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Monthly Archives: September 2012

MUSIC OF COLOUR & MIND

Monday, September 3, 2012

A few years ago I was trying to explain to a restless companion why I was having trouble tearing myself away from an ocean view, the blues and greens rippling like persistent organ chords. ‘Do you know what synaesthesia is?’ I started, readying once again to out myself as a freak of nature, or worse. [...]

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TINTA DE LA CASA

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Slow Journalism – ‘Magazines that take their time’ – is the theme of the latest evening hosted by our friends at Tinta de la Casa, who organise irregular talks and events around independent publishing. For the first time at the lovely Reading Room by Do Your Read Me?!, Tinta de la Casa will take place [...]

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TWO ALBUMS FOR LONG DRIVES

Sunday, September 2, 2012

If you’re planning a long drive I can recommend these two albums: Hot Chip’s In Our Heads and Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave. If you’re staying in: Hot Chip’s Night and Day has an amusing video by Peter Serafinowicz featuring Terence Stamp, Reggie Watts and Lara Stone.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 14: MR J STEVENS

Saturday, September 1, 2012

As we are working on a certain book project with a certain Robert Montgomery (and good gracious, you people are so GENEROUS!), our eyes and ears have become sharpened to the rhymes and lyrics that can be found in the everyday. For instance, who would have thought that a new BIC pen, the BIC For [...]

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September

Saturday, September 1, 2012

As you should know by now, we’re smooth talkers and we indeed shave our faces, so let’s quote Rilke (translated by Gass) to bid farewell to summer 2012 together: Lord, it is time. The summer was too long. / Lay your shadow on the sundials now, / and through the meadow let the winds throng. [...]

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