Takashi Murakami- Mr. Cloud.
He used to meditate between the orientalism of the west and the fetishizing of western progress found in Japan. With the mushroom cloud deaths head bunny (1) he asked Japan if they could make anything cute, with My Lones[…]

Something Rainy just messaged to me made me look something up, and I realised that this was prefigured on this thread: in other words, yet again an idea I fondly thought I had had all by myself was had earlier (as usual by Alan T). Still: “no-t[…]

Days of plenty: autumn brings blessed relief from the sluggish summer art season. I spent this weekend trawling the still-sunny streets of London for exciting new stuff. And found it. The greatest thrill is finding a new artist who’s doing some[…]

Quarks And Charms: the “Blogosphere” just keeps on grrrrrrrowing. (Though I prefer Simon R’s other coining, “music press in exile”, both for its chest-puffing qualities and the vision it summons of a bunch of squabbling,[…]

Striker vs The Sun – from the Striker comic’s official news website (via Parallax View). I’d resisted picking up a copy of Striker precisely because I’d assumed it was a News International publication – but no, it’[…]

The new teacher training ad, with its somewhat child-unfriendly image of headless people wandering around, is unlikely to help recruitment. “Oi” – it is saying – “you, in the braindead masses. Why not do the only job in […]

Leakedalbums.com: the embryo of a very good idea indeed – systematically finding out which albums have leaked, pointing you at them and writing about them. So far the site seems fairly tethered to what a typical ILM reader (or as typical a read[…]

Some people gave up on the chips in The Calthorpe Arms when the chicken nuggets ran out and they were plainly cold and soggy. Only mine and Steve’s uniquely British eye for hidden fat noticed tiny spots of congealing dripping for chip dipping. […]

I have a US Pocket Book edition of Jeeves by P.G.Woodehouse. I am not sure what Jeeves it is, I am pretty sure there wasn’t a Woodehouse book just called Jeeves, but it is certainly Jeeves and Bertie in their inimitable fashion; the latter gett[…]

KILLER MIKE – A.D.I.D.A.S.
Being not a song about his stinky trainers, though I daresay this is the only aspect of him which is truly a killer, but rather his mental processes. Cleverly this footwear advert is an acronym for All Day I Dream Abo[…]