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Here for the quiet life. But always with a soundtrack
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David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.

Privatised water has failed. Just look at your water bills or the sewage pouring into our rivers. Steve Reed - include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

Take a break, Driver 8, with this killer comp of live '85 R.E.M. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7766495...

Just remembering this fb marketplace beauty.

Newfound respect for the Butthole Surfers

I've been making TV titles for decades now, and I'm still waiting for the day I have a hand in anything half as atmospheric and affecting as the opening credits for second tier drama anthology Shadows of Fear. Twenty seconds of pure visual poetry. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

Michael Rother's Flammende Herzen has become a bit of a family favourite in our house. Conny produces and Jaki on drums too. Magic

Here's a tribute from @charlotteivers.bsky.social, in which she retreads the Fourth Doctor's steps in Soho www.the-fence.com/bakers-dozen/

Haunted Tewkesbury

#fallfriday A big shot's voice in his ears Worlds of silence in his ears All the numbers account for years Checks the cards through eyes of tears youtu.be/u3ZvO4pcTHs?... Photograph Kevin Cummins

Kind of interesting that Google has simply stopped being embarrassed by this sort of thing

Butterburn Court multi, Dundee, April 1985. Photo Neale Elder

Some of Edward Bawden's designs for Christmas wrapping paper, 1960. National Galleries Scotland

Anyway, how about a new rare early 1974 Can clip? Uploaded a few days back, allegedly from a random eBay purchase.

Stunningly poor punctuation from McVitie’s. “‘Hòb.ńob’,s”? Come on.

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

It’s that time again.