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I’m the dog who stole your birthday cake.
https://somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/
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Trailers can put you in a bad mood. As can drafting in the wrong raptor. Thoughts on Chloé Zhao’s adaption of 'Hamnet'.
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Invasive Species - Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet'
This week, I’ve been worrying that I’ve been harsh on Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet . My bugbear was that I f...
https://somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2026/01/invasive-species-chloe-zhaos-hamnet.html
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It’s not even ten and I’m dozing off. To bed then with a bit of Roddy and Aztec Camera.
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Radio 2 In Concert - Aztec Camera (1993) - BBC Sounds
Aztec Camera performing at Manchester's Palace Theatre in 1993.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001t0kd?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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I’ve been reading Richard Siken’s Crush over the past few weeks, and I keep coming back, like Scheherazade herself, to the opening poem in the collection.
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Jeremy Millar
about 15 hours ago
The best
#ValentinesDay
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Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"
YouTube video by Modo de Usar
https://youtu.be/YDLwivcpFe8?si=95ROlED8Gd9r08_J
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Twenty-five years ago, I scoffed at Tracey Emin and her art. ‘Insufferable and talentless’, reads my journal. What a dick! She’s amazing and a quite brilliant artist. Can’t wait for the Tate show!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/14/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking
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Do yourself a favour. Take ten minutes to read this.
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/14/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking?CMP=share_btn_url
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Watching Jaws with my 12-year old last night at the cinema. He loved it! But awkward questions: "Dad, what does Quint mean by "Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women!" I'm a sailor, and I don't even know the answer to that! :-)
about 16 hours ago
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Good dad or bad dad? About to traumatise / thrill the boy with the greatest film ever made on the big screen. Jaws! Side-eye inbound for the Ben Gardener head scene! 🎬
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Call me Old Fashioned! Chin Chin, shipmates! And happy weekend!
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Fantastic feel-good television, every bit as good as The Detectorists. Favourite character: the annoyingly uncurious and ridiculous 'Get your fucking hedge cut' next door neighbour Clive. "My neighbour has got monkeys in his shed!"
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Small Prophets
The magical and the mundane unfolds in a suburban shed as a lonely man stumbles into the supernatural. A weird and wonderful world from Mackenzie Crook, starring Michael Palin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q765/small-prophets
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At the Old Vic for Arcadia. Third Tom Stoppard in a year. I’m practically a groupie.
3 days ago
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Excellent and informative piece in the
@lrb.co.uk
on Barnett Newman. It’s convinced me that I can do better than dismissively saying ‘Rothko with a zipper’.
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“Let us eat, drink and be merry. There are sausages in the scrutoire; there is beer in the green jug. I shall regale myself on toasted cheese.” Stephen Maturin is coming very close to being my favourite character in literature.
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Troublemaker
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George Monbiot
11 days ago
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
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Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
https://www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2181/
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Life is like Tottenham Hotspur; you never know what you’re going to get! 🤣
#COYG
13 days ago
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Tate Britain this afternoon. I’ve really learned to love John Constable over the past ten years … he dazzles and charms and makes you want to stomp out into the meadows for a brisk walk. But he’s no Turner!
13 days ago
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14 days ago
If you get chance have a peek outside. It’s a full moon, except for the tiniest edge. Brilliant and mottled, with Venus bright and clear, up and to the right. Tomorrow it counts as the proper full moon, the Snow Moon. A treat.
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A pint, a bit of shore-time with Aubrey and Maturin, and 4-0 to the Arsenal.
14 days ago
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Ah nuts! It’s boring reading Frank O’Hara in London as if I were a 1950s hipster waiting for my Vodka Martini … Not true of course. Reading Frank O’Hara is never being boring.
15 days ago
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Somewhere between Minneapolis and the Angel of Islington. Craig Finn and the Band of Forgiveness at the Union Chapel.
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33 years of gig going in London and only now is it my first time at the Union Chapel. Craig Finn without The Hold Steady. The latter will be next month. Also, ‘church with a bar klaxon’!
15 days ago
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At the Hampstead Theatre for Indian Ink. Felicity Kendall in a Tom Stoppard play. Just don’t tell Miriam.
16 days ago
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Currently ranting out loud in the office that this man is not from Wigan. Next steps will be sending around a google maps link of Astley to show just how far away from Wigan it is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Wigan lottery winner, 80, helped build counterfeit drugs empire, court told
John Eric Spiby is one of four jailed for being part of gang running operation worth up to £288m
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/29/wigan-lottery-winner-counterfeit-drugs-empire-court
17 days ago
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This morning in Tottenham
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I miss Frank Sidebottom, Terry Hall and you! :-)
18 days ago
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Lovely and drunk on the bus home listening to Phoebe Bridgers. ‘You said when you met me you were bored.’
18 days ago
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Columbo's wife, all day long! Wait, there's a spin-off series featuring Columbo's wife! WTF?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Nudist neighbours to sweary mums: the best TV characters you never actually see on screen
Their faces may not have been given any airtime, but they remain some of the most beloved characters in television history – in shows like Friends, Frasier and This Country. Take a bow, Ugly Naked Guy...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/27/best-tv-characters-youve-never-actually-seen
18 days ago
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Perfect Henry James quote on Fra Angelico (and religious art). ‘You may be as little of a formal Christian as Fra Angelico was much of one, you yet feel admonished by spiritual decency to let so yearning a view of the Christian story work its utmost will on you.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Anna McGee · At the Palazzo Strozzi: On Fra Angelico
Faced with a parade of flushed Madonnas and anguished Christs, it would be easy to think that Fra Angelico was somehow...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n01/anna-mcgee/at-the-palazzo-strozzi
19 days ago
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Falstaff me regarde! 😳
22 days ago
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Watching The Traitors for the first time so I can gather round the water cooler on Monday and jibber-jabber. All I’ve got to say so far is that ‘I love a turret’!
22 days ago
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Trailers can put you in a bad mood. As can drafting in the wrong raptor. Thoughts on Chloé Zhao’s adaption of 'Hamnet'.
somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2026/01/inva...
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Invasive Species - Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet'
This week, I’ve been worrying that I’ve been harsh on Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet . My bugbear was that I f...
https://somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2026/01/invasive-species-chloe-zhaos-hamnet.html
23 days ago
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Loved my spontaneous trip to Wigmore Hall last night to see The Jerusalem Quartet. The highlight was Ravel's String Quartet and the frantic pizzicato in the second movement. The January blues temporarily dispelled.
@wigmore-hall.org.uk
24 days ago
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Do I read this or the piece on Britney Spears first? I think you know the answer. Hit me, baby, one more time!
@lrb.co.uk
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24 days ago
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Some calm amidst the storm. At Wigmore Hall for the Jerusalem Quartet. Mozart, Ravel and Shulamit Ran.
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Faint silver linings. Hope the Moth Club manages to stay afloat too.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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UK grassroots music venues show lowest decline since 2018 as sector stabilises post-pandemic
The number of small venues shrank by just nine in 2025, but more than half of them reported making no profit, while employment in the sector dropped almost 22%
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/21/uk-grassroots-music-venues-show-lowest-decline-since-2018-as-sector-stabilises-post-pandemic
25 days ago
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A second viewing of David Lynch's Inland Empire last night, and - though I know better than to try and make full sense of it - it's still a glorious fever dream. Rewatching this scene in isolation today offers a key. Laura Dern's face is ours in the movie theatre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2...
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Inland Empire Locomotion
YouTube video by Krister Bertilsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRh2L7tJqcI
27 days ago
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Horrid and dramatic start to the week. Stepping out for my morning run and within a minute a piece of metal going through the sole of my barefoot trainer and piercing my heel. To the Royal London for a tetanus jab! Still, the week can only go uphill (with a limp) from here! Look at the bastard!
27 days ago
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Here for Inland Empire, but if I’d been a bit quicker off the mark I could have made it an amazing double bill, Withnail himself doing the Q&A.
27 days ago
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Hamnet is a very dirty film. Not in that way, Matron! :-) Rather fingernails and hands, the sides of Tudor houses, filthy streets.
28 days ago
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Rhodri Marsden
29 days ago
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Taxidermied Tories is rather beautiful (in a bad taxidermy way). Very harsh on Bucks Fizz though.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mystic Nigel has seen the future: a country run by his cabinet of taxidermied Tories | Marina Hyde
By welcoming ‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick into the fold, the Reform seer is embracing the uniparty chaos he claimed to be seeing off, writes Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/nigel-farage-cabinet-tories-robert-jenrick
29 days ago
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Get your weekend off to a fine start by watching this, and gasping in wonder as Jeff and the gang nail the noodly bit in Turn To Stone.
#ELO
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpj...
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Jeff Lynne's ELO - Turn to Stone (Live at Wembley Stadium)
YouTube video by ELOVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpjF1qtpt0&list=RDkXpjF1qtpt0&start_radio=1
30 days ago
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I watched The Greatest Night in Pop last night. All about the recording of We Are The World. I don't really like the song, but loved this documentary. All that was missing was a permanent Bob Dylan cam. He was utterly lost until Stevie Wonder sorted him out.
30 days ago
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The glory that was Phoenix Nights, and memories of my own nights out in Clubland (Goose Green Labour Club ... not that Goose Green, sunshine!) A quibble on this Guardian piece though ... it doesn't half read like it's been generated by AI.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Phoenix Nights: 25 years since Peter Kay’s record-breaking TV comedy like no other
The eccentric, sharp-eyed sitcom was so loved that it was once the fastest-selling DVD ever. A quarter of a century on from its Channel 4 debut, why has it fallen so far off the radar?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jan/14/phoenix-nights-25-years-since-peter-kays-record-breaking-tv-comedy-like-no-other
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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Marginalia from 2004. I wasn’t wrong!
#Proust
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"AI will have mowed the lawn and washed the dishes, assuming that some remnant of ordinary life persists. This seems optimistic." Marilynne Robinson on AI and affordability.
@nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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At What Cost? | Marilynne Robinson
New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/01/15/at-what-cost-marilynne-robinson/
about 1 month ago
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Afternoon parts one and two.
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about 1 month ago
Either thick or pretending to be thick. Neither is good…(unlike the amusing examples of correlation in the replies)
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Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.
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