Gordon Anderson
@librarygordon
Let's get this partly started. Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan. Hotel Familiar EP: Cardiff. He/him.
Took two photos on the way home last night. Last light over the Wood Street bridge and.... WHAT THE HECK IS EVIL TEDDY DOING??
Enjoyed the launch of The Book of Cardiff last night at Canopi, a new anthology of short stories from Comma Press. Editors Isabella Barber & Martha O'Brien right of shot. Good readings from some of the contributors, with a range of flavours of the city, past and present. Well done to all involved.
My girlfriend, it's fair to say, puts up with a lot. (...and she really is a psychopath in that movie. u stay away from Hanx!!)
Dear @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social Last night I had Leonard Cohen's classic 'Barracuda' in my head, naturally, so sang it and sent an audio file to my exhausted-from-work girlfriend. This was her reply. I also mentioned whose handiwork it was, to which she added "thank them for me!". 😁
Really enjoyed this book by superior music writer Kate Mossman. In the more personal bits, Mossman is, enjoyably, happy to paint herself as quite an odd person, with semi-obsessive tendencies. The lack of surprises (Brian May: nice; Gene Simmons: twat) is offset by the insight, empathy and detail.
Absolutely splendid present from the girlfriend. I'd missed a 2025 reissue of this Françoise Hardy album, which had always been a bit tricky to find. But she'd remembered, and bagged one. Sounds great, with FH stretching out into new areas with guitarist / co-writer / 'directeur artistique' Tuca.
Does this photo I just took pair well with the album Strange Geometry by The Clientele, in all its wistful, long-evening suburban longing? Why, yes. Yes, it does.
Tell me your company is run by men without telling me your company is run by men.
Oh my good lord. A lovely, nicely decorated, slightly beige suburban family home, just with THIS IN IT.
Got to be honest, but I'd never noticed how hot Cesar Azpilicueta clearly is.
Can we at least use this piece to remind the world of this always-relevant point about libraries:
This remains a classy, gorgeous record. Music by Air, lyrics mostly by Neil Hannon and Jarvis Cocker, finished off with Charlotte's breathy vocals. A delight.
Look at this AI crap. From indiepop 'DIY' people. I saw a clearly AI video clip from a band this week as well. Did the Sarah Records guys live through bedsit linocut copydex payphone hell for you to press the magic world-draining button and call it creative work? Stick it up your arse.
A little note to Cardiff people that you can watch films and TV series for free on Kanopy, if you have a library card. And they now have both Bait and Enys Men by Mark Jenkin. Oh and Lukas Moodyson's Lilya 4-Ever, if you wanna be haunted for several years.
The Christopher Wool piece below seems kinda Manics-y, with the stencilling and slightly military feel. Might well have been an inspiration. Reminds me of the band's later album Know Your Enemy from 2001, its cover itself a Neale Howells painting beneath the lettering.
Anyone fancy some tapes? Recently dug through a box and found (note original price stickers!): The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Radiohead - Kid A PJ Harvey - Dry Mansun - Little Kix Audio on the Police album is faded and boomy, others are pretty good. Offers considered. I sure don't need 'em.
Can we have some memes using this picture of Wes Streeting please? He looks like a waxwork dolphin in a man suit.
Just finished this memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur, of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins. More of a cosmic hippie than I'd realised, so may have skimmed some of the more 'universal vibration' bits. School with Rufus Wainwright to smack-addled bandmates, loving Dave Grohl, and NYC in September '01.
Got to see Under Milk Wood at the Sherman in Cardiff today. Bit of a mixed bag - the incorporation of signing within the performance by the actors themselves was interesting, but they also rushed through great lines ("don't spank me please, teacher!") like people with a bus to catch. Slowww down.
Perhaps the greatest customer review of a book I've ever seen. For 'Killer Fiction: Stories that convicted the ex-cop of murder', a compendium of the crazed, depraved ramblings of 1970s femicidal serial killer Gerard Shaefer, supplied from jail prior to his death in 1995. Thank you, MuTiL8R.