A short, sweet Spotify playlist that I put together. All songs guranteed to provide a pleasanty warming glow.

Ghost Train, Summer Camp
Good Dancers, The Sleepy Jackson
Let’s Go Surfing, The Drums
Home, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Stop Ou Encore, Plastic Bertrand
That Certain Female, Charlie Feathers
Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken, Camera Obscura

(Excuse the mildly un-PC title, but it’s a Barleyism, innit).

Image via Arquivo Fabriek)

Love Jarvis. Don’t always manage to catch his show on Sunday afternoon. Work block iPlayer and the BBC take it down before you get a chance to listen.

Hands up if this sounds familiar.

Well, I may have found the answer – Cocker’s Sunday Service Archive. This site allows you to download the shows he has made for 6 Music as MP3 files. So that’s no more worrying about missing another of Mr Cocker’s supreme broadcasts, because you can listen to it at your leisure.

One thing to mention, not all shows have a file to download yet. If you can help right this wrong, the author of the site would love to hear from you. Get in touch via the site.

Photo by Timothy Cochrane.

For the last few months Krent Able’s comic strips have been one of the first things I turn to when I get my new copy of The Stool Pigeon. Totally sick (old and new sense of the owrd), beautifully drawn and very funny.

Check out a larger size of the comic here.

I see a Quentin Blake illustration, I’m taken back to being a child. I really do love his drawings.

via The Guardian.

Reasons for this post:

1. How fucking cool is this picture? Two giants of the rock world just looking as cool as fuck.
2. And look at the facial hair these two are sporting. I promise that one day, I too will proudly own a face every bit as hirsute as Ellis’ is in this picture.
3. To share the style advice of the aforementioned Warren Ellis. I spotted this interview on The Quietus a couple of weeks back and just found what he had to say about getting older and how your dressing habits change pretty spot on.

P.S. I get to see these guys play in October (Grinderman, Hammersmith Apollo), it’ll be bloody immense. Fans of the Roman Empire should check out the poster.

After spending most of the year apart from Spotify (those buggers in IT claim that it was eating up all the office bandwidth, so set up firewalls to block it – well fuck you IT, I found out the proxy password to get round your stupid firewall) I have recently had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with this glorious treasure trove of music.

To celebrate I thought I’d make a playlist. Then I had a little brainwave, why not put it on the blog I thought (obviously I’m not the first to have this thought, check out the +KN Mixcast) so everyone could enjoy my immaculate music taste too. There’s no theme to this one, just a collection of songs that I’ve been really enjoying over the last few months and weeks. Hope you like it

So here you go; click here for the playlist link and see below for the track list.

You’ve got to be in it to win it
Silver trembling hands, The Flaming Lips
Hideaway, Karen O and the Kids
You will find me, Micah P. Hinson
No pussy blues, Grinderman
Fix up, look sharp, Dizzee Rascal
The overachievers, Liars
Roadrunner, The Modern Lovers
All the kings men, Wild Beasts
Falling and laughing, Orange Juice
Inbetweenies, Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Digital, Joy Division
Zero, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Odessa, Caribou
Alphabet aerobics, Blackalicious
Bassline, Mantronix
Oh it’s you, Super Cat
Ali Baba, John Holt
54-46 Was my number, Toots and the Maytals

One day, I want to have the chance to be involved with creating a brand that needs untold elements to all work in perfect harmony with one another to function effectively. Where the process of managing all these decisions will not be rushed through or underestimated and in fact be valued as something that is essential for an organisation to be portrayed seriously and professionally to its users or customers.

Anyway, I spotted this on Brand New. Check out the post, it’s a great analysis of an attractive piece of branding.

You wait an age for an age for a post about the London Underground, and then I go and post about it twice in the space of twenty-four hours, bit like London buses I guess!

Now, I’m not sure if you’ll have spotted them on the Tube yet, but TfL have recently launched a series of posters. Going under the title “Tube or False’ they pose questions like ‘every week our escalators travel the equivalent of twice around the world’ with the answers being available on the TfL site.

I think it’s a great idea. A poster that provokes a bit of interaction from passengers is a good thing and once again I’m really impressed with the design of the range. Patterns from the network’s seat upholstery have been used as backgrounds to the questions which not only looks great, but ties the posters back in with the Underground – a really nice touch.

For all the questions, and their answers, click through to the TfL site.

To put it simply, it would be a dream of mine to be allowed to tour around the disused and abandoned Underground stations of London (of  which apparently, there are many).

I think that these posters are pretty much the reason I’d love to do this so much, it’s kind of like a snap shot of life from the past.

How amazing then would it have been to be the guy that made this discovery? A tunnel that had remained unused and forgotten since the 1950′s at Notting Hill Gate station, the posters that remain dating it beautifully.

See all the pictures on Mike Ashworth’s Flickr.

Bit of an update; just perusing the fabulous Going Underground blog, and apparently there is one plucky indidvidual that is aiming to make access to London’s disused stations a reality. Read all about it here.

TV dinner – love eyes on stuff that doesn’t need eyes.

By Bnice2mice, via FFFFOUND.