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Des Barry: author of Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, Cressida's Bed @JonathanCape; Far South @serpentstail, Nonfiction @3ammagazine, Granta. Butoh Performer. Some poem and film links:
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TEMPLE LAMENT
Bereep-Bereep is the Indigenous name for Mount Cole. It translates as ‘wild’ in the language of the Beeripmo balug group of the Djab wurrung people.…
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Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
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A special #Noirvember themed missive on my Substack today. A few thoughts on my favourite German noir - and one of my favourite late film noirs generally - Helmut Kautner's 1961 film, BLACK GRAVEL.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...
Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema
I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel. It is without doubt my favourite German noir and ...
andrewnette.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Sam Shepard and the iconic ending of Paris, Texas:
The story of how 'Paris, Texas' almost ended differently
Wim Wenders' 1984 masterpiece 'Paris, Texas' could've ended differently if not for the director's pleas for Sam Shephard to help him finish the screenplay.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sam Shepard and the iconic ending of Paris, Texas:
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24 October 1945:
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
24 October 1945:
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
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Next week, Nov 19 at 6:30 pm EST, Amanda Rubin joins the Leo Baeck Institute for a free, in-person talk on Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, which collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism, examining the effects of authoritarianism on the unconscious mind. buff.ly/4uo26y9
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Next week, Nov 19 at 6:30 pm EST, Amanda Rubin joins the Leo Baeck Institute for a free, in-person talk on Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams, which collected the dreams of witnesses of the rise of Nazism, examining the effects of authoritarianism on the unconscious mind. buff.ly/4uo26y9
Good morning all...
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Good morning all...
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Happy celestial birthday to American actress, makeup artist, special effects designer, animator, and the artist responsible for the design of the Creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon, Milicent Patrick
November 11, 1915 – February 24, 1998
#filmsky #horrormovies
November 11, 1915 – February 24, 1998
#filmsky #horrormovies
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Happy celestial birthday to American actress, makeup artist, special effects designer, animator, and the artist responsible for the design of the Creature from Creature from the Black Lagoon, Milicent Patrick
November 11, 1915 – February 24, 1998
#filmsky #horrormovies
November 11, 1915 – February 24, 1998
#filmsky #horrormovies
John Cale with Charli xcx - House - pretty impressive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
John Cale with Charli xcx - House - pretty impressive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
John Cale with Charlie xcx - House - pretty impressive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
John Cale with Charlie xcx - House - pretty impressive
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...
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And a reminder of the great resource provided by his seminar transcripts
Gilles Deleuze | The Deleuze Seminars
Gilles Deleuze | The Deleuze Seminars
deleuze.cla.purdue.edu
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And a reminder of the great resource provided by his seminar transcripts
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My latest round-up of translated fiction is now online.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My latest round-up of translated fiction is now online.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Morning all...
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Morning all...
Hey @brianlibby.bsky.social and @valarie.bsky.social I've been watching more Yoshinao Satoh. Quite a few on YouTube. Here's another Sonata www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxf...
SONATA
YouTube video by よしながき
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November 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hey @brianlibby.bsky.social and @valarie.bsky.social I've been watching more Yoshinao Satoh. Quite a few on YouTube. Here's another Sonata www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxf...
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Excellent tribute article to the amazing Donna Jean Godchaux who has passed on at the age of 78...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime
Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she w...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Excellent tribute article to the amazing Donna Jean Godchaux who has passed on at the age of 78...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Agnieszka Nienartowicz, Immaculata (after William-Adolphe Bouguereau) (oil on canvas, 2020)
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Agnieszka Nienartowicz, Immaculata (after William-Adolphe Bouguereau) (oil on canvas, 2020)
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#AllSoulsDay 🕯️
People went about 'begging bread' on All Souls' Day.
This was the tradition of begging for bread for the souls of their departed relatives and friends.
The bread bestowed upon them was called 'Bara Ran' or 'Dole Bread' 🍞
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#Wales #History
People went about 'begging bread' on All Souls' Day.
This was the tradition of begging for bread for the souls of their departed relatives and friends.
The bread bestowed upon them was called 'Bara Ran' or 'Dole Bread' 🍞
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#Wales #History
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#AllSoulsDay 🕯️
People went about 'begging bread' on All Souls' Day.
This was the tradition of begging for bread for the souls of their departed relatives and friends.
The bread bestowed upon them was called 'Bara Ran' or 'Dole Bread' 🍞
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#Wales #History
People went about 'begging bread' on All Souls' Day.
This was the tradition of begging for bread for the souls of their departed relatives and friends.
The bread bestowed upon them was called 'Bara Ran' or 'Dole Bread' 🍞
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#Wales #History
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Halloween - be good to yourself - found sculpture
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Halloween - be good to yourself - found sculpture
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'What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches
And at night return again?'
(Longfellow/Art Santiago Caruso, contemporary)
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches
And at night return again?'
(Longfellow/Art Santiago Caruso, contemporary)
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
'What are ye, O pallid phantoms!
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches
And at night return again?'
(Longfellow/Art Santiago Caruso, contemporary)
That haunt my troubled brain?
That vanish when day approaches
And at night return again?'
(Longfellow/Art Santiago Caruso, contemporary)
Halloween - be good to yourself - found sculpture
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Halloween - be good to yourself - found sculpture
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Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is now available online. As usual, all articles are completely free to read:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
Articles by volume
Visit the post for more.
sites.cardiff.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is now available online. As usual, all articles are completely free to read:
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...
Blind Faith - Sea of Joy - Five minutes of extraordinary music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQX...
Blind Faith ☮ Sea of Joy
YouTube video by chasefukuoka61
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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Blind Faith - Sea of Joy - Five minutes of extraordinary music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZQX...
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Anyone who has ever wondered why people in the Society of Friends are known as Quakers can finally put their mind at rest. It’s 375 years to the day since the founder of the Society was up in court for interrupting a sermon... www.shipoffools.com/time-travel-...
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Anyone who has ever wondered why people in the Society of Friends are known as Quakers can finally put their mind at rest. It’s 375 years to the day since the founder of the Society was up in court for interrupting a sermon... www.shipoffools.com/time-travel-...
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Brian Eno on AI, art and what makes us human, The Ezra Klein Show, October 4, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...
Brian Eno on AI, Art and What Makes Us Human
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Brian Eno on AI, art and what makes us human, The Ezra Klein Show, October 4, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfYY...
A fine night of poetry last night at the Celtic Club in Brunswick to celebrate the 40th edition of UNUSUAL WORK edited by the inimitable TT O. Great readings and warm company on an evening of lashing rain... and a small but actual tornado in Melbourne's West...
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A fine night of poetry last night at the Celtic Club in Brunswick to celebrate the 40th edition of UNUSUAL WORK edited by the inimitable TT O. Great readings and warm company on an evening of lashing rain... and a small but actual tornado in Melbourne's West...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM