I'm going to treat myself to an exclusive here - something I don't do very often, but I think it's cool so to hell with it. Last month (and man, that flew past quickly) I got my excellently talented friend Jenny May Finn to shoot some footage from the Great British Tattoo Show. Whatever your opinions on tattooing, the show or anything else for that matter - you can keep them to yourself here. What this is, is a three minute time capsule of a great weekend where a bunch of friends (or at least like-minded people) got together at Alexander Palace in London and had a blast for two whole days. Sometimes, that's reason enough to do anything...

The music is from a now defunct band called Nemonix who I saw in a basement bar in Wrexham once upon a time. I hate a waste of good talent, so have resurrected them temporarily in the name of entertainment. Once the video has been dropped into the iPad version of the mag and released into the wild, I'll take the security off it and if anybody wants to share it after that, knock yourselves out - that will be sometime around the middle of next week.

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Pretty soon, I'll be releasing some pages from the comic book tattoo project - and man, there's some good stuff kicking around. As part of the bigger scheme of things, over the next couple of days, I'm running up an interview with Jason Rockman (Slaves on Dope singer/DJ/pop-culture columnist amongst other stuff) - who in turn is about to enter into a photo-shoot for me in Montreal with Tim Snow. I headed on over to Tim's site to check out his work and found more than a few things to linger over. If you like photography done right and are appreciative of such things, head on over to here where you can surf yourself blind and pay particular attention to the shots of CBGB's and the shot of Rob Zombie in full Rob Zombie mode that, if I was still fifteen, I would surely pay a good £10 for to have that as a giant poster on my wall.

Remember when they use to do those photo-mag things? I forget what they were called now. Pop-Shots? They were magazine size but folded out into an A0 size monster - I know I picked up a couple of Kiss variants around the time of Dynasty and also Creatures of the Night. I don't think I've seen such a thing as a product recently... surely there must be a market for X-Factor spin-offs? Things ain't like they used to be out there.

Anyway, amongst Tim's work was a snap of something that is simply beautiful - I hope he doesn't mind the fact that I took a mini screen grab of it - you can see the whole shot for yourself if you surf through the 'people' portfolio. Here it is:

Holy shit. Look the fuck at that fucking sandwich. I could eat that off the page I'm so damn hungry right now. I plan on getting over to Canada sometime early next year - just to hang out and see what's going on out there really... but I'm going to find out where this very sandwich is constructed and that my friends, is known as "the first port of call". I think this even beats the shit of the previous "best sandwich in the world" that I blogged about a couple of years ago. Sadly, the coffee house that created that one has now shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to the great sandwich making shop in the sky, but I still remember it well:

Bacon and brie on toasted granary bread with pear chutney.

Sounds basic right? I can hear what you're thinking: "Ain't such a big deal." It was a big deal to me. It's not often you'll drive 40 miles out of your way just to get a sandwich.

In this life, all you've got is the little things... in this life, you're on your own.

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And now: back to work...