Robert

I know it's the obvious one, but it really is:
"In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"

Delivery is on another level too.

Also one of the best phoned-in appearances of all time in Will Ferrell's Kicking & Screaming

RIP Robert Duvall. One of my all-time favourites. As everyone will rightly cover the huge roles, I want to mention my love of his performance in The Judge. It was so good that it made me want to reach-out to my own father and mend our hostile history, despite having none whatsoever

Looking for recommendations on writers in the vein of Don Delillo's New York novels (Mao II, Underworld, Cosmopolis) who creates characters who are indentations of the city they live within. Serious request despite how vague & pretentious this is

There's something to be said about an artist so clearly unsure-borderline-uncomfortable playing older songs (at that point Ziggy LP was 30 years old), compared to major artists now who would love to retire on the heat of a mediocre back catalogue. There's something about how we clamour for it too

We start strong.

Dark night of the scroll

Less beastie boys, more Priestie Boys

I just looked it up. I saw the 'First Communion' too. Clearly a lot I don't know! Thanks for the knowledge

I spent hours at the Picasso museum in Paris more than once, but I wouldn't have been able to pick that out. Not in a million years. It's kind of freaking me out.

I think there's somewhere nicely in the middle, the reconfiguration of the heart as urban environment and subsequent gentrification and protest

Turned 36 today. Treating myself to a few more pages of this before the day is done. I fear the day I run out of stuff to read concerning Kafka.

That was great. Only read Clandestinity, but I'm glad this interview brought up the sonority of his writing. That book reminded me of what Kafka said of Rossman in Amerika, that he feels "rising within him the song which reaches past the end of this song"

Happy publication day to the deep, dark, beautiful ride that is Keshed by Stu Hennigan.

We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.

Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.

3rd place runner up for Abattoir Blues / Lyre of Orpheus era Nick Cave lookalike competition

deathcrash Share New Single "NYC": Listen We’re getting awfully close to the release of Somersaults, the heavily anticipated new LP from British slowcore greats deathcrash. The South London combo teased their album with last fall’s “Triumph” ...

"NYC" is a rumbling, fuzzed-out five-minute slowcore tidal wave

"30, no career, it fucking worries me" must be the first singbackable lyric they've ever written right?

YouTube video by deathcrash deathcrash - NYC (Official Video)

deathcrash finally released the stand-out song from their huge new album. I didn't think a new song could mean the same thing to me as those of when I was younger. But this is burrowed deep within me
youtu.be/PuBQL40I0f8?...

Sod In Heaven, by MPTL Microplastics 16 track album

Good morning.

MPTL Microplastics providing some post-industrial zoomer Comus goblin folk. AOTY contender mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com/album/sod-in...

Can books be clickbait? Yes.

Oh nice. I reviewed their first album 5 years ago. Glad to know they're still going strong. I'll give it a listen

'sleepytime' is the best episode of anything I've seen in years. Find it and tell me I'm wrong

By the standards of anything, Bluey is at times sublimely beautiful. One of the few cultural products where I feel like 'we have got better at this'.

It always rains on Sunday! (Altho 1940s)

Padukgrad is the capital city of the imagination

Isnt this an extension of Alsop's M62 idea that Iain Sinclair explored in Ghost Milk?

Yeah, it must be some financial hedging nonsense. Just another small way the edge of the game has been smoothed

Oddly applicable to Happy Mondays 'Yes! please'

I'd recommend it to anyone, the first one too. Kinda Indiana Jones-y. It's on Disney + or Prime, can't remember which!