peter
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Looking for the Vendon Fleece
Marseille, where terraces life is all year round
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Marseille, where terraces life is all year round
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James Bond films are buffed up kids movies for middle-aged men who wear oversized watches and gilets, live with their mum after the divorce and own The Complete Top Gear on Blu-ray.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
James Bond films are buffed up kids movies for middle-aged men who wear oversized watches and gilets, live with their mum after the divorce and own The Complete Top Gear on Blu-ray.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden
Going thru a phase where, when I meditate, I come out completely mentally dispersed, distracted by anything, all over the place; when I stop meditation am 100% concentrated on what I am doing. Im posting this as a PSA, because the inverse is usually taken to be the case.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Going thru a phase where, when I meditate, I come out completely mentally dispersed, distracted by anything, all over the place; when I stop meditation am 100% concentrated on what I am doing. Im posting this as a PSA, because the inverse is usually taken to be the case.
Withnail and I was born, by Bruce Robinson's account, out of re reading diaries of day on day descriptions of baroque hangovers. Flann O Brien was good at hangovers. Kingsley Amis' celebrated description is seen, by hangover buffs, as the ne plus ultra. Whither the literary hangover in 2025?
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Withnail and I was born, by Bruce Robinson's account, out of re reading diaries of day on day descriptions of baroque hangovers. Flann O Brien was good at hangovers. Kingsley Amis' celebrated description is seen, by hangover buffs, as the ne plus ultra. Whither the literary hangover in 2025?
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Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
John Cale looks infinitely more handsome in his later years than ever he did as a young man.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
John Cale looks infinitely more handsome in his later years than ever he did as a young man.
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This is basically my household.
There is only Denis, Miss Parrott and me. We all get along very well. Miss Tomb is away, has been since January. I've been planting cabbages this past week.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is basically my household.
Just learnt that in 1942 the Italian army requistioned Leno Ventura to fight the Allies & against the France he had lived in for 16 years. So he quit Paris for Baracé, where he hid amongst the villagers. I didn't know that. One of that generation that brought that incredible depth to French cinema.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just learnt that in 1942 the Italian army requistioned Leno Ventura to fight the Allies & against the France he had lived in for 16 years. So he quit Paris for Baracé, where he hid amongst the villagers. I didn't know that. One of that generation that brought that incredible depth to French cinema.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm going to post this up again, Coz I re read it the other day and it really amused me, beautifully evoked atmosphere of the splendeurs et misères of being at the wrong end of literature. And it must strike some chords here🙃
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
Heavy Water
archive.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I'm going to post this up again, Coz I re read it the other day and it really amused me, beautifully evoked atmosphere of the splendeurs et misères of being at the wrong end of literature. And it must strike some chords here🙃
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
The one lyrical misstep in Lou Reed's Heroin is surely
- I'm gonna try to nullify my life
( Sometimes he says "negate.")
The lyrics are great, otherwise. But this is both too abstract and too on the nose. Has anyone, in a "self-destructive sprial" ever been so lucid and so consciously determined.
- I'm gonna try to nullify my life
( Sometimes he says "negate.")
The lyrics are great, otherwise. But this is both too abstract and too on the nose. Has anyone, in a "self-destructive sprial" ever been so lucid and so consciously determined.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The one lyrical misstep in Lou Reed's Heroin is surely
- I'm gonna try to nullify my life
( Sometimes he says "negate.")
The lyrics are great, otherwise. But this is both too abstract and too on the nose. Has anyone, in a "self-destructive sprial" ever been so lucid and so consciously determined.
- I'm gonna try to nullify my life
( Sometimes he says "negate.")
The lyrics are great, otherwise. But this is both too abstract and too on the nose. Has anyone, in a "self-destructive sprial" ever been so lucid and so consciously determined.
If I had to choose one thing that encapsulated the mid-90s it would be Spud's job interview in Trainspotting. Speeding his tits off, trying to fuck the whole thing up by appearing *too* enthusiastic for his low paid misery job. Trying to appear to be wanting it too much, in order not to get it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If I had to choose one thing that encapsulated the mid-90s it would be Spud's job interview in Trainspotting. Speeding his tits off, trying to fuck the whole thing up by appearing *too* enthusiastic for his low paid misery job. Trying to appear to be wanting it too much, in order not to get it.
Turning point?
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Turning point?
Waking up at 6, Lenin, Woolly House Socks, a dozen soft rock classics, Fat Chicks, a huge swathe of 1970s light entertainment, conducting my social life online,
Campari, disco, flip flops, cheese rather than pudding, men with facial hair, chilli sauce
What do you like now that 16 year old you would hate you for?
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Waking up at 6, Lenin, Woolly House Socks, a dozen soft rock classics, Fat Chicks, a huge swathe of 1970s light entertainment, conducting my social life online,
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Until I was 14, I thought that women were tired when pregnant because they had to concentrate on building the tricky bits of their baby's body. I always assumed that eyes would be really hard. 5 kids now. Very tiring. No idea how to build an eye.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Until I was 14, I thought that women were tired when pregnant because they had to concentrate on building the tricky bits of their baby's body. I always assumed that eyes would be really hard. 5 kids now. Very tiring. No idea how to build an eye.
83, 18 words! 268 pages! Finished the second draft of my novel👍😀 And am happy! Going to put it through another couple of drafts! It's based on notes, diary entries from about 30 years back. Working with the raw material of unprocessed experience, of who was, a mere slip of a lad, has been a blast.
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
83, 18 words! 268 pages! Finished the second draft of my novel👍😀 And am happy! Going to put it through another couple of drafts! It's based on notes, diary entries from about 30 years back. Working with the raw material of unprocessed experience, of who was, a mere slip of a lad, has been a blast.
"I Know Where I'm Gong!" (1975) A lively, stubborn, opionated, but deeply confused temporary typist leaves London for a holiday in Normandy, only to stumble across the farmhouse where lives the collective "Planet Gong." After a delicious vegetarian meal of local mushrooms...
I finally got round to watching Powell & Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) back in January, which I loved: great performances and the filmmaking is infused with such love for the medium. There’s a transition from top hat to train funnel which made me beam.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"I Know Where I'm Gong!" (1975) A lively, stubborn, opionated, but deeply confused temporary typist leaves London for a holiday in Normandy, only to stumble across the farmhouse where lives the collective "Planet Gong." After a delicious vegetarian meal of local mushrooms...
Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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I've seen Arthur Brown live, it was incredible, like listening to an Easter Island statue. Everybody in his band was about twelve
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I've seen Arthur Brown live, it was incredible, like listening to an Easter Island statue. Everybody in his band was about twelve
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A friend knew an accountant, one of whose client files was carefully labelled “Arthur Brown, Crazy World of”
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A friend knew an accountant, one of whose client files was carefully labelled “Arthur Brown, Crazy World of”
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I am a part of all that I have met;
Tennyson, Ulysses
Tennyson, Ulysses
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I am a part of all that I have met;
Tennyson, Ulysses
Tennyson, Ulysses
I don't think there is anyway you can overstate the importance of Nietzche's statement statement intent here. And I think, if you are involved in making something, a book, a film, theatre, you are either with him or not. It really is "which side are you on?"
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I don't think there is anyway you can overstate the importance of Nietzche's statement statement intent here. And I think, if you are involved in making something, a book, a film, theatre, you are either with him or not. It really is "which side are you on?"