Oh My Clumsy Heart

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2012-02-11T21:22:00.000Z

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

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2012-02-10T20:05:00.000Z

"Peace is in my heart: I know it is."

▲▲▲ While You Were Gone

2012-02-09T21:05:00.000Z

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2012-02-05T19:36:00.000Z

Website and shop update.

▲▲▲ The First Fall Of Snow

2012-02-04T19:32:00.000Z

▲▲▲ Raven Skull

2012-01-23T00:10:00.000Z

You can buy this.

▲▲▲ I don't trust society to protect us

2012-01-22T15:43:00.000Z

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2012-01-17T21:52:00.001Z

▲▲▲ two thousand and twelve

2012-01-13T00:13:00.002Z

res·o·lu·tion a formal expression of opinion or intention made

#justsayin

2012-01-12T00:08:00.000Z

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2012-01-01T15:33:00.000Z

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2011-12-27T23:37:00.000Z

Not all strange things are bad.

▲▲▲ Black Hare of Inlé

2011-12-26T19:37:00.000Z

▲▲▲ Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T00:13:00.000Z

I hope you all had a most wonderful Christmas.

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2011-12-04T23:47:00.000Z

He bought me Argyll and it is beautiful.

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2011-12-03T23:55:00.002Z

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.” ― Truman Capote

2011-11-23T22:37:00.000Z

The Film List: Week Forty Four

2011-11-20T21:33:00.000Z

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2011-11-15T19:23:00.000Z

“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books... reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

2011-11-08T21:17:00.000Z

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2011-11-07T21:14:00.001Z

Bear Brooch

The Film List: Week Forty Three

2011-11-06T21:28:00.001Z

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2011-11-05T23:01:00.000Z

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2011-11-04T19:31:00.000Z

The Book List: October

2011-11-01T20:54:00.003Z

The Film List: Week Forty Two

2011-10-30T21:25:00.000Z

The Year of Hiberation - Youth Lagoon

2011-10-28T20:18:00.000+01:00

The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe

2011-10-26T20:38:00.000+01:00

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ― The Raven

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2011-10-25T19:19:00.000+01:00

You are all strangers to me.

Zine Showcase #25

2011-10-24T00:51:00.001+01:00

Philip Dearest
and friends

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Wash Your Hands & Repeat :: $10 + shipping

A zine about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, severe anxiety and the resulting rituals sufferers endure. The all-too-common written accounts of psychological disorders is something I find difficult to relate to; each of this zine's 70 illustrated pages reveal the personal side to OCDs and anxiety related issues, creating an incredibly insightful and graphic account of the intensity of such disorders. Honest, dangerous and lionhearted.

Catillest
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A is for Afterlife :: £5 + shipping

Limited edition of 10 copies, all numbered and signed by Catillest. A is for Afterlife features 16 pages of drawings, photos, stories and comics dealing with the macabre.

Matt Carman & Kseniya Yarosh
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I Love Bad Movies #3 :: $5 + shipping

A collaborative zine featuring the work of twenty five artists and writers; 50 pages of written content including 22 short essays running with a "visions of the future" theme. Reviewing post-apocalyptic, futuristic films - think: Barbarella, eXistenZ, The Net - films that are so bad they are good. I Love Bad Movies is one of the few zines I consistently purchase every issue; immaculate design, excellent writing and awesome good-bad films to add to the film list.

The Film List: Week Forty One

2011-10-23T12:20:00.002+01:00

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2011-10-23T12:06:00.001+01:00

Raven Brooch

The Film List: Week Forty

2011-10-16T13:51:00.000+01:00

Zine Showcase #24

2011-10-10T23:10:00.000+01:00

Jason Niebauer
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Ghost Town :: $2.50 + shipping

Ghost Town is a half-page format zine, saddle stitched and limited to only 75 copies collecting black and white photographs taken walking through a ghost town. Desolately serene and beautifully shot.

Julia Matheson
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How's It Cookin', Good Lookin' :: $4 + shipping

"You must be Windows 95 because you've got me so unstable."

Hilariously funny and curiously cute nothing beats a good pick-up line. Julia Matheson couples cutesy drawings with adorable pick-up lines and a few "Yo Mamma" jokes for good measure.

Nick Francis Potter
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Paper Noise Vol 2 :: $4 + shipping

A collection of fictional content, poetry and heavily stylised illustration.

The Film List: Week Thirty Eight & Thirty Nine

2011-10-09T23:13:00.000+01:00

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2011-10-07T20:41:00.000+01:00

I've been baking bread again.

▲▲▲ Saying Goodbye to the Summer

2011-10-06T20:07:00.001+01:00

Monday afternoon

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2011-10-05T21:03:00.000+01:00

My new friend
Pocket Cat

Zine Showcase #23

2011-10-03T23:31:00.000+01:00

Neil Dee

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Necronomicon #2 :: £1 + shipping

Necronomicon is a Yorkshire, UK based horror fanzine, a sincere love letter to the horror genre in love most of all with the films that have been forgotten about. Published every-so-monthly these black and white photocopied A5 zines are intensely nostalgic with a heavy dose of dark humour.

Weng Pixin
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All You've Got To Do Is..

Weng Pixin created this zine for a Pikaland project and I received it direct from them as part of a zine selection so issues are scarce. Weng uses cartoons and zines to talk about intensely painful or emotional subjects.

Elizabeth Maycox

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Hard On Love :: £4.50 + shipping

"Remember. Even if nobody ever cares for you, you can always still care about somebody."

An A5, signed and numbered, machine stitched, 36 page zine; Hard On Love is the final send-up of the now defunct Love Comes in Spurts journal. Limited to strictly twenty copies; Hard On Love contains 39 breathtakingly poignant articles on love, lust, heartache and heartbreak. Everything from the sketched cover illustration of Lester Young to the intense writing right down to the library book feel of the paper this zine is nothing but beautiful.

The Book List: September

2011-09-30T22:15:00.000+01:00

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2011-09-27T23:00:00.000+01:00

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2011-09-26T20:10:00.002+01:00

Feather brooch

The Film List: Week Thirty Seven

2011-09-25T23:34:00.000+01:00

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges

2011-09-25T17:43:00.000+01:00

Zine Showcase #22

2011-09-20T07:39:00.000+01:00

Liam

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Lost Boy #3 // £2.50 + shipping

60 pages of music, film and popular culture - a heavy mix gig reviews, interviews and illustrations. Lost Boy #3 arrived unexpected (thank you Liam!) and very much welcomed; if you haven't purchased the previous two issues I think you should, especially now they are on sale. I'm rather tempted by the Bukowski bag..

Erin Potter
Paper Noise Zines

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Queens :: $4.00 + shipping

Erin Potter has compiled a encyclopaedic zine of queens, visualised through portrait sketches and quotations.

Michelle Alba, Chris Dunsmore, Ryan Hall, Adelyn Hall, Cassie Kemp,
Nick Francis Potter and Samuel Cheney
Paper Noise Zines

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Vol 6: The Destroyer

A wonderfully crafted collaborative zine. Vol 6: The Destroyer is a quarter-sized zine incorporating fictional work with poetry and rather lovely illustrations.

The Film List: Week Thirty Six

2011-09-18T11:29:00.000+01:00

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury

2011-09-16T19:14:00.001+01:00

My current obsession with Scrabble is #Jacksfault

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. — Charles Bukowski

2011-09-12T00:07:00.000+01:00

The Film List: Week Thirty Five

2011-09-11T19:52:00.000+01:00

Merimaailma, Helsinki

2011-09-06T19:44:00.000+01:00

Piranhas and crabs and seahorses, oh my!

Thrifted: Hideously Cute

2011-09-03T22:23:00.002+01:00

I spied this little guy in a local charity shop. For 50p I could hardly refuse.
I can't decide though, hideous or cute?

And all the books you've read have been read by other people — Stephen Chbosky

2011-09-01T19:46:00.003+01:00

The Book List: August

2011-08-31T21:04:00.000+01:00

The Film List: Week Thirty Three

2011-08-28T23:36:00.000+01:00

Figs

2011-08-21T18:15:00.000+01:00

Straight from the garden.

Without literature, life is hell — Charles Bukowski

2011-08-19T22:45:00.002+01:00

Cave ab homine unius libri

2011-08-16T00:07:00.000+01:00

All the books I currently own.

Zine Showcase #21

2011-08-15T20:52:00.000+01:00

Jessee John
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Chalk Thoughts :: $5 + shipping

This handmade, 20 page colour photographic zine has encouraged me to get back into zine making. The style of Chalk Thoughts is inspiring; from the rough edges (machine-sewn binding) to the mixed-media photography to the (overly emotional) quotes and half filled pages - everything pulls together and looks outstandingly supreme.

Kaori Mitsushima
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Cats I Know :: $5 + shipping

Cats, cats, cats! 44 black and white cat illustrations pulled from the blog of Kaori Mitsushima. Cats - what more could you possibly want?

Philip Dearest
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Off My Meds :: $6 + shipping

Philip Dearest stopped taking his medication and this is the "vulgar, weird and wonderful" result. Off My Meds includes 37 illustrations with a cover design by Karl Kwasny. Thankfully Philip sent me several zines (and one of the best cover letters I have ever received) because I cannot get enough of his alarmingly frantic, absolutely brilliant illustration work. The perverse meets sexual deviancy meets internal angst, producing the most sordid (and wickedly delightful) zine. Buy it!

The Film List: Week Thirty One

2011-08-14T22:27:00.000+01:00

MEOW IS THE TIME

2011-08-10T12:19:00.000+01:00

right now

The world was hers for the reading. — Betty Smith

2011-08-09T00:07:00.000+01:00

Zine Showcase #20

2011-08-08T19:39:00.001+01:00

Collemoki
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Marsupials :: £2.00 + shipping

Collemoki were kind enough to send me two copies of there Marsupials zine - a digital printed colour version (shown above) and the (just as lovely) black and white edition. A5 in size with 16 pages with illustrations of marsupials ("an animal who has a pocket on its berry"). Fantastically charismatic and a little peculiar - wonderful stuff.

Harley Pageot
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Yard Sale #10 :: $2.00 + shipping

Yard Sale #10 deals with music; discussing the love of CDs, school bands and record labels. 52 pages of black and white (mainly typed) content.

scarface133
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My Cat :: $1.50 + shipping
How To Collect Air Mail Labels :: $1.50 + shipping

Two short-and-sweet 8 page mini-zines; My Cat is a hand drawn illustration zine with rhymes about.. cats! How To Collect Air Mail Labels deals with mail label collecting and comes with a free assortment of mail labels.

Go Tell Fire to the Mountain - Wu Lyf

2011-08-08T01:34:00.002+01:00

Specifically: Cave Song, Spitting Blood, We Bros and Dirt

The Film List: Week Thirty

2011-08-07T20:00:00.001+01:00

Beauty Isn't Everything

2011-08-06T18:55:00.000+01:00

These banana and coffee muffins may not win any prizes in a beauty pageant they still taste pretty good.

The Finnish Museum of Natural History

2011-08-03T00:07:00.000+01:00

Taxidermy fascinates me.

The Finnish Museum of Natural History

2011-08-02T00:43:00.001+01:00

The exhibitions here made my heart skip a beat.

Zine Showcase #19

2011-08-01T21:20:00.000+01:00

Jason Niebauer
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Lost in the Jungle // $4.00 + shipping

Jason Niebauer's work is big, bright, bold and deliciously playful; Lost in the Jungle is a 20 page black and white illustration/photography zine printed in a limited run of 50 copies. Not only is the cover colour-way fantastic (teal and yellow; such a perfect combination!), the paper-cut cover gives this zine a little something extra. I highly recommend purchasing one of Jason Niebauer's zines.

Pa! pA!
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Wait for the Summer #1 // £2 + shipping

Wait for the Summer features an international festival guide for the summer months; filled with fantastic collages, illustrations, photography and a free DVD. Whilst not a festival-goer myself the illustration work alone is enough for me to get enthusiastic about this zine - just check out that front cover artwork.

Hannah Sheehan
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Undestructable #1 // $2 + shipping

Made as part of the 24 Hour Zine Thing, Undestructable crams a whole heap of cut-and-paste content into this quarter-sized zine. Catharsis and creativity meets to form articles on (seemingly random) subjects like rubber cement art, pregnancy rants, ditching technology and gender synaesthesia (to name a few). For a zine made in 24 hours, Undestructable lacks nothing.. and my copy came with a free friendship bracelet!

The Book List: July

2011-07-31T21:34:00.001+01:00

I have completed this year's reading challenge with six months to spare!

National Museum of Finland

2011-07-30T11:53:00.002+01:00

The National Museum of Finland has the most wonderful collections of coins, medals, silverware and weaponry. One particular exhibition fascinated me; Faithful Friends - exhibiting dogs and horses of Swedish royalty.

Helsinki In Bloom

2011-07-27T19:48:00.002+01:00

The Film List: Week Twenty Eight

2011-07-24T20:41:00.000+01:00

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C. S. Lewis

2011-07-23T18:35:00.001+01:00

Hemuli Talon, Muumimaailma, Turku

2011-07-22T19:52:00.003+01:00

"Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine." — Tove Jansson

I should think, if I were to live amongst The Moomins, I would very much like to live with the Hemulens. Not only do they have such wonderful interests (butterflies, plants, stamps and book collecting!) their homes are so delightfully quaint.

Muumiperheen Sinisen Talon, Muumimaailma, Turku

2011-07-21T00:07:00.003+01:00

"I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness" — Tove Jansson

Books, top hats, unmade beds, flower arrangements, bunting, nautical themes, pots of jam and hanging lanterns - all things you'd expect from a Moomin family (and an aversion to dusting, so it would seem!)

Muumimaailma, Turku

2011-07-20T20:36:00.002+01:00

A two hour train journey followed by two bus rides brought me from Helsinki to the wonderful world of The Moomins in Turku. If I had been aware of the glorious Turku castle I most certainly would have paid a visit. Ah well, perhaps next time.

Helsinki, Finland

2011-07-19T00:43:00.000+01:00

Late nights, early mornings, wide streets, colourful buildings, bear park, ferry rides, tram lines, jazz clubs and a lot of bicycles.

Helsinki, Finland

2011-07-18T19:02:00.000+01:00

At Linnanmaki you can ride the Panoraama for free and see the city from afar.

Room With A View, Helsinki

2011-07-18T12:23:00.000+01:00

Hotelli Helka, Helsinki, Finland

2011-07-18T00:43:00.001+01:00

I would recommend staying here.

Departures

2011-07-17T05:23:00.002+01:00

Goodbye London

2011-07-17T00:05:00.001+01:00

Näkemiin

2011-07-11T00:07:00.004+01:00

Goodbye! So long! I am flying out to Helsinki for the week!

The Film List: Week Twenty Six

2011-07-10T22:15:00.004+01:00

You've Got To Toughen Up

2011-07-10T18:37:00.000+01:00

Tracks

2011-07-10T12:21:00.001+01:00

Summer Vacation

2011-07-09T00:07:00.000+01:00

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

2011-07-07T20:09:00.003+01:00

Specifically: Perth, Minnesota WI, and Holocene

You can learn a lot of things from the flowers...

2011-07-07T00:07:00.000+01:00

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011-07-06T14:40:00.001+01:00

You should read this book. Just don't come crying to me when your heart is broken (and you feel better than you've ever felt in your entire life).

No Ball Games

2011-07-06T00:05:00.002+01:00

Rocks

2011-07-05T14:30:00.001+01:00

Stop Beating Yourself Up

2011-07-05T09:21:00.000+01:00

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience — Mark Twain

2011-07-04T18:11:00.001+01:00

The Film List: Week Twenty Five

2011-07-03T21:20:00.002+01:00

Threads (1984)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Ghost World (2001)
Fish Tank (2009)

The Book List: June

2011-06-30T09:00:00.003+01:00

Antique Monogram Necklaces

2011-06-28T19:48:00.004+01:00

Monogram necklaces available at the shop. There are three different fonts to chose from: one, two, three.

Zine Showcase #18

2011-06-27T21:22:00.002+01:00

Family Style
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Elf World #1 // $6.00 + shipping

A collaborative zine heavily inspired by the fantasy genre including a liberal mix of short stories and mini-epics. The Elf World series has been lovingly created with great attention to detail; the hand-printed letterpress covers with French flaps are utterly divine and the illustration work inside is supreme.

François Vigneault
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Bird Brain #4 // $3 + shipping

François Vigneault was inspired to create this zine by a series of field trips in the Spring to Winter of 2010. Combining personal sketches (and a beautiful watercolour study) with observations from bird encounters, this 16 page black and white zine with Gocco printed cover makes a lovely edition to the collection.

Christopher Fischer & Kenneth Adkins
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Mountain Man Meat // $5 + shipping

The website describes this zine as "collected artwork and thought/collage from mysterious collective." Nightmarish perversions illustrated and demonstrated through collage, blended with scrawling written words that make little sense aside from being peculiarly obscure. Mountain Man Meat is filthy disgusting, scruffy and nonconforming - perfect.

The Film List: Week Twenty Four

2011-06-26T22:03:00.001+01:00

The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Cat People (1942)
Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Burst Apart - The Antlers

2011-06-24T18:49:00.005+01:00

Specifically: I Don't Want Love, No Widows, and Putting The Dog To Sleep