Like Abba said, I had a dream
They say other peoples’ dreams are boring. But I would also suggest that they are also boring. Saying other peoples’ dreams are boring is boring. Not sure that entirely means we’ve come around to...
View ArticleBandstand
I’m starting a new ongoing project on the site today. It’s called Bandstand. Hopefully I’ll keep this going until I have done every single band that exists, has existed, and will ever exist. That last...
View ArticleOne pixel Beatles album sleeves
The image above is every Beatles album (the UK albums) reduced in Photoshop to one pixel in size. (So they are easier to see, I then increased each pixel to a 20 pixel square.) Below are three rows....
View ArticleShakira thanks her lucky stars
Well, I stand up next to a mountain And I chop it down with the edge of my hand “Voodoo Chile” Jimi Hendrix Lucky that my breasts are small and humble So you don’t confuse them with mountains...
View ArticleNew Boots and Panties!!
I started this about a year ago, and added a little more now and again. Finally, it’s finished. It’s a series of ten drawings: one for each of the songs on Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ wonderful album...
View ArticleNew Moon on Monday
Back in 2008, when I was travelling around the Americas—when this blog was good—I noticed that there was a new moon on a Monday. I made a note to write about the Duran Duran song New Moon on Monday...
View ArticleRhinestone Cowboy
At a wedding in Berlin in 2002, I drunk-karaoked Rhinestone Cowboy. Please enjoy.
View ArticleSweet version of “Also sprach Zarathustra”
This version, by Eumir Deodato, apparently won a Grammy in 1973. But then, Skrillex has won Grammys so the award is pretty meaningless. (via the excellent Things Magazine)
View ArticleWhere the Streets Have No Name
I had this dream last night that I was in a city somewhere east of Europe. There were narrow shaded streets and big open areas where the sun was roasting. I was eating nuts and the adhan was being...
View ArticleUSA for Africa
I did this drawing a few weeks ago. The idea was to not do any re-drawing. Just draw once and hope it comes out alright. Some are, as you would imagine, terrible. But I kinda like the drawings of...
View ArticleOhrwurm
I often wake up with a song in my head. Pretty much every day. Most days in fact. Probably not alone in that. It’s not like I skip out of a bed with a song in my heart. Quite the opposite. I get out of...
View ArticleShe can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black
She can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint the daytime black “She Belongs to Me,” Bob Dylan, 1965 Link
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