Christmas in The Village. From this day in 2016.

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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

At the post office, I may be some time 😬

Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles

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Only just heard of passing of Jimmy Cliff. ‘Many Rivers To Cross’ an impeccable bit of songwriting, doesn’t get much better than that. RIP.

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The #Fellini Masterpiece! Premiere: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957) 9:05pm #GiuliettaMasina #FrancoisPerier #FrancaMarzi Italian comedy-drama with English #TPTVsubtitles

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The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥 Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.

Not that I need an excuse, but this is a good reason to relisten to it.

Ten years ago, Storm Abigail became the first UK storm with a name. Since then, clear warnings have saved countless lives. Here’s how it works and some of the biggest storms we’ve seen since then. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Long, but stick with it: this is a brilliant, inspiring story and it moves on multiple levels.

I've been thinking about the challenges of rendering beauty & joy from parts of ourselves that can cause difficulties and misunderstandings. So it's perfect timing for JJJJJerome Ellis to do exactly this with their stuttering! If you have any interest in jazz that opens your heart, you must listen.

@julesfoddy.bsky.social You need to send her this. It’s quality!

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

I made this meme 11 years ago today. knew it’d come in handy again.

Oh fuck off

Going to check this out, not least to find out what we Brits had instead. Comic strip featuring George Formby and his little stick of Blackpool rock hopefully.

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The Parisianer is a temporary exhibition showcasing covers of the fictional magazine The Parisianer, inspired by the American magazine The New Yorker. A book compiling the covers was published in 2017 #bikesky #bici #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #paris #illustration #art #design #cycling #bikelife 🚲 🚴‍♂️

The new Rosalía album is absolutely spectacular. Yet another talented young woman refusing to take the easy path through a pop career, this has all the same ambition as Janelle Monáe, Kate Bush, Beyoncé & Bjork. Dripping with potty mouthed religious imagery, this is an instant masterpiece.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Clicked on a film on Amazon Prime and get a 3 minute advert before it’s even started. 😠

I guess The Ramblers only made the chart as every single one of their relatives bought a copy. #TOTP

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The Week in Music 🎧 Classical - Brahms, Scelsi, Glass Dance/Pop - Disclosure, AlunaGeorge House/Tech - Vynehall, Talabot, Dusky R&B/Pop - Tyla, Rosalia, Twigs Jazz - DeJohnette, Pharoah Electronic - Autechre, Loula Yorke Icons - Bjork, Joni, Salif Keita Your faves this week?

This is a day late. My friend Rebecca who’s not on social media shared pics of her pumpkin lanterns with me and they’re too good not to share.

Micky Dolenz aged 8 in 1953 wearing his prize winning 'History of Halloween' costume.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

Late night last night seeing the wonderful Brandy Clark. Based on the new songs she played, next album is going to be a classic.

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Wish my passport photo looked like Florian Schneider’s and not like someone who’s just been arrested for selling stolen goods. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/207...

So sad to hear about the passing of Dave Ball. The Ron to Marc Almonds’s Russell. The first three Soft Cell albums are impeccable, not least ‘The Art of Falling Apart’ . He goes to town on ‘TAOFA’ Hendrix medley. Only a week before the reissues too. youtu.be/m568go823Fk

R.I.P., Dave Ball of Soft Cell. Marc Almond might've been out front, but Dave was just as crucial to Soft Cell's success, and I don't think Marc would disagree. This is one of Soft Cell's more recent tracks, and it's one I think of often, as it resonates a bit more every day, sadly. Give it a spin.

RIP Dave Ball, author of the sleaziest synth sounds in pop history

In tribute to the spookiest month of all, here’s a very stupid Siouxsie Sioux/Bewitched mashup I drew a year or two back.

Bought a box of CDs from eBay. One of which is ‘Idlewild’, one of the few Everything But The Girl albums I don’t have. Saw a bit of paper sticking out from the case. A ticket stub or press blurb? No, even better…

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Loveride wasn’t the first song to use the Fairlight Orch5 orchestral stab, not even the first one in this month’s poll. Hard to find another which uses it with such thunderous intent.

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

Been offline today, log back on to hear about D’Angelo. What a terrible loss. Only three albums but what a perfect trio. RIP