Found this utterly absorbing: an intense exploration of family relationships and artistic creativity

Taking a moment to marvel at the photography of Harry Gruyaert.

Nice to feel this word today #apricity

“It’s probably nothing important—just a little neighborhood murder, that’s all.” Thelma Ritter, born OTD in 1902

I’ll follow the sun

It’s Thelma’s birthday tomorrow.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe. Georges Simenon, born OTD in 1903

“It’s a young man’s game, underwater welding.” Just started this, and enjoying the deadpan drollery. #SmallProphets

“It’s a stained-glass window without the glass.” Lovely description of one of Andy Goldsworthy’s monumental sculptures in this excellent profile of the artist. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“Night does not show things, it suggests them.”—Brassaï

Good things are happening

Blackfriars.

Jack Lemmon, born OTD in 1925

Belties

Found this a compelling watch: the messy business of life, love and the making of literature brought to the screen with real wit and narrative momentum

“Sleep light on these shores tonight”

New Slow Country mini-album 'Different Beliefs' is out now. The 7 tracks include 3 previously unreleased tunes plus 4 remixes of songs from last September's 'You Still Believe in Me' that went out as bonus EP tracks last summer. Enjoy... thisisslowcountry.bandcamp.com/album/differ...

Late-stage Kapitalism

Al Green covering the Velvets has brightened up my Monday #NowPlaying

was a dream to get to talk to Richard Linklater for @anothermag.com about Nouvelle Vague, Godard being ‘a weirdo’ and his thoughts on AI and cinema www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Portrait of the artist: James Joyce, born OTD in 1882, by Wyndham Lewis. “I found an oddity in patent leather shoes, large powerful spectacles, and a small gingerbread beard.”

“You’d do all that just for a part in a play?” Rewatched this stone-cold classic.

On the beach, Malaga

The remarkable Vivian Maier was born on 1 February 1926.

“I believe I have liberated the novel in many ways, showing how anything whatsoever can be narrated, any experienced set down, including sheer damn cheek.” Muriel Spark, born OTD in 1918

“You are more authentic the more you resemble what you’ve dreamed of being.” Rewatched this beautiful movie.

Corner shop, Malaga

No matter how many times I visit, how many years I lived here in NYC, I find myself pressed up against the window, trying to take pictures that usually look bad. But I like this one.

“Triumph of the Dull”

“There is the ghastly sound of three thousand people applauding as little as possible.”

“When I would write a romantic comedy along the Lubitschian line, if I got stopped in the middle of a scene, I’d think, How would Lubitsch do it?” Billy Wilder on Ernst Lubitsch, born #OTD in 1892

Chekhov on Tolstoy: “I admire him greatly. What I admire the most in him is that he despises us all; all writers.”

Signs of spring quietly doing its thing #spring

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Sad to hear that Nigel Burnham, founder of the magical Band Room on the North York Moors, has died. I’ve seen some wonderful acts here, most recently Nadia Reid and Steve Gunn. Band Room regulars the Handsome Family will play a memorial gig for Nigel in May www.thebandroom.co.uk/gigs/the-han...

Malaga vista

Rainy night in Malaga

Malaga skyline

Home boy

Spanish surrealism with a Lynch/Bacon feel to it

A glimpse

Maybe drink is the answer

Interrupted my holiday to read the news

At the pictures

Where I'm calling from

“Come on. It’ll be just like in the movies. We’ll pretend to be someone else.”

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.” Remembering the maestro, one year after we lost him #DavidLynch

Gateway

New life, where you least expect it #snowdrops

Enjoyed this loose and revisionist Austen adaptation featuring an excellent turn by Harold Pinter as a slave-owning patriarch