the less permanent

Hello everyone, today myself and some other great young guys launched a literature/culture magazine called ‘other’.

P.S. yeah, I have graphic design down

There are two things I can say with confidence after looking at these top searches for about a year now.

1. If you are a woman and I have mentioned your name on this blog, the chances are that someone out there is scouring the internet for pictures of you without a top on.

2. Considering some of the shit people search for to end up here, I have a worryingly low bounce-rate.

“the less permanent,  annie clark,  photograph of fucking,  nipples-r-us,  my five bad habits”

If you didn’t play Final Fantasy VII to death in the late nineties then you might not get this. If you did then you and I are kindred spirits and this the greatest collection of songs you will hear all year. I mean, seriously. Fuck yes.

EDIT: So the link stopped working. The bandcamp site for this album is gone.

Team Teamwork’s tumblr offers some explanations. Gutted about the cease and desist on ‘Ante Up’ because that was my favourite.

For those of you who missed it - here is an alternate place to download the album. Do it quick, don’t miss it.

This video got lodged in my brain somewhere. When I sit down to write something or play something or whatever, sometimes I need to get into ‘the right mindset’. So I might watch this a couple of times with some nice music on.

It’s got me looking forward to sitting somewhere quiet near a tree when the leaves come back and also looking forward to watching them fall off again.

One year in 120 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

I went to All Tomorrow’s Parties in Butlins the other week. I didn’t sleep much, apart from during My Bloody Valentine’s set. I saw a band called Lightning Bolt play. At the time I wrote a tweet saying that they sounded ‘like God getting kicked in the cunt!’.  This was hyperbole fueled by alcohol and the ever-pressing desire to say something witty on Twitter and get RT’d and become as famous as Asthon Kutcher.

Look at these carefully arranged objects:

I really like this mug. It belongs to my girlfriend but I want one.

Also, check out my camera. (more…)

You should go an vote up this T-shirt design by Sophie Kern. It’s really good and she can win money for it and then we can buy one. Here’s an interview I did with her and one I just did today with her housemate Bryony on Art and Things.

My write up of Crossing Border festival is up on The Line of Best Fit.

This is the selection of some of the words I arranged in a specific order on the subject:

“Here in the UK, the words and music trick isn’t particularly a new one. People like good books and good albums. Or they are at least prepared to feign an equal interest in 1920’s era blues and Dadaist surrealism for the sake of their own sense of cultural identity, which mindless cynicism aside, still has the pretty pleasing effect of bringing together the two art forms to enjoy a very encouraging and useful mutual appreciation. All Tomorrow’s Parties, Latitude, Green Man, Bestival – there’s probably no need to detail them all, there is no shortage of festivals that are now combining music and literature successfully to introduce another dimension to their own cultural displays. The difference with Crossing Border, however, is that rather than giving the distinct impression of a music festival momentarily tipping it’s hat to the traditions of literature (as most British festivals, for all of their intentions, invariably do) Crossing Border feels like a literature festival with a lucrative sideline in gigs. Yes, in case you’re wondering, this is actually a rather good thing. Behind Crossing Border is the definite thrum of a sincere passion for language and melody and this clearly fuels the diverse and consistent quality that the festival provides in both fields. If it wasn’t squashed hopelessly into two nights, like a symphony into a ringtone it would probably be perfect. But touring schedules are touring schedules at the end of the day, apparently.”

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I should post more writing on here and copy/paste less. I’ll get those shorts done at some point because since I started this novel I haven’t done many at all. (Yeah, I keep changing the theme on my blog and moving this post around because something just doesn’t look right. I think as soon as I nail it, my headache will immediately go away)

This is a doodle I did while watching a really rubbish film called The Transformers (I think) on television one evening. It was full of flashy computer-generated robots. One of them was called Megan Fox.

I’ve recently got back from The Hague where Crossing Border festival was happening. Crossing Border festival is an event with lots of good bands and writers doing readings and performances in some really nice venues in The Hague (and Antwerp this year). I’m writing up the thing for The Line of Best Fit so there’s no need for me to go on about it in too much detail yet. I did see some really good bands and meet some really awesome people (artists, writers, musicians, miscellaneous) while I was there and have a really good time, though. The Hague took us out for meals and tours and things and the festival itself was really good. The welcome pack they left in my hotel room had a kite in it. I’m happy. Extra happy because nobody made me pay for anything (har har har). (more…)

My friends and I have made another zine. It’s the Raw Canvas issue, Raw Canvas are the arts group based at the Tate Modern who invited us to do an event there. If you would like to read this issue of Art and Things please look underneath this paragraph. Thanks.

My artist collective, Diy Womp did an event at the Tate Modern on Halloween night. We did a special issue of the zine and got loads of art and I ran an acoustic stage. It was fun and I’m glad people came.

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Smashing Pumpkins and this 90′s aesthetic were a ‘major formative influence ‘  and continue to influence me. The grainy, hissy VHS this was ripped from only adds to the romance and makes me want to downtune half a step and play guitar for a few hours.

I finally finished tinkering about with diy-womp.com and aatmagazine.co.uk this weekend.

Other bloggers sometimes say nice things about this blog and link to me. I usually respond by simply soaking up the goodwill like some kind of ungrateful, passive sponge with a blog. So here starts a TLP series about blogs out there that deserve a bit of a nod from me, maybe I can be redeemed for how selfish and malevolent I’ve been in the past.

Code For Something

I aspire to be a better blogger. More updates, better content, more commitment. Amber is a real blogger. She’s probably the best blogger from New Zealand (I’m 70% sure she isn’t the only blogger in New Zealand) She carries this netbook around in her handbag and just blogs and blogs. As a direct result her blog, Code For Something is significantly better than this blog.

Amber has bothered to properly design her blog, she’s got a real mind for the details. She even puts these neat little things inbetween paragraphs. It’s full of ideas to steal for this site, which is something I would’ve started doing ages ago if I wasn’t so fucking lazy.

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Can you draw good? Do you like whisky and money? Enter this then, there’s loads of both on offer plus they’re actually threatening to slap the scribblings that fall out of your brain in Time Out magazine which is a magazine that literally loads of people read. Click here, you pencil-weilding booze-hound.

This time it’s post from Korea. And it’s FULL OF TEA. Wonders, joy! Bamboo tea! (?)

My friend teaches in Korea. He’s a writer too. I lived with him. He beat me at Uni but I don’t mind because he’s pretty good at writing. Here’s a story of his.

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My top searches are showing that while an encouraging amount of people are actually out there searching google for my blog, there are still a number of people who are mostly interested in pictures of tits.

To log on to the internet in search of boobs and somehow end up at my blog must be the online equivalent of walking into in an ice-cream parlour and somehow leaving with a bowl of human shit. I’m not sure how these people are even doing it.

“the less permanent,  tlp marketing,  less permanent blog,  thelesspermanent,  nipples photographs, big juicy knockers”

Want one?

Cover by Darren

I’m back on my mission to make ‘viral campaigns’ for things that are worthwhile but not as popular as they should be. This week I thought I’d make up a slogan and campaign poster for being quiet, which is a lost art. Have a look.

Do you often say the wrong thing in social situations? Do you offer your opinion on things that you know nothing about? Do people often seem irritated by your presence? Here’s a simple, effective and trendy idea to help you through!

Be fucking quiet!

Being quiet is a craze soon to sweep the hip urbanite youth population. It makes you look calm and mysterious and often helps you avoid making yourself look like a total dick!

Try being quiet in these ideal situations and watch your social standing sky-rocket:

• In a lecture when people are trying to listen.
• On the tube/bus.
• At a gig when everyone is trying to listen to the performer and not you chatting to your stupid mates.
• In the pub when discussion turns to something that you have no valid opinion on.
• In art galleries.
• In the cinema.
• When your housemates are trying to sleep at 2am.
• When you don’t have anything to say.

Being fucking quiet really is the new way to impress all of your peers. Try it out today!

This weekend I was at the Camden Crawl with Anika.

We saw some bands, some good, some bad. Banjo or Freakout were bloody awesome. We went to the pub with Alessi, The Ark and friends and family on both evenings which was nice, and really helped the weekend along. Alessi’s Ark were fantastic. Above is a picture I took of Alessi onstage with a disposable camera without looking through the viewfinder. Originally it looked bad, but then I ran it through Photoshop to make it look even worse.

Anyway The Horse is an really nice song. Watch the video. (more…)

Today I sat outside and read Arcadia by Jim Crace and looked at the blossom on all of the trees. Blossom is brilliant. I did this quick drawing of some flowers because I was inspired by the spring. I fucked it up a bit but nevermind . Then I went for a run and did some press-ups.

I’ll be twittering for TLOBF (www.thelineofbestfit.com) from the Camden Crawl all day tomorrow and on Saturday. I’ve got a ‘guest pass’ which means I don’t have to queue (which makes me feel special). Because of this I’m going to try to actually go to every venue and have a drink and see a band and make it a proper crawl. I’m a bit worried though because the safety information on the Camden Crawl website says to ‘go with at least one mate’ and not to get too drunk. I’m living dangerously.

I stopped putting those creative shorts up on my blogs for a reason, but I’ve forgotten what that reason was. I might do more and put them up. Or maybe I’ll do a proper short story and get it published and show you all how clever I am by linking to it here.

I’ve also masterminded my next viral campaign and I’ll be drawing up the slogan as soon as I get a minute. This one is sure to become a ‘cult phenomenon’.

I’ll be talking to Camera Obscura on the phone this week too. I like Camera Obscura and I’m looking forward to asking them questions. I’ll be sure to tell you what we talk about.

I’ve booked a ‘solo’ gig for June. I’m going to write some new songs for it. Maybe if I can get a few people together to collaborate the gig might not be so solo, I’m not sure.

This is by far the worst update I’ve ever done.

Hello. I hope you had a nice easter. I thought I’d share my ‘Top Searches’ with you. These are the things that people have put into websites like google in order to end up here.

‘Less Permanent’

‘thelesspermanent’

‘dan brantigan kaki king evi’

‘i think she knows’

‘kaki king sendspace’

‘hard nipples poking through top’

‘poked through’

Looking through these has given me a good idea.

BIG SOAPY TITS, KNOCKERS, NIPPLES R US, WOBBLING MAMMARIES.COM, WANKTASTIC CHEST GLANDS.

Hit spike, here I come.

UPDATE: These have cropped up recently.

thee single spy,  bad habits of facebook,  slogans on books,  marketing and exercise,  shit slogan

and it turns out that most of it’s invisible anyway. I’m now running late. Am annoyed.

Might as well use it as promotion for the new issue of Art and Things. If you want a copy, send me a postal address.

Shiv drew the actual bits, not me.

I’m still not sure about ‘life blogging’, but people seem to be reading it and after a couple of weeks I can save up enough interesting stuff to say so I don’t feel stupid by writing nonsense about what I’ve been eating. I’ve included information on at least one thing I’ve eaten in this post.

The other day I went with friends to see Kaki King at the Jazz Cafe.

She has a new EP floating around called The Mexican Teenagers EP. If you don’t know Kaki King, you really should. I’d stream a song of hers but a) It would take forever b) It would eat up bandwidth c) I’d probably end up getting sued.

It was the best gig of the year so far for me, better than Animal Collective last week. She played with a drummer and Dan Brantigan on EVI. When they played ‘These Are The Armies of the Tyrannized’ I nearly exploded. (more…)

My efforts continue to provide a much needed ‘pr boost’ for things that are good but suffering from an ‘image problem’. My last ‘viral campaign’ has been quite successful, with other people taking up the idea here and here. Hopefully this one will take root with it’s ‘key demographic’ too.

2. Exercise.

A lot of people think is exercise really boring and tiring. This is true. Also, the exercise scene is full of twats. However, carrying around 20 stone of fat until you die of a heart attack at 53 is also not very good. A lot of young fashionable people are terrified of waking up one morning as a fat, dead 53-year-old. These people are the market ‘niche’ demographic.

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A couple of posts back I mentioned that Tess had sent me some post complete with a little project to do. I did it the other morning. It was fun and a great example of why people should sent each other more parcels.

Here are some pictures.

As per Tessa’s guide, I had to make the sea. I filled up the sink with warm water.

Then I put the blue tissue in the water. I thought it was going to make the water blue by bleeding into it, but it actually just dissolved. I got blue all over the place. The sink was now full of this awesome blue slosh, I should’ve filmed the way it washed around, it looked really cool. My sea was complete.

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While we’re on the subject of receiving post – Charlot Webster sent me something a while back. She’s a musician, one of those people that plays everything, sings and writes songs,  the girl everyone wants to be in a band with. Her material is really good, it’s ‘melodic’ and ‘elegant’ and ‘steeped in her fluency in the language of beauty’ she’s like Brighton’s answer to Feist/Cat Power or something. Have a look at her myspace. After the ordeal of uploading that Single Spy track earlier I didn’t bother to ask Charlot for a track, just click the link instead.

Anyway, as you might’ve worked out from that photograph up there, Charlot does a mixtape exchange which is a brilliant idea. I spent a whole evening sitting in my room recording my favorite tracks off of CD onto cassette tape, getting them in the right order. Then I packaged it off and sent it down to Charlot. I got a tape back from her a few days later. It was probably amazing, but a couple of days later my amp broke so I can’t listen to tapes any more (or my records or my laptop on the big speakers). Anyway, never mind. The point is you should look at her and maybe send her a tape. (Charlot, if you’re reading this and you get a load of tapes dumped on you that you didn’t want, sorry.(I’m sure she does want your tapes really))

POINT ABOUT POST NUMBER TWO.

Amber got the spoons I sent her.

I like sending post. It’s good to paint the envelope and put little extras in there too. Post is fun. Incidentally, the word Amber on that jiffy bag was exactly how I pictured it in my head. I fucked up the SPOONS bit though.

Never mind.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say I went to see Animal Collective last night and it turned out to be pretty good. That felt important enough to add.

Tessa is an artist. She lives up in York. She’s got a website called LittleYellowDrum.co.uk. I first met her in a pub in North London when I’d just come off of the alt albion tour and I was buzzing (very ill) from all of the Red Bull I’d been drinking that week and she listened to me talk really fast without telling me that I was a ‘weirdo’. Tessa is tip top.. And now she’s sent me this amazing parcel.

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This week I went to the pub with Anika. She reviews gigs and takes photographs and does comics of her days. She keeps them all in this amazing little book that she draws straight into in pen. This is her blog. She drew the day she met me.

Here is my attempt at something similar, but without pictures because a) It wouldn’t look very good next to Anika’s cute drawings and b) I’m feeling really lazy tonight.

Last night I went to Brainlove‘s room at Koko because Rich Thane from The Line of Best Fit.com was DJing there and he’s my bff. I metLucy Johnston there who is a brilliant photographer. Andy from Fuck Buttons DJ’d too and then we all danced. Rich told Andy that his twitter feed made him feel nervous about meeting him. I hope someone tells me this one day.

We all danced some more. I feel like my dancing was more embarrasing than everyone elses, but truth be told it was all pretty ropey. Then this man started swearing at Rich Thane while he was djing and called me a “fucking idiot”.  Lucy took photos of Napoleon IIIrd while he was playing (really well) who was kind enough to give me a 5am beer when we got back to John Brainlove’s flat because we’d missed the last train.

Rich ate three bagels from a local takeaway and felt sick. Everyone teased the cat, who nearly went mad. My alcohol induced second wind got me home (although my friend Liz nearly died on the bus) and when I got home I stayed up and ate toast and watched The Wire until I fell asleep at about midday.

… Mine isn’t as good because it’s mainly just a whole paragraph of name dropping. Which isn’t cool.

I have to stop high-fiving people. High-fiving can make anyone look like a complete shit head.

Normally a high-five involves you and a friend saying something ‘funny’ or maybe finding that you are both pretending to like/remember the same obscure early 90′s studio sit-com. It’s easy to get carried away in these kinds of situations, but it’s never an excuse for a high-five. This is something I have to learn. I’d advise you to do the same. High-fiving needs to die.

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Welcome to My New Website.  Thanks to Amber from Code For Something for hosting me. Amber is awesome. This site is new, but it’s got my old blog on it too. I wont be blogging in the same way that I did on the cat blog, I don’t think. I’ll probably fuck around with the design for ages too.

I never thought that ‘life blogging’ was a good idea because I’d feel like a twat telling the internet what I had for breakfast and didn’t really expect anyone to give a shit and I didn’t think it was very ‘professional’. Apparently, though,’ life blogging’ is popular with ‘hits’. I don’t know if I care about hits, but then I don’t know what the fuck I’m trying to be ‘professional’ about either.

This morning for breakfast I had mushrooms on toast with a poached egg. I made it myself and cooked the mushrooms in beer and nutmeg. I made two portions, one for me and one for my girlfriend. It was nice. I had it with coffee. I didn’t take any photographs. I’m not a cunt.

Spring is coming. I know this because of four things.

1 . There are daffodils and tree blossoms everywhere.

2 . The weather is nice.

3 . my hayfever is killing me.

4. it’s March.

Spring is my favorite time of year.  It’s nice outside, it’s pretty and after it’s over you get Summer. I went for a walk along the Thames and fed swans today. I didn’t take any photographs of this either, but I think I should do a post with some pretty spring imagery so maybe I’ll take some photographs and try to paint something this week.

Any-way.

I did an interview with Rosie Roberts. People really seem to like Rosie Roberts. I like her too.

I’m touring the UK on alt albion.co.nz

Yeah, I’ve been to Loch Lomond, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester. Back to London tomorrow.

I can’t leave this post alone. I think this video has tapped into a really dark corner of my mind.

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Hi it’s me.

At the moment I am looking at my options for a masters degree. (oh by the way can you please give me six and a half thousand pounds?)

I’m also writing lots (oh yeah I’m doing a novel) and I’ve been playing the guitar (I have a new ebow).

More posts to come

Love

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Oh yeah and thanks for reading and sometimes commenting on my really really stupid blog