Alexia Golez

Pass this most days on the Ranelagh Triangle..

Another batch of Interesting tickets on sale tomorrow night!

Charles with another brilliant review. This time, Volver!

Damien wrote an excellent post on finding the beat. That creative beat.

Twitter for Busy People.

Debunking social media myths.

Unfocused groups.

Liking the latest Pretty Much Amazing ‘cast!

Blonde Redhead ‘Heroine’ [just music]

J Dilla ‘Nothing Like This’

As a nation, we’re terrible hung up on sticking to interior conventions. What used to be magnolia is now a uniformed feature wall.

As a teen, I stuck those terribly greenie,  luminous stars on the ceiling of my room. And at night, they’d shine. An inside-outside galaxy. The posters changed on my walls, but my stars still twinkled.

In the months coming up to exams, I’d draft massive posters and hang them all over my room. I’d pace and learn or simply sit still to gather my thoughts and drink them in. Always surrounded by posters. Surrounded by things that measured progress, taught me something new or told me where I came from.

In some ways, sticking to clean lines of conventional interior design robs us of marking life events. Makes it impossible to really live in rooms.

This month’s Creative Review has a piece on how modern composers are adopting colour and graphics in unconventional notation, with the roots of the article from The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. The book charts the how classical music changed in the Twentieth Century moving from Viennese waltz twirlings to the Cage’s idiom that anything is music if you listen hard enough.

For as much as the unconventional notation tells the composer, conductor and musicians what to do and when, it’s also a tangible impression of where the creativity came from. How it was hewn out of the mind and onto white paper.

I used to paint quite a bit. The strange thing about painting I found was the remembrance of moments every time I came back to them. I’d remember the amazing strong cup of tea I’d made on that flower petal. Or perhaps, the tune and radio station I listened to on the sketch layout of that guitar.

How do you measure the space you live in? Are you teaching yourself new ways to measure and share outside Cookie Cutters?

In prep for tonight’s final episode of Questions and Answers, Suzy is looking your favourite Q&A moment.

Patrick publishes a handy script for screen capturing, uploading to a server and urling.[updated]

Via Metafilter. Proof of the Free Will Theorem.

Support group for carrot munchers. Soyfuckers anonymous.

NPR giving a first listen to Bjork’s Voltaic.

Wrangler’s advert -  ‘We Are Animals’.

Blur ‘Tender’ at Glastonbury last night. So tingly, it’s given me tongles. Skip ahead to 5:39 and listen to the crowd singing it back. Possibly the only band I’d like to see at Oxegen just for those 10 minutes.

This morning, I’m stretching to

• Peaches ‘Mommy Complex’
• Friendly Fires ‘Strobe’
• Explosions in the Sky ‘Your Hand in Mine’

Youtubilicious.

God bless you, BBC.

Update: this video was removed and the others have embedding disabled. Click here to go to Youtube and see Neil’s performance.

Update 2: Oh dear. Youtube is killing all the Neil videos. Apologies folks.