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Getting rid of The Past...

As mentioned in a previous blog entry, I used to get the NME every week, along with Melody Maker or Sounds, or any number of other music papers. Now, being someone who keeps hold of things for more than just the week of release, I now have boxes and boxes of old music magazines/papers.

And it's time to get rid of them (I think).

But where? They don't sell on eBay, and there don't seem to be outlets for this kind of stuff as there are for comics (which I also have some piles of).

Bye-bye MySpace

Just a note for anyone wondering where my 'myspace' pages have gone (oooh, I bet there are loads.): Well, I have just cancelled my accounts (namcom and minimism). It's not like I spent any real time on there, and it was just another thing for me to feel guilty about.

There was nothing there couldn't already be found via google/youtube anyway.

What is it with 'Other People'?

Sometimes I wonder what goes on in the heads of people, and wonder whether there should be some credo like Google's "Don't be Evil" for the general public.

Something like "Don't be a C***" would probably do.

Getting serious....?

This photography lark might be getting a bit more serious... I've just joined York Photographic Society, enrolled on an evening class ('The Art of Photography'), and subscribed to Black and White Photography magazine.

Here's looking to better pics!

Music journalism. Or at least a choice of what to read...

For years now (must be at least 10?) I've been a subscriber to The Wire. This follows up a youth of religiously buying the NME, Melody Maker and Sounds (mid '80s to the mid '90s if that kind of thing matters) along with the odd issue of Record Mirror, Jamming, and a whole heap more. During this period first Sounds, and then MM shut up shop, and the NME started to become less relevant, so eventually I became an ex-reader.

Cameras pt.1

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 177X which I was given for a present (Christmas I think) when I was something like 9 years old. This was a fixed-focus camera with 'cloudy' and 'sunny' settings, and using 126 cartridge film. If it was too dark, extra light could be supplied by 'magicubes' - little plastic items containing four flash bulbs. The pictures (when they'd been developed and you'd got them back from Boots) were square which, looking back at them, seems a bit odd.

about

If I was just a musician, this would be called a discography. I'm not, so it isn't. Here's a list of stuff I've done in the past:(not yet complete!)

Vector Lovers in York

July 7th sees the return of Vector Lovers (aka Martin Wheeler) to York for his first gig in his old home town for a long while (details at the freakin' website here).

Photographers to investigate...

A list.
O. Winston Link
Tom Stoddart

... there'll be more as I find 'em

"Film not dead" shock!

A recent press release from Ilford gives film users reassurance in film's future - a renaissance even: THE FUTURE OF FILM (14th May 2007).