Culture Vulture Zine

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAVIN

THIS PICTURE IS DEDICATED TO YOU SIR (N.b. Gav really likes trains)…

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BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEBIRDS

Tommorow’s the Cup Final. THE CUP FINAL. Will we ever see Cardiff City play an FA Cup Final in our lifetime again? Will we ever see Ledley + Ramsey in the City shirt again?

Are these days more exciting than these?

ACTUAL CONVERSATION THAT JUST OCCURED IN WORK:

PERSON AT WORK: NICK? WHAT HAVE YOU GOT ON?
N: A GREY SHIRT
PAW: HAHAHAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY IT SMELT LIKE GUCCI!
N: EH?

I LOVE WORK. HERE’S MY CARD…

This weather has allowed Sunday’s Bessemer Rd Car Boot Sale to fulfil his potential & become the beast he threatened to be. My digging paid off as I found the following bargains:

Pink Floyd ‘Dark Side…’ - £2

Lou Reed ‘Transformer’ – 50p

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born To Run’ - £1

I acknowledge that it’s perhaps not as cool as it was to like classic albums – nowadays it’s a bit more bad-ass to hunt for Polish funk or Greek psych on picture disc or something. I though still enjoy a classic album. Also, I walked past Spillers Records yesterday and saw this sign in the window. ‘This is nice’ I thought.

This weekend I was in Stokes Croft, Bristol eating pies & browsing in Here Gallery –Which is an independent shop come art gallery selling all kinds of books/comics/zines/records/handmade things (AKA stuff which I regularly blow cash I don’t have on). I could’ve blown my entire budget for that afternoon’s visit to the zoo there and then as I wanted everything I clapped eyes on from zines to comics and a pretty looking Margeret Kilgallen book which made eyes at me. Cardiff needs a shop like this.

I also spotted CV on the shelves. That’s it there below Bust + above Nude.

When I was tired of my heads ‘should I/shouldn’t I buy this?’ debate we ambled downstairs to see Kev Grey’s ‘Everlasting Arms’ exhibition featuring crisp and clean images of Daggers, skulls, mean looking ladies and snakes. They’d make good tats.

In Stokes Croft a great option for sustenance is Pieminister. We ploughed through a Heidi (goats’ cheese/sweet potato/spinach/red onion) and Wild Mushroom respectively, each with mash and ‘groovy’. To Samantha this was equal to a gourmet candle lit meal. See Pieminister montage below…

I’ll have to bring the Bristol Zoo visit up another time – I’m still trying to work out whether the place is a force for good or evil.

This is C…

She’s probably the coolest person in the world. This is her Top 5:

Introducing The Megatron…

He accommodates all your televisual remote control needs in one handy package (TV, SKY, DVD/VCR) – I made him last night with tape. His shelflife is so far unconfirmed. The design work is ongoing. Here’s The Megatron in action last night during the Barca v Madrid ‘El Grande Classico’ in which Real pummelled Barcelona to the point of embarrassment…

In other news, this time regarding what music people like – The long coming Flight of The Conchords studio album is available to listen to in full via myspace. It’s not as raw as the F’ING RAD TV programme or live bootleg + is too polished in my opinion BUT would still blow up the mind of someone unfamiliar with FOTC. The record’s out on Monday + the new television series of FOTC airs January 09. A good option in a party setting but I’d suggest watching the DVD instead.

Via adopting the role of casual driving instructor, I somehow found myself in Swansea this week. All of which is f’ing strange and that previous sentence has never been used by me before, trust me. I agree with Terry the dodgy copper in Twin Town when he rants on Dylan Thomas labelling Swansea ‘An ugly lovely town’ declaring it himself to be a ‘Pretty shitty city’. Anyway, I was bored and on my own so I had to buy things. In this desperate time I ended up browsing (I’m not a browser) in HMV (I never go in HMV) and I ended up buying two CDs (I never buy CDs, It’s not my format of choice anymore) .

I love Woody Guthrie, but only have bits & bobs, so I went all out (Guthrie-wise) & got the ‘best of’. I’ve wanted ‘Brazilica’ for ages too & it delivers.

I also bought a phat/fat deluxe book on Graffiti, which I’m obsessed with at the moment…

More on Graffiti/this book in the future NBloggyBlogs (I think I’m on the verge of becoming a graffiti artist)

Samanth bought this mantle runner from Laura Ashley (Well…I think it was that shop anyway). It’s damn nice, but she could make better I told her (except it’d take about 17 years).

There’s a new communal art project on the go called SHOE TALES which I contributed to, encouraging people to share tales of shoes. If you have a memorable pair of kicks tell their story with a doodle, a picture or words and send it in (info is on the website). These people have…

That’s my contribution at the bottom there. To see it bigger click on this bit. I chose Puma Kings, but have since wished i’d done something about Orange Star Valsports. Entries are in the process of being uploaded to see on the Shoe Tales webbed site - Which by the way is looking pretty sharp.

The National Library wrote to me asking for copies of CV for blah blah blah blah blah. Anyway, I thought there was something comical about a librarian there writing out ‘The Cave 2′ as part of the address. Bless them.

One thing you can guarantee from Cardiff on a Sunday is drizzle which makes for inconsistent car boot sale attendances. I’ve had to postpone a jaunt for the third week in a row, left instead with the mirage of scorching hot summer Sundays when Bessemer Rd is rammed. That wont be for a while though by the looks of things.

It’s not a normal Sunday because of the Bank Holiday, so Sunday records are a bit different today. I’m playing a mixed concoction thus far…