Swivel Chair: Beautiful Losers?
At least that’s what Nude Magazine thought, who printed this brief version of my ‘I Was a Swivel Chair’ story: Name: Swivel Chair. Town: Edinburgh, Scotland. Years: 1999-2004 Influences: KLF, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division. Career Highlight: Our third triumphantly drunken gig.. Lowpoint: Our fourth disastrously drunken gig. Line Up: Craig Low (bass, samples) Milo ...
Blog Profile: Fred Egg Comics (plus review of ‘Dump’ & Oink! video)
As my Twitter and Facebook friends will already know, a couple of weeks back I did a guest video post about Oink! Comic, one of my favourites when I was a kid, for the excellent Fred Egg Comics blog. The blog, which is proving to be a great re-introduction to the world of comics for ...
Mini blog post about Star Wars mini amigurumi
My girlfriend is into her craft stuff and found these cool Star Wars mini amigurumi created by Lucy Ravenscar who can be found at: http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com/ Excellent work Lucy!
Ten Tracks/Fanzine tie-in
Yes, if you’re on the Ten Tracks mailing list you’ll already be aware of this, but for those that aren’t, you can now get the PDF version of the Products of a Gaseous Brain Spring 2010 Catalogue free to download when you buy the I Hear a New World bundle over at Ten Tracks. ...
Zine Review!
My pal Nick has written a great post about the first issue of the Products of a Gaseous Brain zine which has provoked some interesting comments. As well as writing for his own rather nifty looking blog, Nick is also joint editor of the Scotman’s popular Under the Radar blog and contributes to a bunch ...
The Gaseous Brain Guide to the iPhone
An iPhone ponce, yesterdayFinally, by popular demand (well two people expressed a vague interest), I present my ultimate guide to Steve Jobs’ expensively addictive hand-extension for show-offs. This has been a long-time coming because to be honest it was turning into an incredibly dreary piece of slavering apple fanboi tedium, but I think the finished ...
Consumption vs Creativity
They Live – John Carpenter As a self-styled “creative person”, how can I get a balance between the amount of media I consume on a daily basis, and actually producing something creative myself? I’m an avid reader, whether it be ye olde fashioned tree-books or ye new fangled blog posts via google reader, or various ...