Beard & Pipe Publishing

Despite being together for decades, they never made a record and the only releases are all bootlegs.  They lived in seclusion.  Their original bass player assisted in the hijacking of Japan airlines flight 351 in 1970. They are literally a cult band.

Ventures - walk don't run

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Patricia Highsmith: one hell of a writer.  

Make beer even in a tiny flat.  DIY beverage ethic.

Interview with the brains behind Mack books.  Interesting.

A great weekly podcast with an eclectic mix of music.  Calypso, obscure covers, hip hop, surf and also a great name and wolf sounds during the show.  What's not to like?

The Semplica Girl Diaries by George Saunders online at the New Yorker.    A great story from a modern master.

A drawing every day by Paul Andrews (Ode to Uke illustrator)

Sad day

Apartamento is an interior magazine with a big difference.  It's not aspirational, it doesn't give you five tips to spruce up your home or ways to upscale some dodgy piece of furniture into an even worse piece.  It is interviews with people about their lives and it happens to have some photos of where they live.  It's a great magazine, beautifully produced and an example of how print can be still relevant.  

Sadly, I don't actually have any concrete ideas yet nor does anyone else I know but oh well.  It's a nice idea in principle.

5.  Flickr

You can read Daniel Clowes' Mr Wonderful on the New York Times funny pages for FREE.

Takuma NAKAHIRA - For a language to come