Blog: the torture garden

A spectacular collection of Radiohead art here - to make your blog look cooler than it actually is. Look at all these music videos!!! Interpol - Evil C'mere Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates Fake Plastic Trees Sigur Ros - Untitled 1 The Strokes - 12.51 Something to make you say; 'Oh, fudge'. This article actually has the greatest understatement of the year: "Klaus Stohr, who coordinates the [...]

1984 links: The Times, 1984 Orwell Today 1984 - download This is one of the greatest books ever written. The Perry Bible Fellowship now has videos!! Listen to this, it's very very funny, the funniest folk music since A Mighty Wind. Flight of the Conchords - here . In Other News: Irish authorities crack down on file sharing. Politics gets funnier [...]

There is a wealth of Smashing Pumpkins gigs and demos here . If I could only find some live Manics shows I'd be happy. Can anybody help? The White Stripes' new album is called Get Behind Me Satan . To be honest, it sounds like a Tenacious D album to me. The Republican Party are, uncharacteristically, over-reacting . And here are some great books & stuff I found online: Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract Nietzsche - Beyond Good [...]

This comes from Adbusters , another website I really admire. It has some great activist ideas, and it's full of information. And obviously, it has some great, eye-catching art. Kerbdog Friday night I went to see a band who've only recently reformed, but they are legends in Irish music, with a cult following that has lasted and grown since the early 90's. I wasn't one of them , but [...]

I've stopped sleeping again. This is the last thing I need. This awful website really isn't helping, it's the most frustrating advice I've ever heard. There's some live Elliot Smith here , pretty good quality, and he's great. Was great. There's a live Interpol concert here , it's damn good stuff, and everybody should have both their albums already. These people are very cool - The Cacaphony Society Like these . [...]

Here is a new joanna newsom song! I got it here . It's on yousendit, so after you download it, if you have the time upload it again, and leave the url in the comments. Joanna Newsom - 'The Fray' And here is her performance of Sprout and the Bean on Jimmy Kemmel. Live gigs, recorded webcasts, & On A Friday stuff can be found here . A lotta live rock (Qotsa, Rage) concerts here . This is scary , but important . [...]

You have been warned. This is from Modern Humorist - and they also have this brilliant mock David Mamet script . It's very funny. Short stories by Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden, here . Here is a Manic Street Preachers site that has very little to do with music but explains every single reference the band made. It's like an encyclopaedia for quotes. I love it. "No more has any estate the breadth of soul that identifies itself, even [...]

Radiohead - Live at Glastonbury, 1997 - a legendary gig, voted best concert ever by Q. Goodnight. "I talk to God but the sky is empty" Sylvia Plath

Terribly hungover today, my throat feels raw and ragged. This is what you get for drinking too much whiskey, and singing The Arcade Fire as loud as possible. I can't speak, so now i'm typing, while the paint is peeling on the walls of my throat. But . . . Tomorrow night I will be at a dj set by both Snow Patrol and Belle & Sebastian in my favourite rock pub. And friday night I will be at a gig by legendary Irish band Kerbdog. And Friday week I will be at the Go! Team! As soon as we [...]

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