Tres gut second-hand haul…

Woke in the early hours to a R4 adaptation of The Good Soldier in which Dowell seemed to *murder* Leonora. But hopefully it was just a horrible horrible nightmare…

From this Sunday at 7pm onwards I'll be hosting a regular show on @untidyradio.bsky.social. I'll be playing indie pop & adjacent stuff & am, as always, here to help if you have jangly stuff to share. The first show features The Felt Tips, Hazelene, The Lovely Basement, Armstrong, R.M.F.C & others x

So long, then, Guermantes Way and your interminable SALONS…

Not a bad little inscription found inside second-hand copy of Brain Biochemistry by H.S. Bachelard: "LRM 15/12/76 Not a bad little year" bookdedications.co.uk/brain-bioche...

Idea for horror movie trilogy: The Monkey’s Paw - including two prequels detailing the first 6 wishes.

“You should’ve seen the cover they *wanted* to do…”

In addition to Scott Walker’s The Drift turns out my cat is also freaked out by The Shadows’ Man of Mystery… youtu.be/aHjoi_0YhGA

Ooh, another decent Cheever cover that kicks the shit out of the horrible red spined ed.

Ernnui

In addition to Scott Walker’s The Drift turns out my cat is also freaked out by The Shadows’ Man of Mystery… youtu.be/aHjoi_0YhGA

*cov*

*cov*

Proust rarely mentions the age of his characters, so am tres chuffed to be able to add 14 year-old Albertine to The Project/Folly: "Mme Bontemps had been unable to refrain from looking across at her husband, whose comment was: 'Well, well, and she’s only fourteen.'" livesinlit.com/fourteen-yea...

Proust rarely mentions the age of his characters, so am tres chuffed to be able to add 14 year-old Albertine to The Project/Folly: "Mme Bontemps had been unable to refrain from looking across at her husband, whose comment was: 'Well, well, and she’s only fourteen.'" livesinlit.com/fourteen-yea...

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” #Halloween

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” #Halloween

Merry Halloween!

Merry Halloween!

“Whatcha readin for?”

“Whatcha readin for?”

Aw. This time two years ago was in New York, checking into the Travis Bickle Suite…

Aw. This time two years ago was in New York, checking into the Travis Bickle Suite…

12th anniversary of Lou Reed’s death and 1st anniversary of my Strange World of Lou Reed piece for @thequietus.com. (One of these anniversaries is more important than the other.) thequietus.com/interviews/s...

I miss the Safdie brothers.

Not in the *window*, Ernie!

Not in the *window*, Ernie!

Everyone loves Robert Forster’s new guitarist.

Finally a sleeping spot that makes some kind of sense…

Everyone loves Robert Forster’s new guitarist.

*self-indulgent repost*

Am convinced Drive All Night is the Cameron Winter urtext…

Ernnui

Am convinced Drive All Night is the Cameron Winter urtext…

Hurrah.

New addition to The Project: 60 year-old Ben Crader from Saul Bellow's (really quite difficult) More Die of Heartbreak: "... no Romeo and Juliet has ever been written for lovers sixty years old..." livesinlit.com/sixty-years-...

Just noticed HUGE already-killed spider on bedroom floor. Turns out this guy has some practical uses after all…

*Finally!* (paging @rolandbates.bsky.social) milesdavis.lnk.to/TCPN_Live196...

Posing for his author’s profile pic again…

Combination of listening to the new Geese album while reading Steven Hyden’s There Was Nothing You Could Do means I now have this song on repeat. (It’s all about the SHOES, man…) youtu.be/Nv7qiB8Q_cM

Combination of listening to the new Geese album while reading Steven Hyden’s There Was Nothing You Could Do means I now have this song on repeat. (It’s all about the SHOES, man…) youtu.be/Nv7qiB8Q_cM

Tres nice chazza find

Can’t. Stop. Playing. (1/2) youtu.be/y3udPM2ehAo?...

“You should have seen the cover he *wanted* to do. It wasn’t a guitar, believe me…”

“You should have seen the cover he *wanted* to do. It wasn’t a guitar, believe me…”

PSA: GREAT looking US ed of John Cheever’s stories spotted in Oxfam Muswell Hill. A SNIP! at £3!

St BOB delivering a lovely video b’day message to Martin Carthy last night

What book have you bought the most copies of in your life? Pnin. Pnine Pnins. (Pnatch.)

Is exhausting, all this lounging about…

Excitement at seeing copies of Bright Phoebus on the merch stall somewhat tempered at seeing the price of said merch