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(Photo from bright light)
The setlist from Mogwai’s Manchester show on Saturday night. Can it happen again, please?

(Photo from bright light)

The setlist from Mogwai’s Manchester show on Saturday night. Can it happen again, please?

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They played ‘Mogwai Fear Satan’ as their second song. It was a good night.

They played ‘Mogwai Fear Satan’ as their second song. It was a good night.

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(via nussbaum : beckypierson : obscureallure : thegordianknot)

I always sway between INTJ and INFJ. So, I’m a cross between House and Batman?
That I can live with.

(via nussbaum : beckypierson : obscureallure : thegordianknot)

I always sway between INTJ and INFJ. So, I’m a cross between House and Batman?

That I can live with.

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The new bus timetable has maybe 50 pages. This is now the most important photo on my phone (Weeknights Only).

The new bus timetable has maybe 50 pages. This is now the most important photo on my phone (Weeknights Only).

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Paradise City

Paradise City

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The Dark One

Anamanaguchi

Anamanaguchi — The Dark One

If you forced me to choose, I’d pick this as my favourite track from Anamanaguchi’s awesomely-enjoyable soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World videogame.

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There’s a story behind this photo.
Earlier today, I was standing outside and looking up at the moon, which was clearly visible in the cloudless, blue, early-afternoon sky. As I was gazing up at this celestial body, a seagull flew across the sky, with its wings skimming the moon from my perspective. I thought about how that might have made a good photograph, if I’d had a camera ready.
As I was already looking up anyway, and as the moon wasn’t going anywhere, I started to follow the seagull as it slowly glided around the sky in lazy, graceful loops. Then the seagull shat, and the sky was so blue that it was easy to watch the white shit fall all the way to the ground, which seemed to take longer than it should. It was so quiet outside that I thought I might be able to hear it hit the ground but, unfortunately, I didn’t.
Then I took this photo of the moon and a bit of tree with my phone.
I never said it was a good story.

There’s a story behind this photo.

Earlier today, I was standing outside and looking up at the moon, which was clearly visible in the cloudless, blue, early-afternoon sky. As I was gazing up at this celestial body, a seagull flew across the sky, with its wings skimming the moon from my perspective. I thought about how that might have made a good photograph, if I’d had a camera ready.

As I was already looking up anyway, and as the moon wasn’t going anywhere, I started to follow the seagull as it slowly glided around the sky in lazy, graceful loops. Then the seagull shat, and the sky was so blue that it was easy to watch the white shit fall all the way to the ground, which seemed to take longer than it should. It was so quiet outside that I thought I might be able to hear it hit the ground but, unfortunately, I didn’t.

Then I took this photo of the moon and a bit of tree with my phone.

I never said it was a good story.

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Dan's Song

Frank Turner

Frank Turner — Dan’s Song

Taken from his Poetry of the Deed album, this song is about getting older, starting to feel that you’re wasting your life, and trying to do something about that. It’s one of those common themes that everyone can relate to, but that doesn’t make the feeling any less real to anyone.

As a guy in his early thirties, with an embarrassingly under-stamped passport, who is facing probable redundancy in the next three months, this song really hits the spot for me.

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'Remember Sarajevo' by Roger Richards

A collection of photographs and stories from Roger Richards’ time inside the city during the Siege of Sarajevo, including this heartbreaker:

They are beautiful kids, delighting in their conspiracy of fearlessness, grinning, flashing the two-fingered victory sign, jostling to be center-frame. They live nearby. They tell me, in gestures, that they have something to show me, and I follow them into the apartment house in which they live, a modern, half-ruined building that is under almost constant artillery barrage.

Two of them, a pretty dark-haired 12-year-old named Lana and an 11-year-old named Sanja, speak understandable English. They said they had learned the language from their parents, and from television.

Tugging at my hand, Lana leads me into the dank basement of this building that is a target for Serb sharpshooters and mortar teams. The basement is black, but the children negotiate its passageways expertly, pulling me along. Candle wax is scarce and must be conserved. Finally, when we are at our destination, someone puts a match to a wick, and by its tentative flicker I see four small shelves on the wall, each about two feet long.

“Our library,” says Lana proudly.

Arranged in neat rows, lovingly kept, are children’s books, mostly in Serbo-Croatian, some in English. I recognize “Heidi,” and “Little Women,” and “Alice in Wonderland” and a small collection of Doctor Seuss. On the wall above this cache of happy literature is a crude sign, little-kid style, in crayon letters of alternating color.

It says, in Serbo-Croatian, “Children’s War Library.”

And around me stand the librarians, ages 4 to 14, smiling proudly, their smudged faces barely visible in the light of a single tin candle in a bleak bunker beneath a besieged building in a place gone mad. They are the slender hope of Sarajevo.

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In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)

Pixies

Pixies — In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)

Taken from their Pixies at the BBC album, this was recorded for John Peel in 1988.

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