Kieron Gillen has just posted his Top 40 of 2009 – filled with some delicious commenty things, helpful video links and completed by a Spotify playlist. Not OF 2009, but HIS 2009 listening.
This year I was happy to pick up a bunch of issues of Phonogram: The Singles Club, formed by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. ‘Music comics’ sounds a bit of a lame idea, but that really can’t be applied to Phonogram at all. The first GN, Phonogram: Rue Britannia was a massively amazing creation and thrust it’s way firmly into my all time favourite books, centering on the Magick of musics, Britpop and with all kinds of delights for someone like myself who grew and formed Herself in the Nineties. The Singles Club is based in a modern day club and explores the same night from the views of each of the main players involved. Each issue seethes with music and lyrics, wrapping itself around a different character each issue, protagonists all to a complicated and human rhythm.
Anyway, it’s a good and varied list, too. And the man usually knows what he’s talking about. I swear.

SasKast3 – Right click, Save As…

I CAN HAS BERLINER

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Right-click, Save As… You know the drill!

http://www.tinyplasticstars.co.uk/malsain/SasKast.mp3

Retro Thing: Sir Clive’s really small TV.

It’s pretty awesome to think about it. Tiny portable TVs.  My Grandad had one when I was younger and I remember trying to get it to work in a caravan in Cornwall, but the reception wasn’t good in the middle of a field.

It may not seem like much, now that you can watch movies on the bus with less than pocket-sized devices, but I still think it’s hot stuff.

Pondering Brewfest. Bratwurst, but no pretzels :(