After the recent off cycle election results and the Michigan sentiment numbers, the DEMS hold all the good cards. Not time to fold.

Beats why this film is never available to stream

This episode was the perfect representation of what makes Backlisted unmissable. Very very enjoyable and enlightening.

Ryder Cup 2025 =Berlin Olympics 1936

Her latest studio and live albums are brilliant. Longevity to go along with all else.

It’s safer for us that this guy goes back to Science Fiction rather than continue to butcher ‘Historical Fiction’

In 1985 I was at UCLA grad school brooding over a broken engagement. Paris Texas was just out and showing in Westwood. I felt such empathy with Travis and Jane and the film’s mood.

Ebert said you do not cry unless a film frees itself from its origins and enters into your own heart. It’s true.

AC Only

Hugely underrated film

Just finished watching the movie version on Criterion. Just brilliant; so I can only imagine how good is the original stage play.

Sharpie out ‘um’ and write in ‘an’?

This was yet another brilliant lead to new material from Backlisted. So appreciated. For anyone with access, in the US on Criterion Channel is the movie version of A Taste of Honey along with a 15 minute Shelagh Delaney interview.

From Orwell’s 1984:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Lights Out For The Trellises.

Growing up far away in Australia my friends and I were most aware of Steeleye Span and Lindisfarne

I grew up in the 60s, so Dr Who was a slightly haunting window into a different world. Its atmospherics were like being allowed by our parents to watch, say, Callan. After the first 5 or so doctors that quality seemed to go away but of course I also was moving on.

Simenon, Norman Lewis, Paul Theroux, Iris Murdoch, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Bukowski, Roberto Bolano, Jean Rhys, Patrick White

I would have thought Jean Rhys would be in yours

Why do these issues always dominate the news cycle?! It’s an election for mayor of NYC.

Pretty good quarter century

David Rosenberg has been so wrong so often about the economy and markets that I want to fade this view

Adding another layer of complexity to an already stunningly duplicative and opaque health care system. Anything but single payer healthcare which in every other developed economy delivers better life expectancy at half the GDP cost.

YouTube video by The Deep Screen Analysis "Your Emperor has returned..." In memory of John Hurt (1940 - 2017)

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Is Ralph Fiennes running it again? Hope so, he was great last time.

Awesome film 👍

YouTube video by Natsukashii It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

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Never been more relevant, sixty years on.

I’ve seen plenty of bad policy in my time but these guys - Ackman, Bessent, Navarro, Miran etc - are all either certifiably insane or making a good fist of pretending to be.

At times like this I occasionally hold my nose and enter the Fox News website. There are ten trivial and partisan ‘stories’ before tariffs are mentioned. And then it is … “Win-Win. Former Reagan economic adviser says world will prosper out of Trump tariffs’. MAGA base continues to get fed BS.

Well look the so-called tariff charged calculation is total BS.

Bangladesh for example gets a 37% rate not as a quid pro quo for tariffing the US but because some US firms take advantage of ultra cheap labor there to make stuff and sell it huge mark up in the US. So, what’s to negotiate?!

What a great sound. Not unlike The Go-Betweens?