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Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist. Cultivating the echo chamber since 2011.
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This is a question that haunts me

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Regardless of the size of the dog(s), they will somehow take up 70% of the surface area of a bed. This is known

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Tag yourself I’m “Aggressiv”

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Two years ago, my amazing big brother Niall walked the length of New Zealand to raise money to build an eye clinic in north-west Tanzania. This summer he's walking Lands End to John O'Groats to raise money to equip the clinic. His journey started this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT0A...

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This, from Dan Greene in The New Yorker, is really something. Unless she was literally on a leash, this is known as “three men and a woman”.

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Now playing: as others have noted, the closest thing to a Can album that Miles ever made. Compilation of offcuts? I honestly rate this higher than its parent albums most of the time

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One of my favourite books. Elizabeth Taylor is brilliant.

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I'm also proud to have written the sleeve notes. If you haven't yet discovered the treasures produced by @marktranmer.bsky.social and the late, lamented Roger Quigley (somewhere in the zone between The Durutti Column, The Smiths and Harold Budd) check out this outstandingly beautiful record.

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#NowReReading

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Yes, I have been reading some muted accounts. Why do you ask?

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I saw the *best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, dragging themselves through the Bluesky streets looking for an angry take, burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo of likes and engagement, hollow-eyed and high on their own opinion. And some of the worst tbf

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Paul Newman reading Margaret Drabble, I'm howling

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John Nash became well known for his work painted in watercolour during WW1; post-war he started painting in oils. His work owed much to French landscape painting; an evocative style with a sense of tight construction, as is evident in this painting of the Isle of Skye (1974)

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The life cycle of an 80s pop song. 1. Release. 2. 12 inch 3. Cover version 4. Re-release 5. Sample in rap song. 5. Sad emo version on movie soundtrack 6. Closing number in musical about band. 7. Performed on Jools Hootenanny by aged original singer. 8. Karaoke 6. DFS ad.

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For them what missed it! Three *UNKNOWN* Goon Show sketches found! Written by Galton and Simpson! And about to be performed for the first time in 71 years on Sunday! And yes - I AM INVOLVED IN THIS www.comedy.co.uk/radio/fyi/83...

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Great news! Amazing film.

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oh my god it's literally alien vs. predator

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O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

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i mean...

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Those disapproving ears!

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Alia Shawkat is 36. Time is running out and she has still not been cast as the lead in the *Maya Deren biopic. *I'm not being ageist. Deren was 26 when she revolutionised cinema with Meshes Of the Afternoon.

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The Japanese have mastered toilets. We should put them in charge of toilets for the whole planet.

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This made me smile, but the follow-up post caused an actual LOL

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The Millwall of cats.

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The cat they hate is back.

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Is ‘The Stone Martens That Brought Down CERN’ a) A lost Alan Garner novel. b) A side-long Mogwai instrumental. c) A new play by the Camden Theatre Improv Group. d) Other Clue: No, it is not a Fall lyric.

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Charlie Brown's unrelenting kindness in the face of constant disappointment is an example to us all.

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Out now, friends!

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#NowPlaying Last time I posted a UK Buddah pressing someone replied “The UK pressings sound like shit. You need them on Curtom.” Don’t be that person.

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