Ian Walker
@fenlandgent.bsky.social
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
But this is the best thing in my ongoing deceit that art and culture will protect me from the horror.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
But this is the best thing in my ongoing deceit that art and culture will protect me from the horror.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, which is in the Huntington, near where I live.
So much C18th English mercantile arrogance, so much twisted proto-Romantic English sly subversion.
I’m feeling homesick.
Other things I’ve recently liked include:
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan (novel a fictitious meeting between Syd Barrett and EM Forster, in Cambridge, in 1968).
The Residence (Netflix).
Dept Q (Netflix, UK remake)
Catching up with Only Murders in the Building.
Nuremberg (film)
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan (novel a fictitious meeting between Syd Barrett and EM Forster, in Cambridge, in 1968).
The Residence (Netflix).
Dept Q (Netflix, UK remake)
Catching up with Only Murders in the Building.
Nuremberg (film)
I think this is good. A few chapters in & it has traced the modern edgelord neo-nazi bro twattery back to that turn of the century NY/Vice mag heroin and porn schitk. Also, a line is drawn in the ‘anything goes attention-economy’ from Paris Hilton & Kardashian to the current political debasement
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Other things I’ve recently liked include:
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan (novel a fictitious meeting between Syd Barrett and EM Forster, in Cambridge, in 1968).
The Residence (Netflix).
Dept Q (Netflix, UK remake)
Catching up with Only Murders in the Building.
Nuremberg (film)
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan (novel a fictitious meeting between Syd Barrett and EM Forster, in Cambridge, in 1968).
The Residence (Netflix).
Dept Q (Netflix, UK remake)
Catching up with Only Murders in the Building.
Nuremberg (film)
I think this is good. A few chapters in & it has traced the modern edgelord neo-nazi bro twattery back to that turn of the century NY/Vice mag heroin and porn schitk. Also, a line is drawn in the ‘anything goes attention-economy’ from Paris Hilton & Kardashian to the current political debasement
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I think this is good. A few chapters in & it has traced the modern edgelord neo-nazi bro twattery back to that turn of the century NY/Vice mag heroin and porn schitk. Also, a line is drawn in the ‘anything goes attention-economy’ from Paris Hilton & Kardashian to the current political debasement
For reasons I cannot quite fathom, but which instinctively feel like the correct path to follow as the Internet drags civilization into the abyss, I downloaded my Twitter history.
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
For reasons I cannot quite fathom, but which instinctively feel like the correct path to follow as the Internet drags civilization into the abyss, I downloaded my Twitter history.
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
This is a photo I took of Ely Cathedral in the spring of 2011
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I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Reasons why Americans voted for Trump, number 978.
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reasons why Americans voted for Trump, number 978.
Looks like I can’t go and see Cliff Richard in concert in Bournemouth because my wife has a meeting in San Francisco about about building a house on the Moon.
(This ridiculous sentence is totally true. Despite everything - not seeing Cliff, you thinking I’m a twat - I’m glad I can type it).
(This ridiculous sentence is totally true. Despite everything - not seeing Cliff, you thinking I’m a twat - I’m glad I can type it).
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Looks like I can’t go and see Cliff Richard in concert in Bournemouth because my wife has a meeting in San Francisco about about building a house on the Moon.
(This ridiculous sentence is totally true. Despite everything - not seeing Cliff, you thinking I’m a twat - I’m glad I can type it).
(This ridiculous sentence is totally true. Despite everything - not seeing Cliff, you thinking I’m a twat - I’m glad I can type it).
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Right let’s get this nap properly underway.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Right let’s get this nap properly underway.
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Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
This is what I'm working on next: fascism and the environment. Hoping to finish it before the world burns and/or the fascists take charge. Fingers crossed. Do ask me about it, if you're curious. www.thebookseller.com/rights/manch...
Manchester University Press signs Richard Smyth’s ‘vital’ book on fascism and the environment
Manchester University Press has acquired Richard Smyth’s Greenshirts, a new book that uncovers the "deep, often obscured entanglements between fascist ideologies and environmental thought" over the la...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today's themes: HP Lovecraft, quail hunting, National Front environmental policy, Umwelt, litter-picking, Depression-era union bashing, hydroelecttic dams. This is going to be a fucking amazing book, guys.
Y’day, I went to Langer’s, the famous Jewish deli in MacArthur Park. Opened in 1947, it feels other-worldly - MacArthur Park is a challenging neighbourhood. Where LA does hold on to its past, it is often by accident or with indifference - but this felt defiant.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Y’day, I went to Langer’s, the famous Jewish deli in MacArthur Park. Opened in 1947, it feels other-worldly - MacArthur Park is a challenging neighbourhood. Where LA does hold on to its past, it is often by accident or with indifference - but this felt defiant.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
I had pastrami on rye. It was good.
Ten quid for a Carpenters record. The horror, the horror.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ten quid for a Carpenters record. The horror, the horror.
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Approaching Lille c/o Eurostar. Grey clouds overhead. Black clouds over Belgium.
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Approaching Lille c/o Eurostar. Grey clouds overhead. Black clouds over Belgium.
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Well it's not quite Costa but it'll have to do.
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Well it's not quite Costa but it'll have to do.
Hot Turkey at the Elvis Room
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hot Turkey at the Elvis Room
Though unlike some, when I’m arsing about on social media because I am bored, I don’t try to undermine the rule of law and trash democratic norms.
Clearly, I’m very very bored
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Though unlike some, when I’m arsing about on social media because I am bored, I don’t try to undermine the rule of law and trash democratic norms.
Clearly, I’m very very bored
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Clearly, I’m very very bored
I’ll probably have the salmon en croûte. I’ll drive, you can get a spritzer.
I might have the Roquefort and olive bread starter as a dessert.
No, it was Sheena Easton, I think.
I might have the Roquefort and olive bread starter as a dessert.
No, it was Sheena Easton, I think.
Really enjoying this cassette. Smooth cover versions (lots of synths, lots of percussion) of various Bond themes by The London Studio Orchestra.
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’ll probably have the salmon en croûte. I’ll drive, you can get a spritzer.
I might have the Roquefort and olive bread starter as a dessert.
No, it was Sheena Easton, I think.
I might have the Roquefort and olive bread starter as a dessert.
No, it was Sheena Easton, I think.
Really enjoying this cassette. Smooth cover versions (lots of synths, lots of percussion) of various Bond themes by The London Studio Orchestra.
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Really enjoying this cassette. Smooth cover versions (lots of synths, lots of percussion) of various Bond themes by The London Studio Orchestra.
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
A half-empty waterfront bistro, English south coast, one Wednesday lunchtime, September 1991 - this would be playing, quietly, polishing the background
Call it false consciousness if you will, but there was nothing false about those delightful donuts.
This sovereign self went for the donuts
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Call it false consciousness if you will, but there was nothing false about those delightful donuts.
This sovereign self went for the donuts
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This sovereign self went for the donuts
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, learn about the greatest song you’ve probably never heard of, support the podcast.
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Clearlake, ‘I Want to Live in a Dream’.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness,
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness,
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
Another new 2nd hand tape. Enjoying this.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood were a strange & brilliant pop band: queer, scouse, ironic, shallow, apocalyptic, camp, performative, highly produced, messy, ridiculous, compelling.
Both mainstream and conceptual art.
Liverpool, Sex, Pop, War
Sky scraping dove
Frankie Goes To Hollywood were a strange & brilliant pop band: queer, scouse, ironic, shallow, apocalyptic, camp, performative, highly produced, messy, ridiculous, compelling.
Both mainstream and conceptual art.
Liverpool, Sex, Pop, War
Sky scraping dove
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Another new 2nd hand tape. Enjoying this.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood were a strange & brilliant pop band: queer, scouse, ironic, shallow, apocalyptic, camp, performative, highly produced, messy, ridiculous, compelling.
Both mainstream and conceptual art.
Liverpool, Sex, Pop, War
Sky scraping dove
Frankie Goes To Hollywood were a strange & brilliant pop band: queer, scouse, ironic, shallow, apocalyptic, camp, performative, highly produced, messy, ridiculous, compelling.
Both mainstream and conceptual art.
Liverpool, Sex, Pop, War
Sky scraping dove
I’m about to watch a film about Göring. Göring the Nazi, not the Sussex seaside hamlet Göring-by-Sea. I thïnk.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’m about to watch a film about Göring. Göring the Nazi, not the Sussex seaside hamlet Göring-by-Sea. I thïnk.