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I was thinking about posting my first-ever single-artist mixtape today, since I’ve pretty much done nothing but listen to PJ Harvey this past week. But then I just read that The Long Blondes have broken up!
Worst of all the breakup is medical-related; songwriter/guitarist Dorian Cox had a stroke a couple of months ago and I guess can’t move certain parts of his body now.
The news came right as the group put out “Singles,” a collection of their early stuff, including Autonomy Boy, the early song that this blog (and my internet persona) are named after.
Here’s some highlights from their short career, which will probably make you weep or dance, or probably both, for the next thirty-five minutes:
A Knife For The Girls (demo)
Polly
Last Night on Northgate Street
Darts
Platitudes
Peterborough
Once and Never Again (single version)
All Bar One Girls
Separated By Motorways (Sexamatronic Mix)
Five Ways To End It
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I just stumbled across the Facebook profile for the Museum of Sex. I’ve still never been inside the museum, even though I say I’m going to every time I’m in New York.
I was quite taken with this (uncredited) photo on their page. Mostly for the cat pillow.
Speaking of New York, how distraught am I that the Art Book Fair is this weekend and I’m completely out of money? Some really cool publishers are going to be there. Specifically, really cool dirty gay publishers. But alas, I have literally about three dollars to my name*, and they’re mainly in pennies and nickels. It means I’m also going to miss the chance to see the Banksy pet store thing, too. Damn it.
(*Or less, if you add up all the utilities/dental bills/parking tickets/student loans I owe. But I think it’s better not to think that way.)
