Michael Holden

Drama series about a man who wakes up in the middle of the night profoundly depressed about the possibility that 'Faith' will also be the main character's name.

Imagine how Peter Straughn feels...

If only I had thought of this "Greetings, Pope pickers," joke whilst watching Conclave months ago, instead of today, at the shops.

Pulp Friction “The object that behaves perfectly becomes no better than a hallucination.” open.substack.com/pub/precisei...

Is Our Relationship With Tech Turning Life Into One Giant Casino? Modern life has become an inescapable attention casino where we're perpetually distracted, stressed, and seeking a state of total absorption.

"The Attention Casino" a piece I wrote for
@vice now liberated from their paywall.
"The ‘zone’ in the casino where we find ourselves is not one of comfort. In fact, it runs on stress, anxiety, and a replica of togetherness experienced mostly while alone."
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Sheared, slaughtered and scorned. Ruminations on the ruminant. Of sheep, and eating menus.

Sheared, slaughtered and scorned. Ruminations on the ruminant. Of sheep, and eating menus. open.substack.com/pub/precisei...

The Fridge Magnet at the End of the Universe… (Don’t) Do the Hustle (part two)

The Fridge Magnet at the End of the Universe… "The pressure to know (internal and cultural) and our appetite and skills to do so are getting further apart, and in the widening distance between the two, we have the bullshit."
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Not with a bang, but… What are the appropriate emotions for the end of everything?

Not with a bang, but…
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Publish, and be Scammed Eyes down for the new meaninglessness

Publish, and be Scammed
The rickety rise of the fake author biography
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Our Mother the Mountain Greed, growing older and getting down with the uphill struggle.

Our Mother the Mountain - Greed, growing older and getting down with the uphill struggle.
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Handsome Booklet. 4-1

Michael Warburton on X: "Co-Director (with Nicolas Roeg) DONALD CAMMELL talks about making the cult-classic PERFORMANCE (1970) starring MICK JAGGER and JAMES FOX. https://t.co/euxSLX4aEw" / X Co-Director (with Nicolas Roeg) DONALD CAMMELL talks about making the cult-classic PERFORMANCE (1970) starring MICK JAGGER and JAMES FOX. https://t.co/euxSLX4aEw

Hello mate, of course, this is the only possible explanation. I don't have a blu ray any more than I have a blower upstairs. Maybe this is the moment that will make me attend to that. Is this film one of the extras?
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I find it hard to conceive this was not already something you own...

My book is out in two weeks. The self-promotional push! It begins!

Unmarked Raves Chasing status through intoxication

Unmarked Raves
Where George Eliot meets Giorgio Moroder
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Sunday Mourning On Weakening the Weekend.

"It would be a shame to be wise all your life – and to a large degree, pointless. What else are we here for – if not to change?" Sunday Mourning open.substack.com/pub/precisei...

Off to dissolve parliament...

Back Off to What? On older people and organised crime

Back Off to What?
"The “Grandpa Gang,” a clutch of French hoodlums in their 60s and 70s who, in 2016, disguised themselves as police and robbed Kim Kardashian in Paris without - they claim - having any idea who she was, is a tale of our age, as well as our aged."
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"I doubt any child of that era can forget the glaring disparity between the implied Bond villain universe of the packaging and the simplistic plastic reality it contained, but in that landscape of distractions this thing of pegs and guesswork was a global hit." open.substack.com/pub/precisei...

"Having spent a good part of the last five years moving between higher education and second hand bookshops, I did what a character in a video game based on me would resort to as a special move – I took a book off the shelf and looked it up."

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I've written a true story about how I spent 9/11 helping hundreds of terrified men to reach orgasm, in the new issue of The Fence.

I think 'civilization' is as good a word for it - it has all been decline since. Where is my 12 part BBC series in which I make this point clear?

"The young, forlorn-faced baker looked at me with an expression of defeat that would grace any Don McCullin picture and said, “we are not allowed to heat things up."
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Finding a cup full of ecstacy and this being a) a problem and also b) your 'favourite mug.'

Forget about keeping it real Reality is unkempt, but also needs reclaiming.

"Soon, nothing on any screen will be credible as fact, incredulity will be the only constant and those feelings… will be the only proof we have."
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It's great - much better with light than my (old) iPhone - not to take your eye and instinct out the equation of course.

Hello Richard - can I ask what kind of camera you used for this or typically use? 🙏

This is the way to go. Psychoanalysis was a reaction to the X Ray in some respects, I think - 'What is inside us that cannot be seen'

Life is Traffic But we are sold on the open road.

"The car of the imagination eats up the open road towards a better tomorrow – the car of reality loiters at the lights and may yet be towed away and crushed like (or even by) those dreams with which it was mis-sold."
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Real Life is Not a Headline
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