Lee Ward
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It's books and music all the way down.
Better than I thought it'd be (I thought it would be tremendous)
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Geese - Getting Killed | From The Basement
YouTube video by From The Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIol9hig2G4&list=RDqIol9hig2G4&start_radio=1
about 17 hours ago
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The Rosalia album really does deserve every hosanna
about 17 hours ago
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Stereogum
1 day ago
Spotify has announced more in-depth song credits and a "SongDNA" feature powered by Whosampled, which they recently acquired
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Spotify Announces Updated Song Credits Feature
It has not been the most flattering PR year for Spotify. Since last spring, popular bands like Deerhoof, Massive Attack,Ā Sylvan Esso,Ā King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard,Ā Hotline TNT, and countless mor...
https://stereogum.com/2480141/spotify-announces-updated-song-credits-feature/news
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That thing where, if you can't find the book you *want* to read (in this case, Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald) anywhere in the house, then all the other books just feel *wrong*
1 day ago
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SNOW! A lot of it! OK, stop now.
2 days ago
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I hope people realise AI isn't going away if the AI bubble bursts, any more than the internet went away when the dotcom bubble burst.
3 days ago
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Been looking forward all year to Chris Thile at the London Jazz Festival at the Barbican! Can't wait! Oh, it was last night.
5 days ago
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Only now, some 40 years on, do I connect the writer of that short story with the author of Mythago Wood. Wow.
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7 days ago
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Reading a book that feels like it's set in the uncanny valley. It's meant to be contemporary, but a 20yo girl will keep lighting a silk cut and saying "Of course I'm not happy! I don't even exist! I made a bargain with God and I lost!"
9 days ago
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Is the Prescott Report in the public domain yet? I.e. is there a way to read it without having to sign up to the Telegraph.
11 days ago
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I realise audiobooks have made me a better reader: I now more clearly hear a voice when reading. And you can cast your own narrator in your minds ear: what would this sound like if Alex Jennings were reading it? Or Lydia Leonard. And so on
12 days ago
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Bluesky search, JFC. Won't be searching for BBC again in a hurry.
13 days ago
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Andrew Male
15 days ago
Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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A voice that still carries: Aimee Mannās greatest songs ā ranked!
Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album Iām With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/06/aimee-mann-greatest-songs-ranked
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If there were five better books than Helm this yearā¦. Canāt wait to read them
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16 days ago
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Gah, seems from the H is for Hawk trailer they've binned all the T.H. White stuff. That's what made the book work! Cowards, etc
16 days ago
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Getting turned away from a club and then accepting a lift "to some other club" from a pair of semi-professional drug-dealers.
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21 days ago
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The real problem here is of course: what to read next. I can see myself hurling a succession of slim autofictive novellas out the window til I find something that scratches the itch.
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24 days ago
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Design Room
about 1 month ago
For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from
@milkman.bsky.social
@shmuplations.bsky.social
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Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Icoās masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didnāt).
https://www.designroom.site/shadow-of-the-colossus-oral-history/
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My other opinion about books is that this poem by Fiona Benson is magnificent. 'Haunted little veterans'!
about 1 month ago
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My principal opinion about books as objects is you should read this book about books as objects
about 1 month ago
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annoyed about this all over again. you just hear them going 'Bill Nighy! Trebles all round!' and not 'is this actually going to work? Like, at all?'
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about 1 month ago
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Feel slightly bad for Maria Corina Machado. Every post about her win is really about someone else.
about 1 month ago
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Would love to care about anything as much as British blueskiers care about who runs CBS News.
about 2 months ago
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Isaac! At the Butler!
about 2 months ago
I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That Heās Also a Joke?
He might be the greatest actor of all timeāand the most misunderstood.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/10/daniel-day-lewis-anemone-movie-oscars-best-actor.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook
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Who is 'jay' and what is the bad thing they've done?
about 2 months ago
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A more honest piece would have talked to people who live in the Chilterns, who live in fact in the Misbourne valleyālike me!āand asked their opinion. Which would basically be partridge-shrug.gif
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about 2 months ago
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OMG it's Steven J. Lockjaw
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about 2 months ago
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Something very telling about Farage saying Reform would clean up next May, at "our equivalent of the mid-terms". Very America-brained.
about 2 months ago
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Big piece in the Guardian yesterday about a girl suffering from "chronic Lyme disease", immediately thought of this brilliant piece:
www.thecut.com/2019/07/what...
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What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity?
The tick-borne disease thatās now a movement.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/what-happens-when-lyme-disease-becomes-an-identity.html
about 2 months ago
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"Thessalie Wayward, a successful stage mentalist". He's still got it!
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about 2 months ago
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I'll be honest - it's not clear to me that this is AI
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Michael Jackson - Thriller, if it was recorded in the 50s
YouTube video by marceve76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwzcp-lEDDc
2 months ago
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Andrew Male
2 months ago
Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why donāt Peter Blakeās other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?
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There is a genuinely extraordinary number of England flags in my (well-to-do, not poor, middle England) town. Where are they coming from?
2 months ago
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You just know there's gonna be some ugly tweets from the good people of Bluesky
2 months ago
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"Post a perfect album from the 90ās that isnāt Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains"
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2 months ago
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Still, at least that means there's a vacancy for Amol Rajan
3 months ago
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Oh. Twats have come to the despoiled hellscape of the Chilterns
3 months ago
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Rewatching his Young Peopleās Concerts thinking, the perfect framing device was *right there* ā
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3 months ago
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And, just like that, he was gone. I'm choosing to believe* he went back down the plughole. * for the sake of my sanity
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3 months ago
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Iām putting rather a lot of faith in the whole āthey can never climb outā truism. Heās inching ever closerā¦
3 months ago
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Had a massage. The music included Richterās On the Nature of Daylight, which struck a weirdly tragic note. I mean, Iāve got knots, but theyāre not⦠terminal?
3 months ago
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Most discombobulating thing: people I know and love and even share a life with saying āwasnāt Hoult great?ā
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3 months ago
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For the second year in a row, Iāve gone on holiday, to discover itās warmer back in the UK.
3 months ago
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Well that solves it:
3 months ago
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In the grand scheme of things itās nothing, but the time Unbound mistakenly sent me five copies of 42: The Douglas Adams Archive and then refused to take them back when I emailed them? Making more sense now
3 months ago
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Going to delete some posts in case I find myself arguing about Christianity like some r/atheism dweller from 2010.
4 months ago
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This is brilliant. Now I just need someone to do the first Pigeonhed record and my 90s bases are covered.
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4 months ago
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My 11yo is physically offended by me purporting to like PinkPantheress. Literally contorted with cringe.
4 months ago
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I can't deny, this was the first *album* I was ever obsessed with. Basically wore out the cassette while painting Warhammer miniatures.
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4 months ago
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Watching Sinners again, and still think itās incredibly slow to get going.
4 months ago
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