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This is the best image I have seen today:

In the spirit of this image, if you leave a comment, I will respond with your very own set of free instructions.

I have no particular axe to grind here, I’m just curious about something. According to my LJ profile page, there are 284 people who read my journal. Allowing for people who won’t see this because they have filtered me away for doing nothing but posting links, dead journals, people who have lives and don’t compulsively read LJ and people who just can’t be arsed filling in a one question poll, I figure this give me a potential respondent pool of up to three people, which is enough to at least satisfy my curiosity.

See, I know a lot of people who will chin strokingly talk about Jackson’s impact on pop music and how “he may have been a bit of a freak but those first two albums…” (I include myself in this number), and my friends list today is full of tasteless jokes, grief stricken comment, and other responses to his death but I don’t know how many of those commenting actually own any of his albums, and as I say I’m curious:

NB: if you own more than one copy of an album for some reason, please only count that album once.

Which is always a happy occasion. Because I am a smug bastard, on a very old price plan that I have stubbornly refused to change because they don’t offer anything like it at the moment, I get 65 tracks a month for a tenner.

But still: I like to use Emusic for getting exciting new music. Because I’m paying anyway, I figure I might as well use it to get new stuff.

So, if you’re of a mind, recommend me stuff I won’t have heard of. I’m not genre picky, so go for anything. (If you’ve got the time and inclination to check it’s available on there, that would be ace.) But please: take the time to tell me why the artists in question are ace, and pick out some tracks you particularly think I should check out – if I get enough interesting recommendation, I may just grab a few tracks per artists this month, and then grab albums in future months…

Go! Tell me of your modern music!

I was astonished to discover that there are people in the world who haven’t heard this, and very specifically that one of them is tyrell, who, I suspect will be cheering along with this. So I am posting it, just in case anyone else hasn’t heard it, because as far as I’m concerned, this should be played in every school in the country as part of a balanced RE syllabus.

And many more works of the Special Unicorn Tattoo Magic (including an old favourite) available here.

Abandoned industrial/warehouse space in London. I would really like to do some photoshoots in derelict industrial/warehouse space, or on largely empty industrial estates. Anyone know of anywhere that would fit this bill that I can make arrangements to use that won’t see us having to scale fences to break in and/or getting chased off by security guards?

Hell, I’m even willing to sign indemnity paperwork and/or pay modest/reasonable fees for the use of the space.

Anyone know of anywhere? Anyone got *access* to anywhere that they’d be willing to let us into for a few hours on a Saturday/Sunday in exchange for beers or modest remuneration?

A guide to horses. Very important.

(via Phil)

Would anyone be interested in acquiring a pair of tickets to see Camille O’Sullivan at The Soho Theatre next Tuesday? stu_n has a couple he needs to sell and to my chagrin I don’t have the time next week to go myself, so I said I’d ask around.

In case you’re wavering: she is ace, and you should go.

via mighty_god_king