GOLDEN GHOSTS////

Kim Herbst is a freelance illustrator for Brooklyn who recently caught my eye on illustrophile. Most of her work is done in a comic book style as she works as a games artist, however I'm in love with her other illustrations as shown above and below. Check out more of her work here!





The film adaptation of never let me go is due to come out pretty soon! Here's a review from someone who has seen a test screening!



O h so so many new bands I need to blog about! I've found loads of new amazing bands which I'm going to be blogging about in the next few posts, I'll start with my favourite of the bunch, slingshot dakota! I just got their 2nd self released album which is called Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours Is the Golden Ghost!?
and although they're now only a two piece (Jeff Cunningham of Bridge and Tunnel used to play guitar with them) the record sounds as gigantic as johnny vegas with a megaphone riding that thing from cloverfield's back. Their sound is really familiar but also completely original if I had to describe them I'd say they sound like a menage a trois between alanis morissette, vanessa carlton and brendan canty in a punk rock squat. There isn't a single weak song on the album and I can honestly listen to it all the way through without even thinking about the skip track button, which is an incredible feat for someone with an attention span like mine! Below is the album (which as you know if you read my blog I did not upload) which you should listen to, realise I am completely right about their awesomeness and buy their record here!!!!!!!

Their Dreams Are Dead, But Ours Is the Golden Ghost!?

Speaking of Brendan Canty below is a rad cover of waiting room they did!






I seriously think if I was twelve and came across this in the woods I probably would have had a heart attack right there and then just from the excitement of thinking about running around in this thing! This is the worlds biggest tree house which is 11 stories and 90 fucking feet high! Check out the pictures of this chunk of childhood dreams here!


Best friends forever are another awesome band I've stumbled across lately and have really fallen in love with, mainly because I'm a sucker for cutesy lo-fi female fronted indie pop and this band tick all those boxes! Bri Smith & Jes Seamans who have been friends and making music together since they were 13 years old, write quirky, stripped down pop songs that sound like a water fight on a hot summers day with all of your closest friends. Go! Listen! Buy the album here!

Romance conflict adventure

BEEN GONE A LOOOONG TIME

HEEEEEEEEEEEY wOW I have been a lazy little shit! I mean it really wouldn't have been too much effort to post something, anything in fact in the last two months! I could lie and say I've been really busy but to be honest I really haven't had the motivation! I put it down to post holiday blues..... the come down from escaping the reality of everyday life is a bitch! Especially when you go from a beautiful, exciting, colorful island filled with beautiful friendly people to a industrialized, boring, grey island filled with depressed, hostile, shit people. Reality really kicks you in the fucking face and shouts (in a Mr.t accent of course) "Fool! You thought you could replace me with sunshine and girls! Motherfucker I ain't going anywhere! Boy better know financial slavery, demeaning mc-jobs and a whole load of generation X-factor idiots is all you got ahead of you!" Le sigh....... Imma gonna start posting again.



Stumbled across Devin mcgrath on illustrophile the other day and I think his work is pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty good! Also I like his bio :-
"The Artist currently known as Devin McGrath is a modest man. Eschewing such terms as 'genius' and 'one man cultural zeitgeist', he has forged an artistic career that is the envy of his entire family. Compared by some critics to those elephants who have been trained to hold a paintbrush, his style is unmistakable and inimitable. With artistic impulse flowing through his veins like hepatitis, Devin McGrath's illustrations tell us of a man, with a keen eye; prehaps even two keen eyes and a skilled hand. It is, paradoxically, with this freakish and presumably hideous hand covered in eyes that he searches for the inherent beauty in everyday circumstance. McGrath has been described by Margaret Thatcher as 'That guy hiding in my garden' and by the government as a 'person of interest'. High praise indeed for someone so new to the illustration scene. Devin McGrath currently has two children and wants $500,000, or else...."
Check out his website here.



HEY! Do you like no age? ........Do you have an aversion to killing animals and wearing them on your feet?......Are your feet cold because of multiple holes in your shoes? If the answer is yes to any of these questions I have just the web page for you-------------> HERE.


Mixtape time again wooop! I hope people are actually downloading these as they take fucking ages to upload!

(pic by matt irwin)

!. Algernon cadwallader - Second-rate machines
@. Pretty girls make graves - The getaway
£. Thursday - Standing on the edge of summer
$. Japandroids - Wet hair
%. M83- Teen angst
^. Trentemoller - Moan
&. The postal service - Brand new colony
*. The changes - Her, you and I
!). Cursive - I couldn't love you anymore
!!. Minus the bear - Let's play guitar in a five guitar band
!@. The pixies - Hey
!£. Johnny foreigner - Caution! Vampires!
!$. Owls - Holy fucking ghost
!%. Life without buildings - The leanover
!^. Hot club de paris - Boy awaits return of the runaway girl
!&. Ra ra riot - Ghost under rocks
!*. Cocorosie - By your side
!(. The veils - Vicious traditions
@). Broken social scene - Lover's spit
@!. Bon Iver - Skinny love
@@. Death cab for cutie - I will follow you into the dark
@£. Bright eyes - You will. You?Will. You? Will. You?Will.
@$. Slow club - Christmas TV

a mixtape for.........

Totally crushing out

So Har Mar and Alia Shawkat (maybe, arrested development) are set to star in Ellen page's new hbo comedy about two hipsters who move from williamsberg to LA......... HMMMM twee alarm bells with tiny mustaches are a ringing! This is either going to be the best thing ever or utter fail....I'm leaning towards utter fail however I am a pessimist so I could be hella wrong. Check out the info on this HERE.

so I guess THIS is offensive now?

I had the pleasure of watching Brendon Burns perform in London last month with Josie long, Stewart Lee and Simon Amstell. Brendon headlined the night exploding onto the stage with a set that had me gasping for breath as I laughed so hard I cried. Brendon who won the famous if comedy award (previously called the Perrier award) in 2007 for the below posted show So I Suppose This Is Offensive Now will be appearing at the fringe festival on the 28th and 29th with his new show comedy good yeah silly side cunt.

so I suppose THIS is offensive now?

So continuing my mix tape series here is two that I made recently for my holiday! I have 6 days left till I fly and I am dying with fucking flu.....I have the worst luck ever.

The track list is a bit gappy as I have lost my hd with all my music on it so ID'ing the tracks in the mix is impossible if you can fill in the gaps message me!

1. The Rapture - Whoo! Alright! Yeah...uh....huh (claude vonstroke remix)
2. Rene van munster - working title
3. zomby - spliff dub (rustie remix)
4.???
5.???
6. south rawkus crew - mad again (boy 8 bit remix)
7. claude vonstroke - who's afraid of detroit (tanner ross remix)
8. ????
9. ???
10.???
11.???
12. robb g - 12 inch therapy (bass kleph dirty ows remix)
13. N.A.S.A - Whatchadoin (villains remix)
14. crookers- ???
15. hyper- no rockstars ( bass kleph remix)
16. D.I.M - You

Amixtapefor.....

Holidayin in ibiza


1. calories - A bear a bison
2. algernon cadwallader - yo soy milk
3. les savy fav - patty lee
4. death cab for cutie - crooked teeth
5. m83 - teen angst
6. cap'n jazz - we are scientist!
7. sublime - santeria
8. American football - never meant
9. native - something about swordsmanship
10. will it fly? - inemuri view
11. minus the bear - absinthe party at the fly honey warehouse
12. this town needs guns - want to come back to my room and listen to some belle and Sebastien?
13. Owen - skin and bones
14. Alexis on fire - Polaroids of polar bears
15. of sinking ships - the last signal
16. hopesfall - escape pod for intangibles
17. the postal service - we will become silhouettes
18. four tet - smile around the face
19. skream - dutch flowerz
20. cocorosie - god has a voice, she speaks through me

a mixtape for......

A complete beach experience



TOO funny! Some people got way too much time on their hands!



Here's some films I'm extremely excited about!!!!!

@ Yahoo! Video

Snowing is another new emo band that I've fallen in love with. The band features members of boy problems and street smart cyclist both of which I have previously mentioned in this blog. Check out there free diy released demo below for fans of cap'n jazz and as friends rust

SNOWING - FUCK YOUR EMOTIONAL BULLSHIT

BROOKERZZZZZZZZ

Charlie Brooker writes a review column for the Guardian, he was a writer on the amazingly brilliant paedophilia special of brasseye and then went on, along with Chris Morris, to write Nathan barley. All of this I knew however what had evaded me up until last week was his brilliantly brilliant shows screenwipe and newswipe! The fact that these shows have eluded me is probably down to me not watching bbc 4 or any TV in general for a very long time. However I still find it hard to believe that screenwipe, which has been running since 2006, has never been mentioned to me by anyone nor have I seen it reviewed on the Internet. Weird! Screenwipe, which first aired in april of 2006, is a look at all of TV. From the way it's edited to what amount of money is spent on a show to ratings to how TV is regulated. It's like a British version of pen and tellers bullshit except it just concentrates on a different area of TV each episode satirically tearing it to pieces with witty humor. Newswipe is essentially the same show except it concentrates on the UK news media. Another show worth checking out is his newest show "you have been watching" which airs Thursdays on channel 4 at 10pm.

SCREENWIPE

Series 1

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

Series 2

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

Series 3

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4

Series 4

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

Series 5

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5



NEWSWIPE

Episode 1 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)
Episode 2 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)
Episode 3 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)
Episode 4 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)
Episode 5 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)
Episode 6 (pt1) (pt2) (pt3)

I've been listening to a lot of Dubstep recently mainly due to the fact it's forced on me living with an 18 year sibling going through her adolesent loud fast (or in this case slow) music phase. One of the few producers that has made me pluck my ears up with intent is bristols joker. Being an electro head myself his computer game inspired productions appeal to me the most. Here is some info on joker from a 2007 introducing review by pitchfork, below is a set he did at sonar festival this year and a mix he did for skreams stella sessions on rinse fm.

JOKER'S 2009 SONAR SET

LISTEN OUT FOR HIM DROPPING WHO'S AFRAID OF DETROIT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS SET.....SICK.

SKREAMS STELLA SESSIONS

Tracklisting:

1-Natasja-ilderbrand i byen-2000F REMIX
2-Swagger-Benny Page
3-Snake Eater-Joker
4-You dont Know what love Is -2000F-JKamata
5-Solid state-Joker
6-Tempered-Rustie
7-Filth-Skream
8-Narsty Narsty Narsty-Scratcha.D.V.A
9-Get Ya Cock Out-Rusko
10-3K Lane-J@kes & Joker
11-Holly Brook Park-Joker
12-Sushi Brain-Headhunter
13-Konfusion dub-Kode9
14-Back 2 The Future-Gemmy
15-Need You-Darkstar
16-80s-Joker
17-Get up instrumental-Pinch

Talking about Claude vonstroke here is his new fabric cd! Full of wonky house techno music goodness as always! Just to reiterate I have not uploaded this album, I just found the link on another web page thnxcheersbye.

FABRIC 46 - CLAUDE VONSTROKE

"Because every little girl loves bambi"

Check out this new website entitled "Why the fuck do you have a kid?" It's full of unbelievable pictures of really bad parents. mega lolz.

Arrested development's David Cross (tobias) has written and started filming a new British TV show starring will arnett!!!!! "The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret" Has been picked up by channel 4 and is due to air in December! Written by Cross and English actor/comedian/writer Shaun Pye, 'Todd Margaret' is culture-clash comedy which centers on a U.S. executive protagonist who is mistakenly sent to Britain to run the company’s UK division and finds himself in over his head. The Russo Brothers, who helmed many episodes of "Arrested Development," directed the show's pilot which co-stars Cross himself, Amber Tamblyn, Sharon Horgan and Russell Tovey.

Apparently wild monkeys in India have gotten to be such a huge problem that the Indian government has suggested putting the most badly behaved monkeys into a behaviour school! I'm not sure if this is a joke or what? Surely they can't be serious?

"The problem of rogue monkeys is particularly severe in towns close to India's north-western border with Pakistan. Officials accuse them of a variety of bad behaviour from terrorising children, snatching food from people and destroying property... The proposed new monkey school will take in the "worst offenders" and put them through a crash course in good manners."

Indian school for monkeys!!!!!

Nailing descartes to the blog.....

Next month I will be partaking in the mass exodus of Britain that happens every summer commonly referred to by the average British proletariat as "Going on my summer holz". Although it makes no sense (at all!) To leave the country the only time of year when we get anything remotely like nice weather, I've booked a flight out of this bitch. So in preparation for lying on a beach while I drink alcohol poison inducing cocktails and cook till my imminent melanoma is actually audible, I decided a trip to the book shop was essential. Upon arriving I headed straight for the philosophy section intent on buying a book by the modern philosopher, Simon Critchley, who is featured in this months vice. Unfortunately they only had really really expensive Critchly hardbacks so I ended up buying some other philosophy books including Descartes most key writings for £3.99! One of the books, The Consolations of Philosophy, I noticed had been turned into a TV series a few years back for Channel 4, so not wanting to go over board on the book buying I decided to go home and look for the T.V. series. Well I found it and watched all 6 episodes last night and fuck me they're awesome! I strongly recommend you watch this entire series. It is full of extremely clever ideas about love/self esteem/ happiness/anger from some of the worlds brightest philosophers cleverly delivered by Alain De Botton author of the book. I seriously cannot recommend it enough.

1. Socrates on Self-Confidence

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

02. Epicurus on Happiness

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

03. Seneca on Anger

"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."

"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."

04. Montaigne on Self-Esteem

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."

"Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. "




05. Schopenhauer on Love

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."




06. Nietzsche on Hardship

" Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. "

" Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. "

I've decided to start a mixtape series! The series is called "a Mixtape for....." and will feature collections of songs for various situations. Hope you enjoy the first two....


01. Good clean fun - You gotta stay positive
02. Good clean fun - On the streets saving the scene
03. The Descendents - Coffee mug
04. Have heart - The unbreakable
05. Every time I die - Romeo a go-go
06. The Dillinger escape plan - We are the storm
07. The Hope conspiracy - Bled across the wire
08. The Number twelve looks like you - Blue dress
09. Glassjaw - Love bites and razor lines
10. Drowning man - The Unbearable burden of always being right
11. The Fall of troy - F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.
12 Hopesfall - The Bending

A mixtape for.......
STOPPING YOU FROM
FALLING ASLEEP, BEHIND THE WHEEL.
(Dedicated to Ceri)


01. Thursday - For the workforce, drowning.
02. Pretty girls make graves - Modern day Emma Goldman
03. Thrice - The Artist in the ambulance
04. Rise against - Heaven knows
05. Saves the day - You vandal
06. Rancid - Olympia Wa.
07. Propagandhi - Ska sucks
08. Me without you - January 1979
09. Minus the bear - Hey is that a ninja up there?
10. Tubelord - Night of the pencils
11. Hot club de paris - Let go of everything
12. Sublime - What I got
13. The Pharcyde - Drop

A mixtape for.......
SIPPING BEERS AT A BBQ

THE LONG WAIT IS OVER!
7 years, 5 albums 2 e.p's and 4 vinyl after the forming of the band, Math-core heavy weights the number 12 looks like you finally tour the U.K. in support of their newest album worse than alone. I'm not really that into their recent release so I'm hoping to god they play old songs! Which they fucking should do seeing as they've never been over before!

20/09/09 - Southhampton Joiners
21/09/09 - Newport TJ's
22/09/09 - Sheffield coporation
23/09/09 - Peterborough the met lounge
24/09/09 - Glasgow ivory blacks
25/09/09 - Aberdeen korova
26/09/09 - Leeds josephs well
27/09/09 - Manchester moho live
28/09/09 - Plymouth white rabbit
29/09/09 - Nottingham rock city
30/09/09 - London underworld

CLASSIC CLASSIC ALBUM

The number twelve looks like you - Put on your rosy red glasses




For ages vice has been getting worse and worse as most of their best writers have anticipated the wandering fickle attention spans of hipsters everywhere and jumped ship. Gavin Haynes however is still great and his most recent article interviewing girls who support the BNP party is pure fucking gold, check it out here read the comments at the bottom as well funny shit!



A while back I mentioned that I had engineered an awesome band in work called will it fly? Well I finally managed to get my hands on two tracks off their forth coming E.P! The untitled E.P is set to be released this september and will feature 6 songs. Anyone who likes the style of the bands I blog about will definitely like these guys. I intend on putting on a show in the near future for these guys and another couple of awesome bands (Rico and the thieves check them out!) so when I get around to organising it I'll keep you updated! For fans of minus the bear American football and texas is the reason.

Will it fly? - Inemuri view

Will it fly? - The coin has spoken