Strangers when we meet (BoS version) Teenage Wildlife Time Dollar Days New Killer Star Station to Station Speed of life Young Americans Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud Where are we now

Excellent Sukhdev Sandhu piece on We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher. Nice that he picked up on the Patrick Keiller vibe of the film among other elements www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7186...

I live in Belgium and this TV show finished TWENTY TWO years ago

Bowie was everything to me from my early to late twenties. The only thing I want to post is my love of this book. It's by far the most complete look at his last 5 years, going beyond the shock of his death which I feel has overshadowed a lot of the actual music. No Bowie fan will regret reading this

X / Twitter feels like the type of future that Nick Land wanted. I'm hoping that it will be the deathknell for every political mutation of Accelerationism, which at every step of the way has been a terrible thought stream

I don't want this to happen - but IF there is a movie made about Man Who Sold the World to Hunky Dory era David Bowie, then it's Jamie Campbell Bower isn't it.

Anyone wants to BUY the book, pre-orders have been available from @ortacpress.bsky.social for AGES. www.ortacpress.com/product-page...

This was such a great listen when it came out all those years. Combo of Donny's laid-back character and Leah Kardos's studiousness was a rare bit of unlikely podcast magic. Have no doubt that it still stands up

I read that Ekow Eshun did a 15 week course on this book for his Goldsmith's class in 2016 or something. Would love to have the transcripts for that

All this oil-based tension is sending me back to this book. A wild treatise about oil as a conscious entity trying to overtake reality. "Recall, however, that they spoke always of a buried terrestrial sun which must be exhumed, a rotting sun oozing black flame, the black corpse of the sun.”

Don Delillo topical as always

I am nudged out of my pervasive indifference to podcasts by this. I love Tom McCarthy. A writer who achieved the exact level of interest that he deserved.

The beautiful thing about a book is it can take the writer 5 or 10 years to write it, but it can take you even longer to read it and nothing within all of that takes away anything from the book, but probably adds to it. Every book read is a story in itself

Ruben Amorim will absolutely win a major European trophy with another club. The belief and conviction is there - but you know, Man Utd ain't a place for any of that. Too many lapsed Catholics in the squad, the faith is all gone there

It's a shame that each of these is outrageously unaffordable now. Lookout Cartridge in particular is one of the transatlantic bridges of experimental literature from the US to England. Its narrative and thematic usage of Stonehenge is the best I've read. One of the few US authors who gets England

The biggest societal difference I can think of between the UK and Europe is the fact that public holidays can be any day in Europe, not just Monday and Friday

Back to work

Probably going to try and re-read this soon. No reason ...

Now having finished this, I can't say for certain that it's one of the best novels I have ever read - but it certainly reminds me of the feeling I had after reading other books that I consider the best novel I have ever read

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

Like who in the Stranger Things cast is in the most staid musical side-project? It's a stacked field

Me when reading anything

I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.

I love Danny Welbeck. Proper player

The best thing I read this year music-writing wise

Reading the transcripts of the recent case of a tech worker who murdered his mother after positive reinforcement from ChatGPT and can't help but think that the next layer of the echo chamber is the echo cocoon where every interaction is an intensifying of the fortress of one's own mind - well or not

Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation

I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was

The proliferation of AI slop & brain rot feels like a strange derivation of post-modern culture, where the very is-ness of something is part of its appeal. Now, more than what is shown, it's what it's transmitted through (YouTube etc.) that is part of its appeal. Something like the phantom-modern.

Don Delillo novels: Under-rated: Cosmopolis Perfectly rated: Libra Over-rated: White Noise

The fact that the guy playing Vecna was in a The Wonder Years / Madina Lake / Enter Shikari type thing ten years ago makes me love the Upside Down even more

Winter has truly begun

Only one Shropshire sinkhole

What's the best Bowie album opener? I'm drawn towards the intoxication and thump of 'Young Americans' at the moment, but I have been an advocate for the instant jubilation of 'Modern Love' in the past.

I know Chris McCabe mostly for his astounding Magnificent Seven cemetries series, where he visits each of the seven grand Victorian London cemeteries to search for lost poets - but I forget he's an astounding poet in his own right. A beautiful Xmas-ish poem www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

'It feels like this group has been assembled by Lias as a reaction to the folly that followed the band during its Saoudi-Saoudi-Adamczewski era, and whilst that has its perks, it also has its pitfalls' Fat White Family - Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios buff.ly/dYQxf9m

The union of all my pet obsessions. Jean Ray, the theft of the Just Judges panel, and Egyptian mythology. And booooy is it stupid and underwhelming

I've never known less what I really think of a book nor a piece I wrote, but I've got some interesting feedback on it. So gonna bump this one up. I'll also attach a quote from the book I loved: "Well, that’s poetry, I reply. It’s an arcane language. A riddle that is built from hidden points."

As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows buff.ly/atfb6pn

Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??

My 17th annual tribute to the bands who broke up in the past year though it’s getting difficult to say which are really over. Some groups from last year’s montage already reunited, even if just for one night (hi METZ). One band in 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳’𝘴 video announced a gig while I was writing this caption. 🙃

Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it looks absolutely demented

I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.

I've always placed King Krule in the tradition of British weird fiction writers, a bit further up the chain from Machen, Blackwood, Hope Hodgson. Just tapping into this slow unveiling of another world. youtu.be/bWnK2t_FxrY?...

Thought this was about 'tap-dancing guy', which I'm still not entirely sure wasn't a vivid recurrent hallucination I had every time I got on the Victoria Line 20 years ago

There's a children's illustrated version of Moby Dick that I'm reading my 4 year old daughter at the moment and I don't think she's quite appreciating the abyss of mortality and humanity that we dive into each night. Mostly because this re-telling exclusively focuses on what a whale is

"Lazarus" was released as a download 10 years ago today---it feels both like the day before yesterday, and a lifetime ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PU...

I was doing a chronological read through of Joseph McElroy up until maybe 3 years ago. Think I might pick it up again. I got the monster in the pack next.

Mick Foley with more integrity than the entire WWE roster