James Sykes

"Hello? It's my husband.. he's been having gay thoughts" #DoctorWho

David Lynch knew the essential secret of storytelling: you can do whatever the fuck you want as long as you’re also trying to solve a murder

I suspect this is because the “murder mystery” format as developed in Victorian fiction is an attempt to impose rational order on chaos, and so creates the illusion that someone is in control, that someone will fix this mess, even if everything except the murder mystery is batshit. It’s reassurance.

‘It can feel quite mysterious’: Alan Garner on writing, folklore and experiencing time slips in the Pennines At 90, the author reflects on his friendship with Alan Turing, quantum realities and how his grandfather inspired his latest book

“I don’t write set books. I keep coming back to the distinction between mysterious, which is OK, and mystical, which is not OK. The thing that ties all creativity together is not something that universities should analyse, but people should just accept as wonder.” www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"

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20/20

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19/20

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18/20

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17/20

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16/20

Cover of Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

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14/20

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13/20

both a blessing and a curse that they have probably already made the best episode with the best Doctor and will forever be trying to eclipse it #doctorwho

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12/20

Cover of Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

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11/20

Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.

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10/20

Flanked here by two other incredible books 👀📚

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9/20

Cover of The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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8/20

YouTube video by Doctor Who THE WAR GAMES in Colour - Trailer | Doctor Who

The War Games 💥 in COLOUR!!

Dec 23rd, BBC Four 📺

It’s been an unbelievable privilege to work on this, and it’s really REALLY going to blow your socks off!

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The cover of Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

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7/20

Could include so many others tbh. Also made me realise I love so many Tom Baker stories but not that many of his seasons overall? #DoctorWho

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6/20

I love it and have read it 3 times 😂 it's weird, mysterious, unsettling - the whole series is great!

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5/20

This is so difficult 😩 but I think it's:

me when I find the doctor who dvds at cex