Finally secured the bag

My personal fav Bark Psychosis record. So much closer to the textured, electronic bedroom rock-y sound of today (Caroline, Alex G etc).

One of literature's beautiful accidents.

You know what, near perfect list www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Me to my partner when they ask if they snored last night

Had this beautiful, beguiling book for over ten years. Re-read it more often than any other and it looks like it

Oh hell yeah

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Saw a trailer at the cinema today for a film called G.O.A.T. where the lead character is the greatest basketball player of all time and also, a goat.

Got so wavey the other day that I found out Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' is a cover.

Brugge Belfort, 23.59h last night, about 10 seconds before they turned the lights off.

Read almost all Burroughs as a 20 year old trying to impress a girl (didn't work). But I didn't read Interzone, thinking it was a cobbled together collection of stories. Having read it now by chance, it is the skeleton key to what would be the most ludicrous shift in styles I have read. (1/2)

A chapter from my book-in-progress is found here, in this splendid annual. Where I bemoan the disappearance of good pubky pubs in Leiden and invoje William Langland www.kormplastics.nl/the-third-an...

One of the best decisions I made in the last year was seeing John Cale live. Hoping to get the chance again

John Cale's late-stage run is genuinely inspirational. Charli XCX's current run is pure spectacle. This was always going to be amazing. youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...

Went to Alex G concert tonight and no-one knew the entire set up until the encore and I didn't know the set after the encore. Never felt the tiktok divide like that ever. but everyone there still for the love of the game and it was a beautiful concert. Everything will be alright

Lived here 15 years and I can say unequivocally that Belgium is custom-built to be sitting on €140bn of frozen Russian assets and being pulled in every direction about what to do with it. It is, by far, the most Belgian of situations.

Remembering William Hope Hodgson, author of 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Night Land' and other celebrated works of weird fiction. Killed in action at the Fourth Battle of Ypres on 19th April 1918, aged 40. #RemembranceSunday

Sunday morning writing music

If this was in a Paul Thomas Anderson film now, people would be saying it was an Oscar-winning scene. youtu.be/bMKpcPqwfK8?...

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Listening to Bassvictim after that P4K article. It's weird to see an entire sub-genre spawned from that sloppy but vulnerable electronic coda to Charli XCX's 'Forever'. It's this inauthentic vulnerability that is heartbreaking to me. music distancing itself from you and growing more isolated

As soon as the leaves fall to the ground, this one comes on.

The new Just Mustard album is such a great second album. Don't know how else to put it. It wades into darker, deeper waters - but also feels lighter and more fun.

In a year of mostly highs, I thought the highest high would be meeting my favourite writer to talk about one of my favourite books for an article. But having received a 50th anniversary reissue of said book, im happy to see a reminder of that day etched into it and a new high

More in my monthly column !¡ THE DRIFT open.substack.com/pub/loudandq...

Bowie around the time of 'Heathen' and 'Reality' really was just full of penetrating insights. My fav period of his to revisit interview-wise.

Taken time away from TS Eliot and Ted Hughes to re-visit The Cantos. Some of the most vitriolic poetry about the great artistic loss that is WWI

[Exit Ghost.]

I feel like The National will be the first band to have a film made from an album. Not like Yellow Submarine, but an adaptation. Probably Boxer or something. I think we are closer to this than people want to believe. We can still change the future

Trick or treat #Belgium

[Enter Ghost.]

The greatest liberation of owning a record player is feeling like taking a punt on a record just because it looks fucking bad ass. Today's find in Maastricht

Anyone else read that Harper's piece on gooning and simultaneously think it was a truly astounding piece of journalism, but also wish they'd never read it? Holy fuck.

Is beautiful to receive the new Legss LP - as well as their accompanying book, which they kindly asked me to write the afterword for. It's been a long time coming, but finally someone allowed me to talk about Grace Lake, Hollow London, and why the algorithm is the 21st century's T.S. Eliot

Leon Spilliaert is the king of the north sea macabre.

So many of the kids songs (I'm talking 4 years old) here in Belgium are heavy techno. It's the weirdest culture shock I've had in nearly 15 years of living here

Shadow Ticket isn't Blackstar, but it is The Next Day. A solid, warm return from a master. I think it's a good entry point for those new to Pynchon, where realistically there aren't many

As life goes on, all I want to do is read TS Eliot and Shakespeare.

Sometimes a man just needs to carve some time out for himself and read Orson Welles wiki page from top to bottom.

Billy tonight! open.spotify.com/track/4pepbI...

Still the most utterly deranged and beautiful leap for a singular meaning across Shakespeare's oeurve

I wish I hadn't already written about this, so I could write about it again.

The Jerskin Fendrix is a late(ish, I guess) album of the year shout. I think an album about the profoundest grief, by someone who is genuinely very very funny, is exactly what the doctor ordered

Album of the goddamn year

Honestly, like top two

I'm sad / happy that JG Ballard didn't live to see the tax-free seclusion zones / communitues in Dubai and elsewhere. There would have been the greatest stories there for his fucked-up, acute mind to articulate

I'm not saying they're related - but you can't ignore the rise of drone warfare as a geopolitical disorientation and the re-emergence of long throws in football. It's all fox in the box, getting it in the mixer, etc

This was really good. If it comes by town, definitely go

Finally checked out the new Suede record. Assumed people were saying the polite thing, but it is really up there with anything from the earlier days.