The Barbican's next show Seduced looks interesting - advertised with Jeff Koon 's porn images and strictly for over18s... let's hope its more like their Araki show of a few years back, and not like their not-very-punk Punk show 'Panic Attack': very jumbled, not the best works by artists, only loosely connected with Punk. Had it been done better it might have been the art equivalent of Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again.
I saw a show called Welcome to My World at the Alexandre Pollazzon gallery near Warren Street tube. It featured a drawing by one of my favourite modern painters Charles Avery. It was one of those annoyingly 'curatorial' shows, accompanied by stories and reams of text, far out weighing the visual element of some quite interesting, but otherwise seemingly unconnected works. There was also a free and amusing broadsheet cartoon of the painter Max Beckmann going into a kind of Norse hell.
I went to the Photographer's Gallery a short while ago and see the beautiful works of Keith Arnatt. Originally a conceptualist along with Arts and Language he followed a more private, personal practise since the 1970s. The show had a cross section of the past 30+ years with dog-walking portraits, rubbish photos, animals, notes left by his wife, other ephemera; but strikingly poetic. Also on show there were photos of the journey of a plastic bag by Marysa Dowling, and Chris Coekin 's The Hitcher series - both of interest.
I got my A Place to Bury Strangers CD at the beginning of this month, over from Killer Pimp records in New York. Its very good, a mixture of gothic echoey noise, steely guitars, electronic rhythms; a bit like current American indie rock like Killers and Arcade Fire, but more alternative (if that words means anything nowadays). There were definite hints of 80s music like early New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sisters of Mercy and Echo and the Bunnymen.
Sad to hear of Tony Wilson's sudden passing. However, amused to learn that he was buried in a coffin with the number FAC501.
The Cartoon Museum in London has a show of Heath Robinson's Helpful Solutions cartoons until 7 October. 
Daft Punk's Electroma film has been touring the country, and will be screened at the Electric Proms in London on 24 October. It will be out on DVD 15 October. The film features an alien duo in DP-style helmets arriving on earth and finding themselves alienated (not surprisingly, being aliens). Lots of spacious vistas, big cars and groovy French electro pop.
Speaking of electro, LCD Soundsystem play the Brixton Academy on 23 October.
