Excellent… TBH I cancelled my NS subscription for those reason (oh, and fucking John Gray)
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Excellent… TBH I cancelled my NS subscription for those reason (oh, and fucking John Gray)
Imagine asking if these were the options… 1) a system where everyone has a vote and a say in how government works 2) a dictatorial political system See, it’s easy to frame options in a way that will completely change response - you’re a charlatan or a fuckwit if you pretend otherwise
I dunno… in a movie they’d say exactly that, even if they were digging up some ancient nazi adjacent extraterrestrial artefact.
Fuck no! The Crow and Secret Garden on a Saturday morning. He built a community out of there with readings and courses.
Does that make him a pole?
Packaged noodle culture has all the weird sub-sects of dance, drug and kink culture… enjoy it and do your thing @sturdyalex.bsky.social
I never saw that Head Full of Steam before!
@sturdyalex.bsky.social - this is awkward. As you’re someone with a varied CV that I admire (see just how awkward it is?) would you mind if I picked your brain briefly in DMs?
Love. Still hold a candle for ‘Things that…’ - video has genius, moment of smart pop perfection
Immense
One of those tunes (and acts tbh) that’s soooo underrated cos it was soooo popular
I’m not sure you can fix a camera that’s having an existential crisis
Love this
The Pee Pee Summit
True. That said he looks like the keyboardist of an influential, but little heard, post-punk band who went on to get an Oscar nomination for ‘best sound design in a documentary’.
Can Trumpf?
TBH ‘William Alberque’ sounds like someone you just discovered with an interesting back catalogue of little heard gems.
Blue Rinse Labour
If ever you see the words ‘homeopathic concentrations of knowledge’ attached to my name I apologise in advance for borrowing. Very good!
Rightly so.
And that’s one stream I ain’t fishing in.
Call me a shallow gobshite but as soon as I saw pics for it where the Geordie one was wearing a Japanese fishing hat that I’d had for years I avoided it. I felt violated by the mainstream!
1968 - Powell speech, no ‘Civil War’ Also 1968 - start of The Troubles 3,500 plus dead What’s the acceptable threshold for calamity?
This is very cool
Can’t help wonder whether these are ‘asked’ or ‘sold’ prices
People do not appreciate the struggles of a bear in urban heat
Mod made metal!
Bring it on! My cousin (10 years older than me) was a mechanic for them, and drove a Stratos in endurance races.
‘Don’t throw that pathetically insecure epithet. At me.’
Got to hand it to Walt, he got ‘aura’.
Salah is a great footballer and a good man
Thx… great work
@bsgorrie.bsky.social naturally. Love, peace and solidarity brother x
Far out. I have a longstanding bugbear about the invisibility of the rural working class and, cos it’s my lot, the role of Irish Catholic immigrants in organising them to get gains on things like housing.
For real? I grew up not far away (in a house that musst have been off the same plan) never knew this… but loving Tyrone going for it!
youtu.be/iS2N1mBsEdM
Interesting aesthetic surgery brief… ‘give me something cubist’p
Y’know that thing where there’s a pun in your head that’s so specific to be meaningless to most of the world… but then it sees a chink of light?
I went to Portsmouth Poly, that was years ago
I’m morbidly fascinated by just how disconnected you would have be from the experiences and feelings of actual human beings in order to think that this is a good thing.
Would love to add Brave Star Selvage - bought chinos 10 years ago that I still wear and recently got a 10oz Cone jacket that is perfect. I say that at someone wearing Japanese denim for almost 30 years (wish I still had those cinch back Evisus with simple red embroidered gull pockets!)
As beautiful as Laurence Harvey was I’ve always chuckled at how awkward he looked in denim - might be contextual
I once bunked off a school trip to London so I could go buy The Crackdown from Virgin Records.
Will be listening very soon.
Whenever I put something on by them I end up thinking just how they never sound like a scene or a time. You can do the socio-cultural / post-industrial thing but they always sounded like nothing else.
Literally causing holiday destination dilemma in our house
I want to know that my teenager is nowhere near a shithouse comfort sneaker (tbh no way he would be)… so if this helps I’m all for it.
Your kinks aside, the garden’s a multi-therapy thing. On one hand it makes you realise you can’t control ANYTHING, on the other it makes feel bloody amazing cos you’ve done SOMETHING.
Stop! Too many memories - used to snorkel at a Clovelly!
Aaah, I saw a survey show of hers at ACCA in Melbourne in 2008/9ish and had a moment of rapture. The cumulative effect of the works, almost a thematic network effect, was immense - had a very emotional response and could hardly bear to leave.
Aaah, Coogee… lived on Bondi/Tama for a dozen years but had to settle for a swim in Tooting Bec Lido this morning
Ooooh… and that edition looks amazing
I imagine that it was so diffuse and opaque for a lot of people that it is essentially an act of God, whilst a lot of the others involve some tangible human agency.
I’m hoping that there’s a thought here that a bargaining chip beats a gesture…
Is it that he’s a cunt?
I try to avoid ad hominem… but those crazy fucking eyes!!?
I think the answer is in the first sentence.
More power to you elbow Tom, we have to stand up and say what’s decent & true, otherwise the fuckery becomes normalised.
I don’t know if I could bear it!
Growing up a lot of our neighbours worked in the British Leyland plant at Crowley in Oxford. Maxi seats with some welded legs were the perfect addition to any garden/shed/patio!
Any cuisine that dedicated to the endless deliciousness of the pig is alright by me.
Up for this… hate to admit I thought Pedro Pascal was Green Lantern (weird he’s in both..) and my 13 yr old kid slapped me down. Superman - very very good, reclaiming done of the important stuff. Good guys.
The capacity for shock and empathy feels different.
Adored in our household.
Yeah, yeah, yeah (seriously ‘yeah’).. but isn’t Emily Thornberry’s blazer (and hair combo) amazing???
TV shouting ahoy!
It will always be ’just eaten’ for some people. It will never be ’ready to eat’. Erm...
Lucifer
No more fingers though
These feel emblematic of how the Labour operation is running - on one hand they have the mark of someone who thinks they’re playing 5D chess, on the other it’s glaringly obvious that no-one is going to think ‘this is great’.
And a pub TBF
Like voting - early and often is best
It’s all out there sheeples… Trump, moon landings, auto-asphyxiated Tories - A Clockwork Orange!
Have multiple sensational personal interaction stories about Aussie Masterchef presenters/ judges… every one of them positive!
I’m on the tube on the way home to mine!
Oh that’s fucking cool
Bravo
I thought I couldn’t like Chelsea any less or despise their role in the corruption of football any more. But hey, hands up, I was wrong.
TBF Modern Love is one of my all time faves
The Shepherd’s Bush period produced by Russell Harty?
Sadly it feels like journalism here and there… all puffed up about its status and truth teller self-image but essentially and profoundly deferential. So when it comes to the crunch…
Oh, this
Your pet is dark matter
I am genuinely obsessed by the black one… you sure you didn’t draw this?
Was sports day at school and I only wanted to see The Style Council
For a lazy bastard Johnson wastes a lot of energy writing terrible prose when he could just phone in ‘I’m a thick cunt’ for every column.
Could you stop posting books I’m compelled to buy? How am I going to fit them in? My wife just broke her leg so we had to cancel our holiday - subsequently my three weeks of turbo reading on Andalucian beach plans are buggered.
Looking fresh too Bruce x
Assume City will be playing in Sunday Pub League soon then… no?
Fucken hell… cranes neck out of Streatham window to listen for howls of pain
Just bought audiobook of ‘Get In’ by @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social & @patrickmaguire.bsky.social - got to say I can’t wait for the rest of the series
This is great @iandunt.bsky.social, thank you. It needs saying when so much is fucked and the surrender to cynicism is so seductive.
Lapsed catholic buttons pressed
Kevin’s autobiography winging its way to me!
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Unless you’re Stevie Wonder
Talking Heads are so ‘themselves’ as to. E uncoverable - but I find myself watching this again and again
Interesting use of ‘champion’ there.
Mamdani is basically Brooklyn Nine-Nine in politician form isn't he?
