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I Love Shit Like This

I’ve been a David Shrigley fan for a while. In fact, I’m drinking coffee out of this as I type. Anyway, a few years ago he embarked on a new project that I found both hilarious and brilliant.

In 2017, a charity bookshop in Swansea, UK made headline news as a result of exhibiting several hundred copies of Dan Brown’s 2003 novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’ in its window with a sign requesting that no more copies of the book be donated as they had more than they could sell.

‘Pulped Fiction’ is a project by visual artist David Shrigley, who has produced a limited run of 1,250 copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ made entirely from the pulped remains of unwanted copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code’.

In 2023, Pulped Fiction was launched at the very charity shop in Swansea that started it all. 250 copies were available to buy at an exclusive price. After selling out within the first hour, and making headline news, the remaining copies are now available to buy.

Throughout the journey David and his studio team were documented by filmmaker Jay Bartlett. Telling the story of how the project came to be and the numerous hurdles faced along the way, the documentary can now be seen online for the first time here.

And if you’re interested in picking up one of the few copies left, it’ll set you back £1095. Cheap!

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Hey Now!

Somehow, I missed this upon release last October, but it’s available to rent on Amazon Prime.

Based on the novel written by Glen Matlock, I WAS A TEENAGE SEX PISTOL follows Glen Matlock’s journey as a founding member of the influential punk band the Sex Pistols. Having co-written ten of twelve songs on their only studio album, NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, Matlock’s contribution was essential to the band’s success. Experience the Pistols’ rise to global infamy with an honest, insightful account of a group of malcontents, determined to change the music business and to attack hypocrisy and stale conventions in society at large.

I know what I’m doing tonight!

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I Said Goddamn

Phenomenal Kinks cover from 15 (!) years ago, bonus points for Andy Stack’s double duty on drums and keys. I think Wye Oak is still around but they haven’t released a studio album since 2018. Anyway, YouTube reminded me I really like this and now I’m telling you bastards. (Yes, I’ve probably posted this before.)

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Labels Down, Frank

From Ars Technica …

The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern at one point.

The promotional robot demo has become a viral sensation among tech enthusiasts, spurring YouTube commenters to name the robots and the company to rapidly roll out related robot merchandise in response. Users on X have described the livestream in glowing terms, such as “the greatest product demo since Steve Jobs’ ‘one more thing.’” But despite such sentiments, it’s worth bearing in mind that even the most impressive robot demos represent narrow windows for understanding real-world robot capabilities.

Truly, we are living in the future. Oh! And don’t forget to pick up some merch!

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No Tape Left Behind

According to Gizmodo …

Aadam Jacobs first took his Dictaphone to a show in May 1984, when he ventured to a venue called the Arts Bar to see British free jazz psychonauts AMM. It was the first of hundreds of shows he’d record over the coming decades, and his extensive library of bootlegs live recordings is now in the process of being digitized and uploaded to The Internet Archive. As of April 2026, there are 2,443 recordings available, with many more to come—as per ABC News, Jacobs’ complete archive contains over 10,000 recordings, which represents a lifetime’s worth of truly heroic gig attendance (and has us worried for the state of his knees).

Even Jacobs’ very earliest recordings are of surprisingly good quality, despite being recorded on what was essentially a Dictaphone. By early 1985, he’d apparently invested in a Sony tape recorder and was also given to using a full-sized tape deck, which he would bring to shows in a backpack on the off chance that the sound guy would let him plug it in.

And here’s a few gems I’ve discovered this afternoon!

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An Artist’s Eye Is Evident

From the CBS Sunday Morning archives, here’s a really cool profile of Edward Gorey, which originally aired on April 20, 1997.

Mr. Gorey has been dead for 25 years!