The photo you see below was taken by the marvellous Travis Elborough in Bunhill Fields after Sinclair had walked us there. He had just climbed on top of the grave marking of John Bunyan seconds earlier. Sinclair is the real deal.

I read that New Yorker review and realised how much people want something from Pynchon that honestly he delivered maybe three times.

This day gave me things to think and write about for years.

Ozempic is genuinely the product that neoliberal capitalism promised us

You only really need to go to the website and look at that monster Bowie / Walker article from yesterday to realise that that sort of online haven is gone without the quietus. Needs support but gives so much more back

New Danny Brown, oh yes yes yes

Economics is astrology for men

Famous were the first band I interviewed back in 2020. So it was an honour to go one final time before the group take their exit. Good stuff in here about art as identity and keeping together this act over the years. Plot twist at the end too www.clashmusic.com/features/sur...

Annual sale of library books by local library. Got there late but still managed to grab these. All clearly unread. €5 for the lot.

This new Pynchon novel is going to be released in the most fractious, heated time and it's going to be 85% limericks about cheese making in Bavaria while its main character does cartwheels in lederhosen.

This is just fantastic end of summer listening

I am pretty awe struck by the new Legss album ‘Unreal’. Possibly the debut of the year. Review here, Forza Legss www.clashmusic.com/reviews/legs...

One of the few bands I genuinely care about. The bigger names from the Windmill scene get the attention (rightfully), but Legss are the man on the streets interpreter of London and its weird ways

Massive generalisation on my part, but I feel like every piece of art ends with a name. And every piece of AI slop starts with a title

Tropical Fuck Storm are the best live band I've seen in fucking years

This is fascinating. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My favourite track from Jerskin Fendrix's new album is out and I'd really advise you to carve out 10 minutes for yourself in a quiet room to give it a listen open.spotify.com/track/2v2mx2...

I love the Quietus and the people who run it and the people who write for it. There's nothing I'd recommend stronger than supporting in some way if you can. The subscription is the only thing I'm happy to see go out each month

The Orchestra (For Now) are really good. Who knew! open.spotify.com/track/4Qh12D...

Returning to this for a piece i'm writing. I don't think nearly enough is written / discussed about Fisher's full realisation of what was slowly happening to our grasp and ownership of time. youtu.be/h4r9-AmfaDs?...

The remix of 'Good Luck, Babe' goes so hard on this. Can't wait to see the film! youtu.be/bd_5HcTujfc?...

Feels nostalgic to see one of these in the wild again!

Anyone seen the last couple seasons of Six Feet Under where the old guy becomes increasingly fixated and then deluded by available water reserves? That's me, only it's the Gorillaz discography

As it receives a new 10th anniversary release, Zachary Lipez delves back into the metafiction, self-interruptions, complexities digressions and inversions that made Billy Woods' Today, I Wrote Nothing a masterpiece Reissue of the Week: #BillyWoods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing buff.ly/MH1UUwp

Squid's 'O Monolith' is way better than we (me) gave it credit for.

One of my favourite artists this decade. The delicate treading through our physical, spiritual, and digital selves is really captivating and disorientating.

Went to mini-Europe in Brussels today. Utterly unhinged tourist destination. Middle of nowhere, decor + furnishings seemingly untouched since 1990s, but fuck me they knew how to make a mini-Europe exciting. Had Eurovision energy, but just for a small model continent.

Making a listicle about Thomas Pynchon novels is one thing. Putting Mason & Dixon top of said listicle is another. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

GY!BE off Spotify it seems. Heroes.

Boy dinner

Football is back and so is the dormant existential question of 'do I want to keep on doing this?'

This connected everything I was feeling

'Reality' is the David Bowie album I most frequently water my garden to

Willoughby Tucker, I'll always love you.

I have never been radicalised by anything (to my knowledge) but this summer has made me open to joining any efforts to erase Oasis's music from existence.

I think I've posted more about this than anything. But a large part of Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is about the essence of 'quality' and how we know what it is or isn't. I can't imagine there being a more vital book now.

Today is my birthday, and I'm not above leveraging that for book sales. As a gift to me, if you're interested in indie music 2000-2020 (and its gradual metamorphosis into pop), pre-order SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion and recirculate this post.

Listening to some albums is more like attending mass to me than consuming music. This is one of them.

Was happy to find one of my favourite Bowie's still sealed for less than £20.

My favourite The Fall record?

Summers are for non-fiction trilogies and non-fiction trilogies only

Coil's 'Further back and faster' could conceivably be a Drake song

My favourite record of the year so far. 'new David bowie' is as fresh a sound as I've heard in a while

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what they call the 'good stuff'.

If there's one record I associate with my youth in London, it's this. I spent most weekends + a lot of week days at the Underworld. I saw all the UK punk and hardcore bands of the mid 00s there. But man I was never more excited than when Municipal Waste came to play. open.spotify.com/track/1jMjbr...

Re-reading the last section of Gravity's Rainbow and I forgot how glorious it is.

One odd thing about living in Belgium is I can order a book or record from Germany, Luxembourg, France and The Netherlands with the same level of ease as Belgium. I was looking to preorder new Pynchon book and had about 6-7 different prices to choose from from the same major cut-price book vendor.