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"Why do you want to dance?"

"Why do you want to live?"

Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) meets Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) in The Red Shoes (1948)

Oh wow! That’s wonderful. I’m so pleased for you 🩷

Justice for CMAT! (I’m sure she’ll get it by having a long and brilliant career)

For a long time it’s been the savvy position to say that these “midcentury misogynists” didn’t share the worldviews of their narrators and that any supposition that they did was pedestrian & embarrassing. But that view is, uh, challenged by thorough examination of these writers’ lives.

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

Frog and Toad sat close by the fire. They were scared. The teacups shook in their hands. They were having the shivers. It was a good, warm feeling.

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan. Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!! replies: 30 reblogs: 30,246 likes: 41,477

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

Overheard: “Proper autumn, innit. Leaves is bare gold.”

Such a lovely review :)

A ★★★★★ review of I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) I remember watching this the first time and being a bit baffled by it. It seemed weirdly theatrical, the Scotland unconvincing and clichéd, and I didn’t pick up on any chemistry between Wendy Hillier ...

I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol

Fawlty Towers (10th October 1975). A little bit of cheese going down the wrong way causes havoc for Mr Hutchinson (Bernard Cribbins).

The track list of Vic Mars’s beautiful The Land and the Garden LP on @claypipemusic.bsky.social reads like a poem that perfectly complements the music.

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

Doctor Who - City of Death (6th October 1979). "Ah, well. You're a beautiful woman ... probably".

That curious social media trend which I can only sum up as:

Me: Look at this amazing car.
You: Look at this horrible car crash

Me: I like this person from history.
You: He was a cunt.

Really needs to stop.

1/2

I actually cannot compute this!! the way they’re all so casual about it?! Incredible

RIP lovely Jilly Cooper, the only subject of a @backlisted.bsky.social episode to write us all thank you letters afterwards. ❤️

Honestly I think it’s simpler than that. Like most prolific songwriters on their 12th albums she’s (temporarily?) running out of gas lyrically. She’s not writing like she’s holding something back, she’s just fallen off

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Your first episode on this book is one of my favourite ever episodes. The second part has immediately become another. Really wonderful, thank you xx

All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook part 2

I bought a remaindered copy of All the Devils Are Here ('local interest') in 2005, recommended it to my editor at Penguin, who in turn recommended it to Rachel Cooke, who wrote about it and made a podcast with us, which led to it being republished, which led to this. open.spotify.com/episode/6ZlW...

The daily lives of the villagers who lived in Amberley, East Sussex became central to Edward Stott's work from 1887. His record of rural life focuses on everyday happenings rather than celebrations such as harvest festivals.

There’s lots I love about Twice (the 1914 scenes are incredible, the low key coda makes a nice change, some of the visuals are stunning, and it’s just great having more Capaldi), but the two-fingered salute to Hartnell, Lambert, Whitaker, and the entire era very nearly overshadows the good stuff.

‘Best of The Other Sides’ - released on Sep 26 (digital) and October 31 (vinyl and CD):

www.katebush.com/best-of-the-...

Was asked the other day what can we do in such dark times. Of course we should find ways of resisting and speaking out. But also gave my generic advice. When unsure what to do, do what you think has the most chance of bringing joy to yourself and others and/or being of lasting value.

Painting featuring a white woman in a white robe with hair tied up embracing a female child in blue in a dark interior, both subjects looking out towards the viewer

Self-portrait with Daughter (1789) by French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun #WomensArt

Doctor Who - The Tomb of the Cybermen: Part Three (16th September 1967). "Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. There's nobody in the universe can do what we're doing."

Lots of brown owls with bright yellow eyes are sitting on the branches of a stylized tree. Among them is one white fluffy owl with dark eyes.

Something for #OwlishMonday from Hiromi Nishizaka.
#artsky #JapaneseArt #owls