Blog: Good Stuff Off The Cuff All The Time

Well hello, over the last month I have cobbled together a little radio show with some of my favourite current songs. There are a few dashes of creative flair but generally it's just me introducing incredible songs no messing. Cop it here. The picture is my trying to claim my own Hova-esk hand sign, a winner I think you'll agree.

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The National Portrait Prize is on at the moment at (you guessed it) The National Portrait Gallery, I found it really inspiring. Above is my favourite, I said as much without knowing it had won first prize, which I concluded made a genius, friends disagreed "isnt it your job to look at photos" well... Central london until 20th Feb Details

Sorry posts have dried up recently, I started a different job and have far less time to imbibe and share cultural snippets. I keep meaning to do a new music round up, hopefully I will get round to it soon, maybe a radioshow or a spotify albums thing. In the mean time I'd listen to Sufjan's new Ep and Lp if i were you, you can get them really easily for $5 and $8 here which is nothing considering the quality of the work. It's still all going off on my [...]

'Lovely' doesn't even get close.

These colour pictures of pre revolution/pre world war 1 Russia are unbelievable, go to The Big Picture to see all 36 pictures a lot bigger. They are actually making my heart race, well could be this brew, but something is putting me on edge.

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Lovely interview and stuff with Marling on america's answer to the BBC or whatever here

This made me laugh blumming loads.

Here is a guide to my twitter world partly to help beginners get envolved partly for fun. Sorry it's not very interactive or tidy News/Politics @r4today best news prog ever, also see @evanHD my favourite presenter and good tweeter [...]

Here is a really nice radio session The National have done for Minnesota Public Radio, nice interview, stripped down versions of High Violet songs and a new song.

So The Arcade Fire are back. I think the new album is great, a proper album that can be invested in during these times of change. The other week they streamed a gig online, you can watch most of it on their youtube channel in hi def (I have relatively modern computer now so I can take advantage of such things for the first time in the history of Tom) I'd draw particular attention to Win's introduction to Power Out , gotta love that shit. The youtube channel is full on sponsorship which is surprising for Arcade [...]

Well this looks good. It's hard not to be a tiny bit in love with James Franco. Esquire have been all over his business this month, below is the first part of 5 parts of an interview he did with his brother, also an actor. The rest and some other Franco stuff is here .

Inspiring short film.

The brilliant sketch show Cowards is currently being repeated on BBC so is on IPlayer . The first 3 episodes are on youtube as well. It couldn't be further up my street. Tim Key is in it with 3 other brilliant people I can't be bothered to type out.

Two amazing videos via beautiful decay