Last Sunday was so dreary and grey that it seemed as good a day as any to break the DJ silence and record my first new mix in years. I wasn’t sure what really would come out when I started, but after all was faded and sliced, I think I picked up right where I left off.
With a newfound love of black metal and a continued affection for minimal drone, I’m happy to present you with almost 35 minutes of the sometimes electronic, always psychedelic, Village Green Decimation Society (right-click link to download or stream in the player below).
Track listing:
Burzum - Spell Of Destruction
ABBA - Arrival
Eric Copeland - Scraps
Eyeless In Gaza - Avenue With Trees
Luboš Fišer - The Sermon
Luboš Fišer - The Visit
Skip Spence - Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
Sewer Election - White Golgotha
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Heaven Is The Notion That All This Will End
Steve Bradley - Forces In 2 Dimension
Skull Defekts - Acid Animal
Stephen O’Malley & Z’ev - 14m 10s From 1m From 22s - 1m 22s - 28 Track Submix
It’s no secret that I haven’t been very creatively active lately, but Rin has been overflowing with ideas ever since…. well, I think ever since we first ate okonomiyaki at Abeno several weeks ago. Perhaps that is the secret! It must work differently for different people, because while I do love it (especially with noodles, bacon and cheese), it just makes me happy and sleepy rather than inspired to design cool t-shirts.
And design a cool t-shirt she has! Everyone’s favourite Chicago-based t-shirt company has accepted one of her submissions and released it for voting. If enough of a favourable response is given, they’ll crown her Queen of America and put her face on the ten dollar bill, since no one remembers Alexander Hamilton anyway.
You only have a few days to vote for her, so go do it now! Go to http://www.threadless.com/blogsub/149755/Snail_Mail and if you’re not already a user, you may have to register, but it’s easy. Leave a nice comment about her shirt design, tick the box saying that you’ll buy it, and on the scale of 1 to 5, rate it a big fat 5. Also, please go and actually buy it if it wins, because if you don’t you’ll be a liar, and we kick liars square in the nuts.
Whilst my favourite posts have been about music, Web 2.0™ and pie, strangely one of this blog’s most frequently read articles is one that I wrote earlier this year about flat caps. It has put me in touch with several fantastic flat cap fanatics who I never even would have known existed had I not accidentally appointed myself as their unlikely poster child.
As unintentional as my flat cap fame is, I still must bear the fashion responsibility that it bestows upon me, and when serious issues strike the flat cap community, I need to respond. Recently I have noticed that some flat cap owners seem to not understand how to properly wear them. Granted, it can be rather confusing, as they easily fit on the head in up to as many as two possible positions. My beloved grey Kangol didn’t even come with instructions!
With this in mind, I have prepared the following diagram to illustrate how to properly don your flat apparel without looking like a twat*:
* Please note that Samuel L. Jackson is the only human being in existence allowed to wear his flat cap however he chooses without being guilty of twattiness. This is because no one who values their life should ever consider calling Samuel L. Jackson a twat.
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