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PIC: KM 2026 Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy Twiggy vs James Bond MAKE MINE MAG!C! I have a Kickstarter book on Magic coming out! I’ve mentioned couple of projects I completed recently in collaboration with Tom Negovan at Century Guild, purveyors of fine art books from the Symbolist/Decadent era. This is the first of those projects to go public. Tom is a world expert on Symbolist art and one of the smartest people I know.

PIC: KM - 2012 Male Stripper (extended mix) BAKKSEID IS Welcome to Xanaduum’s! If you can’t dance, you can use your fingers, otherwise your imagination! The show’s off to a lively start with Man 2 Man Meets Man Parrish, riding high in the hit parade! The lads are at number one in the charts with their upbeat hi-NRG ode to getting your kit off for money in a grubby transactional world at the uncompromising ass-end of the capitalist fever dream! Enjoy yourselves! Swing those glow sticks! Now...

PIC: KM 2025 Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops (Official Video) I SAY THEY’VE GOT A BLOODY CHEEK What’s it all about, Alfie? Cilla Black’s impassioned existential outburst resonates perhaps more deeply in these times of contention, but who was ‘Alfie’? Where is he now? And what are the chances he’ll ever provide a satisfactory answer to the Scouse songbird’s enquiry?

PIC: Kliff meets Zappa KM - 2026 Apollo 440 - Lost In Space (Theme) (Video) WHY I JUST DON’T BELIEVE PRINCE WILLIAM Have they gone yet?.. Back from some much-needed time off, (I find these weekly bulletins incredibly time-consuming and may stretch it out a bit over summer)! Welcome to your new improved space age utopian joypunk solarcore adventure among the stars! All strapped in?

(Previously in Archive & Analysis: 3 Against Mystery and the Business of the Black Knot, and following their harrowing experience with a sinister Hangman figure while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms, our intrepid teenage ghosthunters are swept up in the onward rush of an uncertain future…) PIC: KM 2026 7. Mikey went back the next day. I sup…

(Previously in Archive & Analysis: 3 Against Mystery and the Business of the Black Knot, our three teenage ghosthunters ventured deep into the so-called ‘Haunted Woods’ on a dose of a hallucinogenic mushrooms. Now, at the dark heart of the Woods, they make an appalling discovery…) PIC: KM 2026 6. First impressions, theories, came hard and fast and random; …

(Previously in Archive & Analysis: 3 Against Mystery and the Business of the Black Knot, our young ghost hunting heroes began to succumb to the overwhelming effects of mushroom ingestion. Now their investigation in the ‘Haunted Woods’ takes a darker, weirder turn…) PIC: KM 2024 5. We trudged, waist deep in bracken while unattended, the bruise on the skin o…

(Previously in Archive & Analysis: 3 Against Mystery and the Business of the Black Knot the 3 Against Mystery, after finding a mysterious film reel in the so-called ‘Haunted Woods’ our heroes resolve to investigate further, little suspecting what awaits them in the forest… (Regularly scheduled Xanaduum will return soon after a brief holiday! Happy Easte…

(Previously in Archive & Analysis: 3 Against Mystery and the Business of the Black Knot the 3 Against Mystery, our narrator discovered a mysterious film reel among her late father’s effects that was connected to traumatic events occurring 40 years previously in the so-called ‘Haunted Woods’… ) PIC: KM 2024 3. I keep all my stuff too. Another trait I’ve p…

PIC: Allan Amato (detail) - 2010 Beat Girl - Main Title (1960) LIVE WILD TEEN MUSIC I write this at the equilux, when light and dark are balanced, with the increase now in light’s favour! Hurrah! This week, I learned I have a new superpower; I can write about peace and love and Magic and the future and be completely ignored by the wider world, or I can drop some piece of trivial snark, dominate the news cycle for days and put Hollywood screenwriting royalty in a position where they feel they...