Notes and links from Mon 15 June

Bindweed is a nightmare, but the flowers are really nice… Status: Rest day, but once the usual morning stress-dream trauma passed I was determined not to stay idle so have lightly pottered around the kitchen and garden. No crash after yesterday’s exertions but there’s still time on the old PEM countdown. Reading: Life, Love, Liberty: The spirit of Marjane Satrapi — The comprehensive obituary from The Comics Journal that I’ve been waiting for. Highly recommended reading for all artists. Phil Gyford w/e 2026-06-14 — If I did these things weekly instead of daily they might look a bit like this. The bands who got left behind when punk exploded — Alexis Petridis looks at the NME in the year the Sex Pistols “changed British rock forever” and finds it doesn’t quite match the mythology. Sidebar: I was amused at Petridis' confusion over the term “punk” being used to describe “harmless pop-rock bands” who were nothing like we’d now imagine punk to be. Clearly he doesn’t know the full etymology…