Rare Beasts
I Am - Channel 4 mini-series. Mostly pretty upsetting, but powerful. Incredible acting
The Million Dollar Duck – a wholesome doc about artists competing for the prize of getting their duck on a stamp
Black Bear – meh?! Liked it but got a bit bored…
Philomena - Judi Dench & Steve Cougan are great together
‘The Pitch’ short by Eno Freedman Brodman – very funny and hits very close to home
Nine Perfect Strangers – why are there only 4 episodes??
When Ruby Wax Met

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I’ve been picking up lots of books by Japanese authors… I picked this up because I liked the cover and he won a Nobel prize. But, I’m half way through and I’m finding it dull… I also have only just discovered that there is a film, and have been recommended that. Maybe I’ll give up and watch instead
Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon
The pop star versus the playlist – A(nother) depressing read on the very tough job of making money from music. I constantly feel overwhelmed at the amount of music (and films, and books etc). I love music – and finding new artists, but there are just SO many. This is why I value the radio so much – and friends that are far more immersed in music than I am (and have the patience to really go for it on the playlist front). I’ve got lots of tracks I love, and know every word to, but I couldn’t tell you who made them. It takes dedication… Which leads me neatly to the next piece of reading from Ana Andjelic about curation:
Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators – ‘Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers’.
The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” From The New Yorker

NESTFLIX – A sort of Wiki, made to look like Netflix, of fictional films and tv shows inside real movies and tv shows. Very meta and fun! A passion project from Lynn Fisher
Flowers for Sick People – this is such a nice idea. Tucker Nichols creates a bunch of flowers every day to imagined recipients; ‘Flowers for anyone that’s thrown their phone into the ocean’ – and you can request a flower painting from him to send to someone who is sick. Waaaa. So nice.
https://suupcover.com/hi – A website with a huge catalogue of album covers, that connects artists/designers with musicians.
Masahisa Fukase’s series on his two cats: Sasuke and Momoe
Illustrator Alex Solis ‘Icons Unmasked’ series is fun.
Various sketchbooks from The Sketchbook Project – This one ‘Winter Journeys’ is nice

Jeff Parker and the New Breed (recent record purchase)
Sam Cooke (and lots of old soul)
Green Tea Peng, Man-Made (bit obsessed)
Fred Again, Actual Life
Love Will Save the Day playlist #141 • 16.07.21 • Putting the soul back into summer
Tyler The Creator, Flower Boy
Fela Kuti
Kanye, Donda. (Disappointed)
SHERELLE’S track IDs - DnB

What should I read next?
It’s Nice That cover Channel 4’s brilliant new Super Humans spot. The film explores the huge sacrifices made by Paralympians along their journey to becoming champions. To be a Paralympian there’s got to be something wrong with you – WHAT A LINE.
Green Vinyl - The Dutch are on a mission to make vinyl more environmentally friendly
I went to see Katherine Ryan’s new show filmed for Amazon – Desiree Birch was brilliant, she goes at lightning speed and has you laughing constantly, and Nick Mohammad (as Mr.Swallow) was also great – his surreal, ‘kids tv’ persona made me laugh without him saying anything. Jimmy Carr was not great – one liners he’s done too many times, and Shaun Walsh was - well he was shit. Like Michael Macintyre but with only the one observation that he plugged for his whole bit.
DJ Biddy (via Matt Muir, Web Curios) – A platform that lets you hire a virtual DJ.