Bad Grannies

Loads to choose from when browsing the site of Pollak Menace, London based Independiente co-conspirators, but these "Bad Grannies" are a personal favourite. Just the thought of seeing one wandering through town makes us chuckle.

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Vintage Motorcycles

Barnabas, Independiente graphic designer and jazz officianado came across these beautiful things online... even if you don't care about old bikes, they're pretty amazing looking things... Top one being a BMW, still don't have an identification on the burgundy monster...

KLF - For Sale

Something of an oddity this one. Was browsing through eBay and came across a rather knackered looking old Triumph motorbike. Innocently clicking the link, I discovered that it is actually Jimmy Cauty's old bike, 1/2 of mental acid house/stadium house/general madness pioneers, KLF. For more on KLF, read this, it's a potted history of their existence including dropping dead sheep on stages at award shows, burning £1,000,000 of their record deal advance, along with other weirdness...

The description of the bike says it all really:

"Historic motorcycle used by the KLF to go to meetings circa 1987-1991. jimmy cauty purchased this bike in 1976,crashed it 8 times, seized the engine twice, and badly maintained it over 3 decades, has been rotting in his garage for 15 years and is totally unroadworthy." On further inspection, you find this is not the only historical KLF item. Back in the days, KLF were predisposed to building some pretty heavyweight soundsystems, many of them built to military spec, under the name of Advanced Acoustic Armaments (see website). So now, on ebay, for reasons only known to Messrs Drummond and Cauty, you buy one of these soundsystems on ebay here. A bit of UK music history at a knock down price.

Ecseri Art for the blind

A trip to one of the best markets in Budapest can reveal lots of great stuff. It's famous for the antiques, great 60s furniture and other oddities... but nothing can prepare you for when you walk round a corner to be presented with this. An airbrushed picture of various US "celebrities" posing with their appropriate drinks or food. What on earth the artist was thinking I have no idea... Snapped for your amusement...

A word to the wise

Courtesy of tee-totaller and all-round moral beacon, Jeremy at Tezla Shoes, this video highlights only too realistically the dangers dabbling with "da 'erbal"... The voice over is particularly sweet, with it's petrifying tale of how one clean living man threw it all away to stay with the "in"crowd...