Just a quick little link dump today as I have managed to pull a muscle in my back/shoulder region which makes typing a tad uncomfortable.
- I bought Elephants On Acid & Other Bizarre Experiments as a Christmas present for a good friend of mine. I based my purchase entirely on this line from an Amazon review: “Personally, I feel that the first chapter is ill-placed as it’s heavy on the animal decapitation and I think that might put some people off”. Not that my friend is into animal decapitation, but he would find it interesting, if you know what I mean.
- Oh, stereotyping! Stereotyping People By Their Favourite Indie Bands and Stereotyping People By Their Favourite Author try to pigeon-hole people (in a humorous way, it should be said). So I’m a gay man living in Brooklyn who likes wearing hunter green (or I’m everyone).
- The Hype Machine has collated data on the fifty bands/artists most frequently blogged about in 2009. It’s not that interesting, except the list is accompanied by stunning artwork commissioned especially for this list. My favourite is Jamie McKelvie’s artwork for the La Roux entry. McKelvie’s one of the creative brains behind the wonderful Phonogram comics which I strongly recommend if you are an ageing Britpop relic like myself.
- The Geeky Tattoos Blog is showcasing a knitting tattoo (for knitting is geeky, apparently). The entire blog is worth a browse, although I’m slightly scared by the amount of bad anime tats I see. Thanks, Z. for sending me the link.
- And, finally, I’m halfway in love with this dress though I struggle to explain why.
Yeah, you’re right … the custom artwork in that “50 greatest” thing is rather fab. (Though, I am a little surprised to see that I actually own CDs with 5 of the artists/bands in the top10 *chuckle*)