Today’s office.

Thrilled to be appearing with The Delavey at this night in Stoke Newington’s fashionable Stoke Newington, supporting the fab Parenthesis Dot Dot Dot. Friday 30 Jan, doors 19.00. Tickets? Here! wegottickets.com/event/686706/

The past tense of AI, it turns out, is I Ate.

New today on the site! @carriecourogen.bsky.social on Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, and the enduring power of A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Where do we stand on people who keep their hat on in the cinema, by the way? I don’t mean how do we feel, I mean where do we stand?

Sitting waiting for this (masterpiece) to start, with this tote bag by my feet, because really I am beyond help.

Was reminded last night of the second MGMT LP, Congratulations, so I’m playing that again. Back me up here - wasn’t the received wisdom at the time that it was a disappointing, patchy follow-up, and not, in fact, completely brilliant? Wiki is skewing more positive, but sure I remember differently.

SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT The cat has already been fed.

Oh!

Well, I can think of worse reasons to miss an episode of The Traitors

Coincidentally, I think hygiene ratings should not apply to Giles Coren

I will never get back the time I wasted reading this article this morning, and now you can too. Sub-Dowling, honestly. Gobsmacking.

Maybe she meant she was a barista? #thetraitors

Oh HELL yes, esp as someone who had a ticket to the abandoned 2020 production www.whatsonstage.com/news/sunday-...

Entry Level Train Horn #lostGuidedByVoicesLPs

Where I’m calling from

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

BYEBYE #thetraitors

COME ON #thetraitors

Reece is pieces #thetraitors

Afraid I’m not there with the ‘team Fiona, queen of chaos’ thing, guys. Hoping the other two team up and wipe her the fuck out. #thetraitors

Hated it, still hate it. #totp

In case anyone's wondering, "The Flame" samples this piece of garage-mod-punk marvellousness very heavily. #totp youtu.be/OeNRw-Xagx8?...

Great telly, but boy are you ANNOYING #thetraitors

Saw Marty Supreme which is, quite certainly and unequivocally, A Film.

When I run for mayor, I will pledge to mandate train carriages where no Big Wet Sniffles are allowed.

Ocean Lifted? Lifted Drive? #totp

Mark ‘control the narrative’ off on your bingo card now #thetraitors

£10 says we see Hugo in a Charles Tyrwhitt shirt with the sleeves rolled up at least once before the end of, say, episode three #thetraitors

Ruddy heck #thetraitors

James looks like he was in Gallon Drunk #thetraitors

“Has never beated”, Hugo? Tsk tsk #thetraitors

‘I’m not going to tell them I’m a police officer’ says the woman who looks more like a police officer than any other person in the entire world #Traitors

Just added some used music gear to my eBay store, if that’s the kind of thing you’d like to look at. More blu-rays etc. to come, I’d imagine. ebay.us/m/PxeBIh #pedals #npd #electroharmonix #wayhuge

Happy new year, lovely people who live in my phone x

Today’s gig

A special Christmas INVENTORY is FREE via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon now. What the Incredible String Band got up to 58 years ago today, and may the pure light within you guide you all the way on. 🙏 Christmas Day 1967/2025: The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter. www.patreon.com/backlisted

Love this. Learning is lifelong.

A good run spoiled #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday

Just went back to The Holdovers for the first time. Still loved it.

Merry Christmas, you wonderful old BlueSky building and loan… xxx

Lindsey Vickers, the lovely chap who made THE APPOINTMENT, has died. I've written a tribute to him here: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lin...

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

It is time.

Popping to Tesco. Wonder if it’ll be busy.

For a period of a couple of years during the 2010s I was employed regularly by cattle to shoot the covers for the albums they had recorded. It was always wonderfully inspiring to witness the love, hard work and passion they had put into their music and I think that comes through in the photos.