I’ve never voluntarily watched a Harry Potter movie but the bairn is watching one and I will say this: the author has a very keen eye for how bullying works, and how people of higher status can upset and abuse their inferiors.

URGENT, please share! Paid Gig. Sound engineers needed to rig/derig a 20kw system on a trailer stage following a last minute cancellation. Help make Trans Pride in Brighton happen - 17th-18th July. Get in touch!

G'night folks youtu.be/xo00uf3NMzA?...

"it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times."

Hang on. Ann Widdecombe lived 10 minutes down the road from Widdecombe?

Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

G'night folks youtu.be/BG-K-1fBFFg?...

186. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (Criterion, 2023 - Ryan Daly+ Will Oldham) This was kinda lovely. Ryan Daly and Bonnie Prince Billy assembled a montage of found footage to act as a visual accompaniment to his 2023 album. 1/2

185. Freshman Year (aka Shithouse) (Mubi, 2020 - Cooper Raiff) A top tier mumblecore movie made by and starring Cooper Raiff, who's engaging and has real chemistry with Dylan Gelula, who has been good in a few things I've seen. It's awkward and low-key and touching.

Despitefully a great first couple of seasons, I abandoned For All Mankind because it was shark-jumping bullshit. Star City, set in the same alternate-history world, but from the Soviet side, is much better (although the last couple of episodes were a bit iffy). 1/2

clearly these soulless ghouls feel they've won the war on trans people so they're moving swiftly on to neurodivergent children

sorting tunes for The Return Of El Boogashake on Sunday. This is a beauty www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFO...

thanks to facebook-averse Joe for recommending this new Akusmi album. Lush african-inflected sorta spiritual jazz with subtle electronics. Or something. I dunno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRzp...

I was brought up to believe you should only speak good of the dead. Ann Widdecombe is dead. Good. (Apologies to Bette Davis)

NOPE 😬

184. Burroughs: The Movie (Criterion, 1983 - Howard Brookner) easily the best Burroughs doc, perhaps mostly because it's the only one he was really involved with. It's funny in places, sometimes sad and even painfully uncomfortable (the scene with his son). 1/2

His claim to be fighting for the people of Clacton would have been somewhat more convincing if he hadn't been forced to go back more than two years before finding a clip of himself there

Think I’d be great at soccer. I regularly go 90 mins without accomplishing one goal

Never saw the real one but went to a Bonnie Tyler drag tribute in my hometown and half way through a jack russell launched and attached itself to the tassles on her jacket. She kept singing

A conversation elsewhere and I'm playing this on repeat again. How many uplifting melodies can one song have? www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61B...

Join Santa Leticia at the Cumberland Arms on Sunday for a sunny afternoon filled with great music on vinyl. Like this youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dear Labour, today you make history by introducing Jim Crow style segregation in the UK at the behest of those who espouse hatred and bigotry. History will remember you for your human rights abuses. You had a choice, you chose to attack the vulnerable. You disgust me. Love A trans woman x

Morning, world youtu.be/Fg32tzKmTv4?...

G'night folks youtu.be/pawMsxhOjIA?...

183. Le Bonheur (Criterion, 1965 - Agnès Varda) I've yet to see an Agnès Varda movie I don't like and this is particularly great. A sundappled idyll is disrupted and things go badly but the film is arguably ambivalent about what happens. And it all looks INCREDIBLE

The Soul of the Soulless City by C. R. W. Nevinson

Fuck. Me.

Hope The Odyssey is a huge success and inspires more big budget adaptations of famous poems. An empty icebox. A fruitless marriage. Jessie Plemons and Kirsten Dunst in This Is Just To Say

It's the first Radie Peat solo release and it's beautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=veav...

I'm bored to the point of anger by this bloody Odyssey movie, and it's not even out yet...

G'night folks youtu.be/c0uqyjGuxyA?...

Clacton By-election

love him or loathe him, there's one thing you absolutely can't deny about Nigel Farage: he's a cunt

Sad Bangers'R'Us youtu.be/TZ7w5lxaKTQ?...

My soul is crushed, my spirit sore; I do not like me any more

I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile

The Waco Brothers were absolutely stunning tonight.

Realised last week my copy of this was unplayable after 38 years, so I blew two whole pounds on a fresh copy

look at these dorks

Not long until The Return of El Boogashake Join @lasantaleticia and me on the Cumberland Arms terrace on July 12 for a few hours of sun-drenched good times youtu.be/ZxMk2YKZc1s?...

G'night folks youtu.be/AVtskhcGOtc?...

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Timothy Carey was in One Eyed Jacks and he's got one of the best faces in film. Especially in Paths of Glory (second photo)

182. One Eyed Jacks (torrent, 1961 - Marlon Brando) Brando's only directing role, and loosely based on the wonderful Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones, this is pretty great and I'm not sure how I never watched It before. 1/2

181. Silver Rockets / Kool Things - 20 Years Of Sonic Youth (YouTube, 2000 - Christoph Dreher) Decent documentary, nothing revelatory but still very enjoyable. Good to see Blixa pop up. Shitty YouTube quality though... youtu.be/GhHPTGXx9Go?...

Woman at the pool is passing out Reflecting Pool Jell-O shots

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

180. Obsession (torrent, 2025 - Curry Barker) The 'YouTuber sensation makes a low budget horror movie' that isn't Backrooms. And isn't anywhere near as good. There's some great ideas, a few good scenes, and the female lead is great. 1/2

Time for some imaginary weekend reading 😃