Happy Halloween everyone! Stay scared!   (and don't forget, you can find (almost) every single one of my horror/cult/Eurotrash themed mixes here . Perfect for your spooky get together!)  

"I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before."   Happy birthday to THE greatest book ever written....BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S   And for your listening pleasure, here's Truman himself reading an extract. Enjoy.  

    Absolutely fucking gutted here today, was waiting for Amelia to finish college and found out via X that Dave Ball had died at the tragically young age of 66, so I spent a fair bit of the afternoon sitting on the steps of GoMA listening to Soft Cell on my headphones whilst trying to process the news. And yes, I'll admit there were tears.  You see, as folk who know me (and who've read this blog) will attest, Soft Cell are my favourite band - and Marc Almond is my hero. But that's for another day. I've already posted about the importance of Marc and Dave way back in 2022 but wanted not just to repost it but add a little more Dave to the mix. A kinda text remix if you will. I hope he'd approve.    Being the awkward Autistic artsy teen constantly picked on in school, obsessed with horror films, sci-fi and Warhol, Marc and Dave were a lifeline and Soft Cell's dark electropop perfectly encapsulated everything I felt...and everything that terrified me too.... T...

  The person who gave me the big push to start drawing seriously again (then years later slagged me off for listening to him when drunk!), the guy who gave my wife and I our 'comic bonding' experience and the co-creator of the character our wee boy-child is named after.   Remembering Steve Dillon on The Anniversary of his death.     

Well had a few weeks of fun things here - to be fair it's been half term so no 6 AM starts and plenty of time to spend doing cool stuff with the kids - so it'll be no surprise that we're now in the back to reality zone, fighting against the clock to update our motorbility claim as for some obscure reason they'd changed my name on the claim so we couldn't log in(!), first day back at college for the girls has been blighted by late buses, changed routes and breakdowns meaning a 2 hr turnaround has taken 3 (yep, Rho is currently stranded in town) and Cass has (finally) figured out the locks on the living room door which means 4 hours of sleep and being rudely awakened by him bombing around the house with all the lights on and everyone's (charging) phones and laptops switched on and used for nefarious (Wayback Machine and CBeebies) based shenanigans.  Oh and the fact that he's not slept either means double Autistic over-tired mentalism is running the house this ...

As ever, just in time for Halloween....(almost) every single horror/cult/Eurotrash themed mix from the infamous Man With No Suitcase pre-club I used to run in 'sunny' Glasgow...and more.   Just the right thing to get your party going with a bang. Probably.