“THAT’S NOT WRITING, THAT'S TYPING”

Hi folks –

Rest assured I’m still doing my utmost to get one decent weblog post up here a week, and if you bear with me a few days, I’m currently working my way through a mammoth round-up of last weekend’s End Of The Road festival, ETA next Monday.

So much stuff I want to write about, so little time; I want to write a bit about Ian Svenonius’ “The Psychic Soviet”, and about Keiron Gillen’s “Phonogram” comic book, I want to finally get around the next couple of entries in my 1998 series, I want to do bits on The Mekons and The Germs, and it’s totally about time I recorded a new radio show…

It’s been bloody frustrating in work the last couple of days; I’ve mainly been on grunt work, stuffing envelopes and such, whilst desperately searching the net for interesting pages with lots of text on them to fend off boredom (being in work, music, videos and other multimedia stuff are off-limits, so it’s words all the way). As my brain is largely free to roam, I’ve been itching to get writing, but have sadly had to utilise both hands doing work.

So to keep you occupied whilst I get my act together, here are a few recent webzine/blog discoveries that have been getting me through the day;

Black To Comm ; A weblog off-shoot from the renowned rock n’ roll fundamentalist fanzine – much smart, free-flowing write on all manner of good random stuff to be found within.

Final Girl ; Now, as you know, I’m mostly into my weirdo ‘60s/’70s horror movies, and have some issues with ‘80s slasher flicks, but regardless, WHAT A GREAT BLOG.

Bleeding Skull ; Again, I have no ethical/artistic justification for a fascination with ultra-trashy video nasty era exploitation obscurities, but when a website like this offers a pathway straight to the belly of the beast, I…just…can’t… help myself…. And they feature a lot of really far-out older movies too, so drink deep weirdos.

Destination: Out ; First stop for anyone seeking an appreciation of free jazz and associated avenues of music and thought; peerless wordage, peerless music.

Jamie’s Runout Groove ; Frequently updated, no-nonsense music blog often featuring some real good stuff. His Neil Young discography strand makes great comfort reading for Neilophiles such as myself.

The Movie Binge ; My sole source of info on popular contemporary cinema, and I feel in good hands. I think they might have finished for this year though…? Oh well.

Stevie Chick ; Definitely one of the longstanding good guys in current music journalism, and he republishes a lot of his stuff on here, so.. good!

And finally, it’s a joy to discover that the inestimable Kid Millions has started blogging again on the Oneida website.

So – I’ll be back with you shortly, and in the meantime… surely you wouldn’t hit a guy who just shared one of the best pop records ever with you…?

The Ronettes – Do I Love You?

I guess Spector almost certainly done it and is going down, but man, 20 seconds into this and I’m hoping they take it easy on him…

Labels: announcements, The Ronettes, weblog round-ups