Samuel Cox

Watching some Abel Ferrara

in zohran’s jon stewart interview he says he’s been using the ed koch quote in interviews "if you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. if you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist." and some kid shouted at him “12 out of 12 baby! take me away!”

YouTube video by SpaceOdyssee0 John Cale - Graham Greene

Also a reminder of this classic youtu.be/n_g_n_SxVgc?...

Did not expect a Chipping Sodbury mention in the new Thomas Pynchon. Hope he’s working on his West Country epic next

Excellent salve to Ronay’s piece last week. ‘You want concerted international action against Israel for its crimes in Gaza and elsewhere? Good luck with that when you can’t even get a few violent far-right football fans turned away at Birmingham Airport.’

A brand spanking new copy of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

Against all the odds, it arrived

It would appear that the Tristero cartel have sabotaged my Shadow Ticket pre-order. My paranoia is off the charts right now

a shocking - and actually quite terrifying - open dereliction of this government's responsibility to its own citizens

Bonnie Blue, absolutely run-of-the-mill pornstar name, but could also absolutely be a rousing Scots whaling song in the Roud folk song index

Happy Sunday 🍻

Ostensibly trying to do Pynchon in order (will be reading Shadow Ticket hot off the presses though)

Finished Gravity’s Rainbow today. Seeing One Battle After Another tonight. Haven’t yet read Vineland. I’ve planned this all wrong

Au Pays du Cocaine. You’re missing out on some great song names here!

Yeah don’t buy the Astral Weeks comparison. Will say though CW seems as fond as Van is of slightly bizarre vocal ticks, which I love

Islands of Men (track 5) definitely has some Heavy Metal DNA too, and that slight Tom Waitsian warble he does so well on Drinking Age

Geese really bring out the YouTube-comment “the kids are alright!” boomer in me. Getting Killed is a blast

US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

Yaxley Lennon is funded by US billionaire Robert Shillman who also backs James O’Keefe, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer and other far right figures. The apparent grassroots racist renaissance is astroturfed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Only shame was having to see the unite the kingdom freaks out and about

There’s also a table full of old Sight & Sound mags and it took a lot of willpower to stop myself at 3

London folk! Glue book fair at the ICA is on til 7pm tomorrow and well worth popping along to get, among other things, Bleet’s latest zine which features a short story by me

John Lennon - Power to the People boxset

'The ‘Free Angela’ sticker within this prohibitively expensive set, nestled amongst trading-card style Lennon collectables, epitomises something peculiar about the 21st C: the packaging up, sanitising, and selling of the past.'

#JohnLennon & the Gutting of 60s #Counterculture

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Wings already have two fairly comprehensive best-of compilations to their name (more if you include the likes of Pure McCartney). I do like the look of that t-shirt mind you

WINGS - 3LP Limited Edition Colour Collection + Wings Watercolour T-Sh - Paul McCartney This bundle includes Wings - 3LP Limited Edition Colour Collection and Wings Watercolour T-Shirt. Items are also available separately. 3LP Limited Edition Colour Collection: WINGS  is the ultimate ant...

Although what I was driving at is more nuanced than ‘boxsets, reissues, etc bad’ it’s quite funny that this has been announced the very same day the piece was published

Imagine There's no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture | The Quietus It was 1972, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had decided that the longer John Lennon remained in the United States, the greater the likelihood that civil society itself would collapse into anarchy. Unfounde...

An excellent Black Sky Thinking on why a new £££ box set devoted to John Lennon & Yoko Ono's years of "activism" is further evidence that the legacy of both the 60s and rapacious 80s are now forever intertwined #fuckinghippies

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Wrote about boxset tyranny, the (very) long 1980s, and the heroes and villains of the 60s/70s counterculture for the Quietus!

Correction: clearly not a still but a bts

No, you’re not mistaken, that IS a still from John Huston’s 1948 Bacall/Bogie classic Key Largo

Noods Radio | Viridian Vault | 04.09.25 Noods Radio show broadcast on 04.09.25 Tracklist : The Lijadu Sisters - Life's Gone Down Low The Upsetters - Evol Yenoh Ketty Lester - River of Salt The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Big Shot Ariel Pink's ...

Lijadu Sisters, Bonzo Dog Band, The Watersons und so weiter on this month’s radio hour

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Rylan’s cancellation couldn’t have been more badly timed