Ed Luker

got told at the house party that I’m being subtweeted

My 24-hour Caravaggio bender - Plaster Magazine 10 years ago, Ed Luker saw a Caravaggio in Rome and wept. Now he returns on a pilgrimage to see 32 paintings in one day

Read it here:

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I wrote about my 24 hour Caravaggio bender in Rome for Plaster

YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic Cabin Essence (Session Highlights And Stereo Backing Track)

I was listening to this earlier and it struck me how much of an influence Brian Wilson’s instrumental compositions must have been on Arthur Russell

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Why do the titles for this hyper-dramatic Schama TV series look like an early 2000s trance record?

RIP to a real one

We put on a poetry reading and raised £1k for Palestinian solidarity groups

he looks like he's gonna do it again

Is Larry still happy?

Ed Luker on Caspar Heinemann's show at Studio Voltaire, London. A show I really need to see. Caspar was always good & it will be great to see what form the art now takes. I haven't seen any since his degree show and am very curious about this area of material investigation.

wrote about Caspar Heinemann’s ‘Sod All’ at Studio Voltaire
for Plinth

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RIVET presents: Poetry Jamboree (for Palestine) A bank holiday Poetry Jamboree for Palestine – get in the lyric sunshine

RIVET presents Poetry Jamboree! Sunday 25th May — with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Rashed Aqrabawi, Rosie Stockton, Robert Kiely, Casper Kelly, Caitlin Hall, and James Goodwin 🌞 🧊

Click the link and buy a ticket 🍉

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Friend just described this as “lockdown 5 year anniversary weather“ 💀 ☠️ ⚔️ ✋🏻

Issue 2 of new film magazine Monochromator is shaping up to be a sharp one — and there’ll be an essay in there from me.

monochromatormagazine.com

I log in to Bluesky like an ageing hustler remembering the good old days. Taking a drag on my cigarette, I reminisce about my 2.5k Twitter followers, the past 10k+ likes, all the ease of days gone, and walk back out the door.

huge “we’re gonna make it” vibes with the London sunshine today after a week of pure grey — people look near delirious

Derek Jarman was writing this in 1989. Swap the clothes shops for American candy stores and Wingstops and how much of this has changed – and that line:

“How can you describe what has been lost to those who’ve never known different?”

Massive W for Andrea Long Chu

you also would’ve thought the fascists were losers in 1934 too — the point is a fundamentally cynical and mistrustful culture makes it hard to build solidarity

quite beautiful, in an era where earnestness is hard to do, that lots of the tributes are “David Lynch taught me that it was okay to be weird.”

A.I. could never reproduce the feeling of a David Lynch movie

Something very Lynchian about David Lynch dying from a smoking related illness in the immediate aftermath of wildfires in his Californian landscape. There’s an analogy, smoke / fire, a symbolic shape, but no firm correlation — a kind of poetic thought.

David Lynch (rest in peace): today i was thinking about the song fade into you by mazzy star from the year 1994.

Octavia E. Butler, the late-pioneering Black science fiction novelist who wrote about a wildfire from climate change starting on February 1, 2025, in her novel "Parable of the Sower," is buried in an Altadena cemetery. The cemetery caught fire, the LA Times reports.

Oh...

www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

went to BFI to see Visconti’s Ludwig and everyone booed the only advert before, shouting “rubbish” at James Cameron talking about the magic of cinema 🤣

Luke Roberts, Broken Voices — Sidecar On Anna Gréki.

"The poet listens intently, tries to bring the future closer while carrying the voices of the lost and martyred with her."

loved this by Luke Roberts on the poet Anna Gréki's Algeria, Capital: Algiers in @newleftreview.bsky.social

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It’s Gary Indian’s personal library that has been destroyed. His papers are still on the east coast, thankfully.

Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

I’ve just realised that Burroughs’s title is intended to also be read NUKED LAUNCH:

the vibes are off in the state of Denmark