Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.
The notebook changes its cover every month. Each one takes its cues from a different corner of music, paper and internet culture. Explore the collection below.
Haunted Notebook is here through November 1. Coffee Shop Confessional takes over November 2.
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.
Cassette ribbons, red-pen hearts and pink paper. For anyone who ever put too much thought into a mixtape.
Vines wind around the speakers and flowers take over the margins. Spring gets the volume knob.
Pixel ghosts, cherries and electric blue meet the notebook doodles. A little arcade cabinet in the margins.
The pink splashes, coffee ring and black doodles that started it, with the volume turned up. The notebook's home colours.
Peel-and-stick chaos: skulls, butterflies, hearts and neon lightning. Think of the back of your favourite battered laptop.
Torn tickets, halftone fragments and bright scraps. A cover that borrows the rough edges of a wall full of gig flyers.
Black ink, torn paper and acid-yellow sparks. A love letter to photocopied zines and the flyers you kept after the show.
Stars, speakers, tape and every loud colour at once. Back-to-school stationery with absolutely no restraint.
Moths, little ghosts and crimson ink creep through the black flourishes. The notebook has a late-night alter ego.
Coffee rings, headphones and warm paper. A cover for the long walk home and the track you play again when you get there.
Moons, moths and constellations spill across midnight-blue ink. The margins drift into space; the music keeps going.
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Thirty-seven drops this week. House ran the count with eleven, dubstep and drum and bass tied at seven each, and the monthly chart now includes both a budget earbuds review and a tech article about running Bundler as root. I genuinely cannot explain this blog sometimes. The Charts Isam Hadjih feat. Ormella - In My Dreams: five weeks at number one, not budging. Listen → TLM feat. Merely - Summer Jam: locked at two for six straight weeks. Listen → Crashguard - For A Moment: climbed two spots to three, second week on the board. Listen → Cheap Earbuds Review:...
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Federal agents raided a sitting congresswoman’s home before sunrise on October 12th. Twenty-two days before the midterms. The Department of Justice sent Homeland Security Investigations to Ilhan Omar’s D.C. house, seized her phone, and issued a dozen subpoenas to her family members. The stated reason: they want to know if her family lied about her age when she immigrated from Somalia in 1995. She was twelve. A prior inquiry in 2019 found insufficient evidence to pursue the claim. Nothing new surfaced. No charges filed. But three weeks before an election the administration desperately needs to win, federal agents showed up...
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The org chart drawn to scale. Woodcut-style pyramid, three tiers, one truth. At the bottom, dozens of figures with their backs bent, literally holding the whole structure on their shoulders. Middle tier: desks, laptops, whatever fills the middle of a slide deck. At the top, one man in a deckchair, legs crossed, staring at the sky like he earned it. Smokestacks on one side, city skyline on the other, and everyone below knows who carries the weight. He gave up pretending to work three promotions ago. The pyramid has always looked like this. It just never had the decency to...
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