got told at the house party that I’m being subtweeted

I wrote about my 24 hour Caravaggio bender in Rome for Plaster

I was listening to this earlier and it struck me how much of an influence Brian Wilson’s instrumental compositions must have been on Arthur Russell m.youtube.com/watch?v=lepk...

Why do the titles for this hyper-dramatic Schama TV series look like an early 2000s trance record?

RIP to a real one

We put on a poetry reading and raised £1k for Palestinian solidarity groups

he looks like he's gonna do it again

Is Larry still happy?

Ed Luker on Caspar Heinemann's show at Studio Voltaire, London. A show I really need to see. Caspar was always good & it will be great to see what form the art now takes. I haven't seen any since his degree show and am very curious about this area of material investigation.

wrote about Caspar Heinemann’s ‘Sod All’ at Studio Voltaire for Plinth plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazi...

RIVET presents Poetry Jamboree! Sunday 25th May — with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Rashed Aqrabawi, Rosie Stockton, Robert Kiely, Casper Kelly, Caitlin Hall, and James Goodwin 🌞 🧊 Click the link and buy a ticket 🍉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rivet-pres...

Friend just described this as “lockdown 5 year anniversary weather“ 💀 ☠️ ⚔️ ✋🏻

Issue 2 of new film magazine Monochromator is shaping up to be a sharp one — and there’ll be an essay in there from me. monochromatormagazine.com

I log in to Bluesky like an ageing hustler remembering the good old days. Taking a drag on my cigarette, I reminisce about my 2.5k Twitter followers, the past 10k+ likes, all the ease of days gone, and walk back out the door.

huge “we’re gonna make it” vibes with the London sunshine today after a week of pure grey — people look near delirious

Derek Jarman was writing this in 1989. Swap the clothes shops for American candy stores and Wingstops and how much of this has changed – and that line: “How can you describe what has been lost to those who’ve never known different?”

Massive W for Andrea Long Chu

you also would’ve thought the fascists were losers in 1934 too — the point is a fundamentally cynical and mistrustful culture makes it hard to build solidarity

quite beautiful, in an era where earnestness is hard to do, that lots of the tributes are “David Lynch taught me that it was okay to be weird.”

A.I. could never reproduce the feeling of a David Lynch movie

Something very Lynchian about David Lynch dying from a smoking related illness in the immediate aftermath of wildfires in his Californian landscape. There’s an analogy, smoke / fire, a symbolic shape, but no firm correlation — a kind of poetic thought.

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

went to BFI to see Visconti’s Ludwig and everyone booed the only advert before, shouting “rubbish” at James Cameron talking about the magic of cinema 🤣

"The poet listens intently, tries to bring the future closer while carrying the voices of the lost and martyred with her." loved this by Luke Roberts on the poet Anna Gréki's Algeria, Capital: Algiers in @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

I’ve just realised that Burroughs’s title is intended to also be read NUKED LAUNCH:

the vibes are off in the state of Denmark

I love these first two weeks of the year where everything feels possible before we crash and burn into the habituated shackles of ourselves

Beautiful series of reflections on the past year put together by @edluker.bsky.social. Really enjoying reading these. belowdeck.substack.com/p/clearing-t...

@edluker.bsky.social put together a fascinating group of varied insights from the year past as a way out of individualised blogging -- by Danny Hayward, Daisy Lafarge, James Vincent and others belowdeck.substack.com

Rose Anne Gush and Danny Hayward on the repression of Palestinian solidarity in Austria for Jacobin jacobin.com/2024/12/aust...

The way I thought this was a collection of verse by Larry David

Eros, stupidity, spectacle — it’s a tragi-comic shame that Gary Indiana died just a few weeks before the most high profile American murder case of this decade

Luigi from Fiji looks like if Todd Haynes dreamed up a lone shooter

the Mike Kelley at Tate Modern is so rich, absorbing and hilarious. He was very serious about stupidity, and rightly so.

I’m starting a new political party.

If you haven’t already read it, here’s my essay on the late Gary Indiana, one of the best novelists of the American Empire effects-journal.com/archive/empi...

Spotify Wrapped — the musical equivalent of the police presenting you with a list of what pornography you’ve watched.

On the absurdity of memoir — from Gary Indiana’s introduction to Pierre Guyotat’s Coma

tell me about a brilliant and weird book you read recently. I feel like I want to get into authors I don’t know. something freaky and dark

I can barely bring myself to post here but, hello, that other site is like falling into a nazi aquarium

What if something bad has already happened? 🕳️ For Plinth Magazine, I reviewed the Nicole Eiseman show at Whitechapel Gallery (and still had more to say than I could fit in to the piece). plinth.uk.com/blogs/magazi...