May 2012
2 posts
1 tag
SPLINTERS: a new Spotify playlist →
Featuring Kid Cudi, MSTRKRFT, Neon Neon, Grimes, Azealia Banks, The Shins, Futurecop!, Richmond Fontaine and oh god I have fallen into a hipster coma.
January 2012
1 post
1 tag
Orbyn's AWESOME 2012 playlist →
Featuring Childish Gambino, MGMT, Cate le Bon, Metronomy, Althia & Donna, Lady Gaga, Stephen Malkmus and, er, no one actually from 2012. Sorry.
December 2011
7 posts
6 tags
Lush is designed for people who think “She’s a girl, she probably likes washing...
– This week on LUV & HAT:
Secret Santa
Christmas wrapping
And, for posterity, in the last couple of weeks on LUV & HAT:
Festive ice rinks
DVD commentaries
Advent calendars
Hashtags
4 tags
What’s the worst thing about Shipwrecked? Is it that it pollutes the purest,...
– I done wrote about Shipwrecked for Virgin Media.
6 tags
Build a sleazy love fort out of cushions, jump up and down on loads of bananas,...
– I wrote this Virgin Media piece about Channel 5’s Big Brother with that Stuart Heritage off of LUV & HAT.
2 tags
David Attenborough, usually so hushed and respectful, lets his guard drop. “Oh...
– This week on LUV & HAT:
Penguins
Wasps
Hashtags
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
3 posts
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
6 tags
Orbyn's AWESOME early summer 2011 playlist →
Featuring Nicki Minaj, YACHT, Cheeky Cheeky & the Nosebleeds, Trash Fashion, Broken Social Scene, Munk, the 88, er, Janet Jackson, um, Shakira and, er, Jedward.
Look, stop judging me.
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
5 posts
March 2011
13 posts
7 tags
Borough Market isn’t a real market. It’s a bellend magnet. It’s a writhing mass...
– Recently on LUV&HAT:
Snoods
Borough Market
Oreos
Mark Watson
Abroad
February 2011
14 posts
4 tags
If your Nan wees herself you might not admonish her, but you’re not going to...
– This week on LUV&HAT:
Valentine’s Day
Babies
1 tag
Orbyn's upbeat Unvalentine's Day Spotify playlist →
Featuring Art vs Science, Stevie Wonder, Zombie Nation, Yuksek, Micachu and the Shapes, Crookers and ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING TAT.
{Related: Valentine’s Day at LUV&HAT}
5 tags
Someone once told me
LOOKAMEE looking like a normal! Today I am the smiling face of Someone Once Told Me, the project where you’re photographed with something someone once told you (DO YOU SEE HOW IT WORKS?).
When Mario Cacciottolo first asked me to pose for him I went into paroxyms of panic, because
I’m not one for pithy life-affirming adages.
I know a lot of people. They talk a lot. And I barely...
5 tags
When I left the house this morning I was half expecting to skid about on a thin...
– This week on LUV&HAT:
Book clubs
Electric toothbrushes
Foxes
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5 tags
Womens. What do they think? Why do they do? Where do they think, and do? These...
– This week on LUV&HAT:
Loose Women
Oxford Street
Brunch
5 tags
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– This Tumblr is now my main blog at http://orbyn.co.uk. Please update your records if you are so anal as to keep such things.