Robert
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(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash
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Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation
Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation
The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the Muziekfeest van het Jaar to find out
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
The proliferation of AI slop & brain rot feels like a strange derivation of post-modern culture, where the very is-ness of something is part of its appeal. Now, more than what is shown, it's what it's transmitted through (YouTube etc.) that is part of its appeal. Something like the phantom-modern.
December 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The proliferation of AI slop & brain rot feels like a strange derivation of post-modern culture, where the very is-ness of something is part of its appeal. Now, more than what is shown, it's what it's transmitted through (YouTube etc.) that is part of its appeal. Something like the phantom-modern.
Don Delillo novels:
Under-rated: Cosmopolis
Perfectly rated: Libra
Over-rated: White Noise
Under-rated: Cosmopolis
Perfectly rated: Libra
Over-rated: White Noise
December 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Don Delillo novels:
Under-rated: Cosmopolis
Perfectly rated: Libra
Over-rated: White Noise
Under-rated: Cosmopolis
Perfectly rated: Libra
Over-rated: White Noise
The fact that the guy playing Vecna was in a The Wonder Years / Madina Lake / Enter Shikari type thing ten years ago makes me love the Upside Down even more
December 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The fact that the guy playing Vecna was in a The Wonder Years / Madina Lake / Enter Shikari type thing ten years ago makes me love the Upside Down even more
Winter has truly begun
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Winter has truly begun
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I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.
Only one Shropshire sinkhole
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Only one Shropshire sinkhole
What's the best Bowie album opener? I'm drawn towards the intoxication and thump of 'Young Americans' at the moment, but I have been an advocate for the instant jubilation of 'Modern Love' in the past.
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What's the best Bowie album opener? I'm drawn towards the intoxication and thump of 'Young Americans' at the moment, but I have been an advocate for the instant jubilation of 'Modern Love' in the past.
I know Chris McCabe mostly for his astounding Magnificent Seven cemetries series, where he visits each of the seven grand Victorian London cemeteries to search for lost poets - but I forget he's an astounding poet in his own right. A beautiful Xmas-ish poem
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Poem of the week: Down on the canal on Christmas Day by Chris McCabe
A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I know Chris McCabe mostly for his astounding Magnificent Seven cemetries series, where he visits each of the seven grand Victorian London cemeteries to search for lost poets - but I forget he's an astounding poet in his own right. A beautiful Xmas-ish poem
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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'It feels like this group has been assembled by Lias as a reaction to the folly that followed the band during its Saoudi-Saoudi-Adamczewski era, and whilst that has its perks, it also has its pitfalls'
Fat White Family - Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
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Fat White Family - Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
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December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
'It feels like this group has been assembled by Lias as a reaction to the folly that followed the band during its Saoudi-Saoudi-Adamczewski era, and whilst that has its perks, it also has its pitfalls'
Fat White Family - Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
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Fat White Family - Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
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The union of all my pet obsessions. Jean Ray, the theft of the Just Judges panel, and Egyptian mythology. And booooy is it stupid and underwhelming
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The union of all my pet obsessions. Jean Ray, the theft of the Just Judges panel, and Egyptian mythology. And booooy is it stupid and underwhelming
I've never known less what I really think of a book nor a piece I wrote, but I've got some interesting feedback on it. So gonna bump this one up.
I'll also attach a quote from the book I loved: "Well, that’s poetry, I reply. It’s an arcane language. A riddle that is built from hidden points."
I'll also attach a quote from the book I loved: "Well, that’s poetry, I reply. It’s an arcane language. A riddle that is built from hidden points."
Author Michael Lentz and translator Max Lawton discuss the German cult novel Schattenfroh, a bizarre and troubling tome for our bizarre and troubling times, and its timely appearance in an English-language edition
Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
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Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
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December 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I've never known less what I really think of a book nor a piece I wrote, but I've got some interesting feedback on it. So gonna bump this one up.
I'll also attach a quote from the book I loved: "Well, that’s poetry, I reply. It’s an arcane language. A riddle that is built from hidden points."
I'll also attach a quote from the book I loved: "Well, that’s poetry, I reply. It’s an arcane language. A riddle that is built from hidden points."
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As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow
Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows
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Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows
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December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow
Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows
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Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on #EricBristow Darts Documentary, Arrows
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Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??
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My 17th annual tribute to the bands who broke up in the past year though it’s getting difficult to say which are really over. Some groups from last year’s montage already reunited, even if just for one night (hi METZ). One band in 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳’𝘴 video announced a gig while I was writing this caption. 🙃
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My 17th annual tribute to the bands who broke up in the past year though it’s getting difficult to say which are really over. Some groups from last year’s montage already reunited, even if just for one night (hi METZ). One band in 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳’𝘴 video announced a gig while I was writing this caption. 🙃
Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it looks absolutely demented
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it looks absolutely demented
I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'd give a lot to read Mark Fisher's thoughts on Stranger Things.
I've always placed King Krule in the tradition of British weird fiction writers, a bit further up the chain from Machen, Blackwood, Hope Hodgson. Just tapping into this slow unveiling of another world.
youtu.be/bWnK2t_FxrY?...
youtu.be/bWnK2t_FxrY?...
King Krule - Alone, Omen 3
YouTube video by King Krule
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I've always placed King Krule in the tradition of British weird fiction writers, a bit further up the chain from Machen, Blackwood, Hope Hodgson. Just tapping into this slow unveiling of another world.
youtu.be/bWnK2t_FxrY?...
youtu.be/bWnK2t_FxrY?...
Thought this was about 'tap-dancing guy', which I'm still not entirely sure wasn't a vivid recurrent hallucination I had every time I got on the Victoria Line 20 years ago
‘Kingsnake On The Underground’, Camden Town Tube Station (2008) by Ed Gray
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December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thought this was about 'tap-dancing guy', which I'm still not entirely sure wasn't a vivid recurrent hallucination I had every time I got on the Victoria Line 20 years ago
There's a children's illustrated version of Moby Dick that I'm reading my 4 year old daughter at the moment and I don't think she's quite appreciating the abyss of mortality and humanity that we dive into each night. Mostly because this re-telling exclusively focuses on what a whale is
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There's a children's illustrated version of Moby Dick that I'm reading my 4 year old daughter at the moment and I don't think she's quite appreciating the abyss of mortality and humanity that we dive into each night. Mostly because this re-telling exclusively focuses on what a whale is
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"Lazarus" was released as a download 10 years ago today---it feels both like the day before yesterday, and a lifetime ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PU...
Lazarus
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Lazarus" was released as a download 10 years ago today---it feels both like the day before yesterday, and a lifetime ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PU...
I was doing a chronological read through of Joseph McElroy up until maybe 3 years ago. Think I might pick it up again. I got the monster in the pack next.
December 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I was doing a chronological read through of Joseph McElroy up until maybe 3 years ago. Think I might pick it up again. I got the monster in the pack next.
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Mick Foley with more integrity than the entire WWE roster
December 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Mick Foley with more integrity than the entire WWE roster