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I think they put a regional block on using it v. recentiy. I might be wrong but I tried for DE & FR and it said it wouldn't deliver to Belgium anymore. Hopefully I'm wrong or doesn't extend to NL.

Yeah, you could say I'm a bit of a music writer

Yeah I was a big hater, but he kept telling me to give it another go. It'll never be my go-to, but it has its place. If you ever come across any of his beers, defo have a look, they're some of my favourites

Stroom Colorado Raspberry Sour 0.5% 33cl

My friends brewery in Ghent does a really nice low alcohol raspberry sour. They sell it here and there in Delhaize's (not sure as far out as Antwerp). But that's it if you ever come across, it's a good one: Stroom Colorado Raspberry Sour 0.5% 33cl | De Hopduvel share.google/HAmaMPtu8YgQ...

Is it like widely acknowledged that LRB is on one of the most absurd run of high quality publications of recent times? Just every issue is front to back interesting / essential / insightful reading. Get a sub for sure, prices are now criminally low

Didn't even realise my subscription had lapsed. But you got me for another year at least. Bargain!

Yearly pilgrimage to see, for my money, the most beautiful artwork ever realised. Seen it countless times but got a there early this time to see it with its panels closed, as would have been the case 95% of the time in the middle ages. Stunning.

Yeah his mum is a New York Times bestselling author with a memoir about her open marriage. Which again, you can't tell me you can't hear

And when I say the beautiful sound, I mean almost chord for chord the nostalgia VU mainlining morose sanguinary of "Au Pays du Cocaine". It's like they're born with a silver spoon that has the sheet music for that type of song engraved on it

I like the record, I think you can scroll back thru my timeline to see, doesn't mean it doesn't feel like a re-occuring event haha. Strokes blowing up / dot.con crash, Vampire weekend siundtracking 2008 financial collapse, we were due Geese and the mass inflated AI stock sell off.

Ah yes, Geese, the beautiful sound of the privately educated New York indie scene re-blossoming around the dawn of a new financial collapse

Always looking for the Cal bylines on the list, I call those Calbums

...one instance it was a couple days after I was in London doing that Sinclair piece and I had a quote of his, "nothing is coincidence, but confirmation" written in my notebook that I was looking at while she was in hospital (it was nothing very bad, just concerning enough to land in hospital)

On the day you release the AOTY list? Ouchy! To balance this out, whenever my daughter has something serious, I always just happen to be home. The three times she has been hospitalised all came a week or in some cases a day after I came back from a trip. I find that incredibly odd...

Right plaice, right twime

Out of all tracks on Bowie's 'the next day', 'if you can see me' is the track that most paves way for ★; a loose bridging of Earthlings' screeching accelerationism and Young Americans confused porousness. Yet, can't think of a song I remembered less on first go. What a gamble by Bowie on that sound

...Let alone the letters, the book on Moby Dick, all the other poems, the works on the Mayans. I'm the same, I've read The Kingfishers and I'm this far into the Maximus Poems despite having it for years and telling Iain Sinclair I would read it after chatting with him like 8 months ago

YouTube video by generoix Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]' (Mar 1966)

No-one read poems like Olson: youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...

The microgenres of (internet) hip hop that inform this record are genuinely astonishing. I knew almost zero of them beforehand, but working backwards I've found a lot of artists that are doing really interesting stuff outside of my 30-something existence

Happy this one got a vinyl release. My favourite album of 2025. UK rap has always been good, but I can't remember the last time something genuinely exciting was happening. This is that record.

One of the truly great and bizarre non-fiction books in existence.

Nice, I'll give a go at De Slegte and see what they say. Thanks!

This completely passed me by and sounds entirely like my thing. Do you know if it's stocked anywhere in Belgium?

To be fair to her, if you do fuck up that lines then it's game over.

Kurt Vonnegut novels.
Underrated: Bluebeard
Perfectly rated: Slaughterhouse 5
Overrated: Breakfast of Champions

In a world of mediocre things that are popular, Stranger Things is very good.

Is this what the old 'brings cigarettes back from Belgium for cheap' mate has pivoted to?

Don't know him! Going to check him out. Been reading the Ipcress File by Len Deighton. Proper spy shit

I've only read a few books whose sole objective appears to be 'every single sentence needs to be revelatory'. Ulysses, Lolita, and Under The Volcano stand out most. Reading Permanent Earthquake by Evan Dara, it feels like a similar objective,maybe not execution - but Jesus it's unrelenting.