Getting burned out on “literature as utopia,” “literature as a way of imagining things being otherwise,” going back to “literature with really really good visual descriptions”

Lol we have the #1 trending song on Amazing Radio UK

Happy to see music I’ve made get played here and there on internet & FM radio this past month, so here it all is again: lnk.to/underthehammer paulbuchholz.bandcamp.com

I write about Krasznahorkai in the conclusion of my book: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081013664...

Song I recorded in London this summer is getting repeat play on the radio in the UK, starts at about 1:49:00 www.mixcloud.com/brian-player...

Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764) #Wales #Literature #English #language

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

Golden light in 35mm

Preorder here: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

George Eliot writing the stone-cold coolest first paragraph of a novel I’ve read

In Cologne in summer 2001 I went to a cafe west of the Altstadt that had white walls covered in large pen-writing. There was counter seating in the center where I sat down for breakfast and on the menu they had funny breakfasts like the “Stadt-Frühstück“ which was I believe a coffee and an aspirin.

Guy Debord might seem like a chill dude, but miss the deadline on your psychogeographic study of Venice and you are OUT of the Situationist International.

Das weltweit befürchtete Computerchaos

This is incredible.

Some very cool, some very significant people have preordered this, but are you one of them?

Please enjoy this “local public access TV channel”-style spotlight on our new EP, shot on location in my hometown of Milwaukee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

Well, technically it’s still summer, so don’t call it moonlighting. Our new EP will be out on vinyl this Halloween. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

Well, technically it’s still summer, so don’t call it moonlighting. Our new EP will be out on vinyl this Halloween. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

“Elaine Dundy described it in The Old Man and Me as ‘a sort of coal hole in the heart of SoHo that is open every afternoon, a dead-ended subterranean tunnel…an atmosphere almost solid with failure.’” Barry Miles, London Calling

Yorkshire in 35mm

It Isn’t April In St. John’s Without Flipper Pie

Spain sunlight in 35mm

“And I ain’t seen the sun shine since / I don’t know when”

Didn’t think I could love this film anymore than I already did

Yorkshire Dales. The best thing about the world is the light.

Leeds, July 5, 2025

Yorkshire Dales. The best thing about the world is the light.

What an absolute treat of a book this is

I released a new solo song under my own name, for the first time in almost two decades. Recorded at MAP studios in London. Links in the thread.

I released a new solo song under my own name, for the first time in almost two decades. Recorded at MAP studios in London. Links in the thread.

You heard it here first!

Issue #1 of Edinburgh underground paper "Four the Wardrobe" vs. issue #2, from 1970. The Salad Bowl started off on the wrong foot, and one issue later, was utterly vanquished by Eustace.

Disc 2 of Debussy Piano Works by Pascal Rogé am I right

Constructing a new form of subjectivity and imagining new modes of togetherness and co-articulation (spending less time online)

Covent Garden in 1979

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Yesterday in Lewes, England with my friend John May, the underground journalist, musician, and living archive of the counterculture. Talking about Shirley Collins, Ladbroke Grove, and the pagan weirdos he saw lighting candles by the stage in a tiny club on Black Sabbath’s first tour.

Best museum in Madrid

If only this were current

“Monsieur, I know that I can count on your discretion. I am—perhaps these are not your ideas, but you are so broad-minded—I am a Socialist.”

“Tom Tailor” is not a real person

Mariahilfer Tableau

Guy on the Melk Abbey tour wearing a Saxon “Hell, Fire and Damnation” tour shirt and a Dio baseball cap.

Nothing has helped my comprehension and acquisition of Viennese pronunciation like this coffee roaster with its extremely testy and overbearing yet also disarmingly friendly owner, who never stops telling exasperated stories and interpellating anyone within an earshot.

“Dann ist Wien Nord-Norditalien” (overheard walking by pizzeria in the 7th)

Waiting to learn the details of the Musk-Trump dispute until I have time to sit in a Ringstraße coffee house & read about it in a newspaper bound to a wooden rod

Glad to know that in continental Europe you can still buy a bar of soap that, when you wash your face, burns your eyes like a bath of acid