a funny band… everyone always tells you you ought to be into them, but… when you missed them the first few albums round, it’s difficult to really kinda catch them. It took “In Rainbows” to do that… an album that I could discover for myself, without having it presented to me as “The best album of the 20th Century.”

Drew a picture of a chair.

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