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The erotic potential of Marlon and Liz, Reflections in a Golden Eye.

Haven’t listened to this masterpiece fully in 25 years. I drifted away from Radiohead after Amnesiac, and missed out on some great art and being part of that conversation, but I was trying to make pop music in my own right and this wasn’t part of that influence. Still sounds brand spanking new.

Tuesday youtu.be/GOK8_hlX09A

Winchester '73 premiered in the U.S. 76 years ago today

God isn’t in the numbers, he’s in the weave of a canvas Photo: Edward Quinn 1980

I’m increasingly of the opinion that, because life throws unwanted curveballs, you should run in the opposite direction of that which makes you in any way unhappy, that you do not wish to do, and people who you find objectionable. Surround yourself with your favourites. Say no more than you say yes.

When you little brother lies with his bum in your face

Magnificence

The influence of Valerie Philips on this lede image was initially lost on me because I was distracted by the sexual charge of it. She should probably be paid a royalty for it, though she’d never resort to this sexual pose- male photographer, male hetero desire. Why isn’t she more celebrated?

Noisy neighbour

No horror film, no horror novel, no work of fiction, can match the true horror of real life...

“Bridget Dalton, a semiotician and cultural analyst at Truth Consulting, described this wave of museum merch as “cultural capital in the old school bourgeois sense”.” Stop the world, I want to get off. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

In 1963 my great uncle was on This Is Your Life. He’d piloted landing craft in the D Day landings and had appeared in a BBC documentary. Leo Genn was a special guest, and my Grandmother and 7 year old Mother also appeared. He and I are the only members of my family on IMDB

But Henry’s are like big marbles.

His little brother’s are the best- they’ve got this edge around his pupil that’s the most beautiful blue green. He’s a bonnie kid. They were very blue when he was a baby, and the bigger his pupils get, the wider the blue is, so the green of his eyes disappears and they become all blue.

TheSpecialOne brought me a rat today. The kills are sporadic, smaller and younger which is an indication that he is slowing down and less capable than he was. He once brought me a goldfinch, which I couldn’t believe he’d caught, but he’s muscular, fast and very patient. Amazing cat.

Beautiful solidarity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

It’s the way I tell ‘em

The Kid

It’s the way I tell ‘em

"Maybe propping the boulder 95% of the way up is good enough, when you don’t have infinity. Sisyphus is a reminder that our time is not unlimited. That it is too short for unreachable goals, like perfectionism. I was going to say the unhealthy kind, but actually there is only the unhealthy kind."

Jeff Buckley drowned 29 years ago yesterday. It’s not overstatement to say- based solely on the material he left behind- that he had the potential to be a legacy artist in the vein of Dylan and Springsteen. My Sweetheart the Drunk would have been a remarkable record. youtu.be/VcQcEHLjJv8

Sometimes I work really hard to articulate a concept for a painting, and sometimes….

“I like art. I grew up drawing and painting, did GCSE art and still paint now. But when I go to a gallery now, hoping that this time I’ll feel something, I’m dismayed by the sheer volume of what’s on offer” I don’t even know where to start.

The weekend is a great time to binge It Happened in Hollywood podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

What people find hard to swallow is that she claims she was completely exonerated, which is not the same thing as the police not having enough evidence to charge when you’ve ’no commented’ through hours of interrogation. I’d know if my other half was suddenly spending money they shouldn’t have.

This actually stars the guy who was the voice of The Speaking Clock for many years!

There’s beauty in the idea of not existing. In a future scrubbed of any trace that we were here. Of completely disappearing when we die. We leave no legacy other than perhaps a biological one, so we are forced to make maximum impact when it counts, to extract full value from the business of living.

Happy 115th birthday to a small mountain hut in the Bavarian Alps! Why? Because it was opened on this day in 1911, of course. And... um... 🧵

This articulates my stance almost exactly, though I have more to say. AI ‘art’ infuriates-but more so the charlatans and shortcut takers who peddle it as some sort of breakthrough. It’s not, it’s a sham. Put in the work- that’s where the joy lies, and that’s what these pricks will never understand.

I’ve befriended a breathtakingly good Australian artist called Dave Puck, who I recommend you check out on Instagram if that’s your thing. Anyway, he turned me on to Tim Storrier, another painter from Oz who makes these beautiful carcass paintings that are far more menacing than mine. Glorious.

@pgjonesvenice.bsky.social thought you would appreciate this www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

We ride again. 2nd floor. Looks out onto a wooded burn. Fabulous light. Needs the carpet ripping out and the furniture ditched, but this feels good.

THE LIGHTNING BUGS ARE OUT

Children of the 60s, 70s and 80s had a tinfoil wrapped vision of Utopia full of Acorn PCs, Sinclair C5s and laser discs. What happened? Did we never reach our potential or did we get there and discover we hated it?

I can’t bring myself to wish death on anybody, even the most egregiously demented fascistic soulless cretin rapists, even if they have zero redeeming qualities and can be safely labelled as an oxygen thief, but I reckon if he was incapacitated then that wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing.

I dislike who the founder of bigbrotherwatchuk is, but as the left have largely abandoned civil freedoms to the right, and are pushing for MORE restrictions, we are where we are. I believe that these measures are fundamentally authoritarian, and once taken these freedoms cannot be restored.

Henry. There’s a complex inner life going on in this cat. He’s a complete loner, totally self sufficient, but if I go into the garden he cries to be picked up and carried back into the house like a baby. He always comes back to his dad.

Henry.

@jameschristopher.bsky.social Jimmy’s up.

I’m a big fan of James Payne- his mission is essentially to demystify the art world and to draw back the curtain, to explain the motivations of artists, their techniques, and what makes their work great. He doesn’t patronise, and that’s incredibly important. Recommended. youtu.be/5STejrUkgfY

@johnrain.co.uk About to tuck into a helping of Kong-based Smersh. I wrote about this splendid film a while back, if you’re short of Bank Holiday reading material. www.filminquiry.com/king-kong-po...

The beast in his natural environment.

The lost Joan Crawford masterpiece Letty Lynton is finally coming to blu ray in June. Fans of pre code Hollywood have been denied the film for eighty years; we’ve had to put up with atrocious washed-out bootlegs with badly synced audio, but that is now over. www.blu-ray.com/movies/Letty...

More Horden/Nose’s Point There is still evidence of the ‘black beach’ today, which is what made it an attractive filming location in ‘91, but it’s mercifully slim. It’s an incredible place. I watched the northern lights from here a few years ago, which was transcendent.

Horden Beach, where Ripley washed ashore in Alien 3

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