Angus Warburg
@amjwarburg.bsky.social
Cambridge English graduate. Writing, hopefully.
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Angus Warburg
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· Aug 27
Madison Cunningham: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Last night I discovered, purely by chance, the music of Madison Cunningham. I haven't been this in awe of an artist since I don't know when. If you haven't heard her moving song "Life According to Raechel" please please do so.
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
Johnny and Thom playing to each other last night was beautiful to see. #radiohead #O2
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Johnny and Thom playing to each other last night was beautiful to see. #radiohead #O2
I've written a short story, some poems and redrafted a short film in the past few weeks. If you're interested to learn more then do please click the Substack link below!
it do be happening
to write is to have written
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October 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I've written a short story, some poems and redrafted a short film in the past few weeks. If you're interested to learn more then do please click the Substack link below!
Last night I discovered, purely by chance, the music of Madison Cunningham. I haven't been this in awe of an artist since I don't know when. If you haven't heard her moving song "Life According to Raechel" please please do so.
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
Madison Cunningham: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Last night I discovered, purely by chance, the music of Madison Cunningham. I haven't been this in awe of an artist since I don't know when. If you haven't heard her moving song "Life According to Raechel" please please do so.
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
(Or for a bop, check out "Hospital".)
Both played in the vid below!
I was in north-west Wales with some dear friends over the past weekend and I've written about it here:
is a south stack alive?
adventuring in anglesey
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August 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I was in north-west Wales with some dear friends over the past weekend and I've written about it here:
I went on a long walk to celebrate being done with Finals. More specifically, I walked some of Offa's Dyke. Do click here if you're interested in my account of day one:
make me an offa i cannot refuse
a walk for the ages
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June 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I went on a long walk to celebrate being done with Finals. More specifically, I walked some of Offa's Dyke. Do click here if you're interested in my account of day one:
I've got one more exam and one more day till it's all done! I've written a little reflection on my recent experiences here, for anyone interested.
frontiers
ends in sight, beginnings at hand
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June 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've got one more exam and one more day till it's all done! I've written a little reflection on my recent experiences here, for anyone interested.
You know that feeling when you discover a new song that it feels like has been waiting for you forever?
That's Roo Panes' 'Tiger Stripe Sky' right now.
That's Roo Panes' 'Tiger Stripe Sky' right now.
June 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
You know that feeling when you discover a new song that it feels like has been waiting for you forever?
That's Roo Panes' 'Tiger Stripe Sky' right now.
That's Roo Panes' 'Tiger Stripe Sky' right now.
Somehow I have done 3/4 of my finals exams!
✅ Practical Criticism
✅ Tragedy
✅ Visual Culture
Just 'The Ethical Imagination' left. This means my reading material for the rest of the week consists of things like Augustine, Wittgenstein, Montaigne, Bacon and so on. Heavy but hopefully rewarding!
✅ Practical Criticism
✅ Tragedy
✅ Visual Culture
Just 'The Ethical Imagination' left. This means my reading material for the rest of the week consists of things like Augustine, Wittgenstein, Montaigne, Bacon and so on. Heavy but hopefully rewarding!
June 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Somehow I have done 3/4 of my finals exams!
✅ Practical Criticism
✅ Tragedy
✅ Visual Culture
Just 'The Ethical Imagination' left. This means my reading material for the rest of the week consists of things like Augustine, Wittgenstein, Montaigne, Bacon and so on. Heavy but hopefully rewarding!
✅ Practical Criticism
✅ Tragedy
✅ Visual Culture
Just 'The Ethical Imagination' left. This means my reading material for the rest of the week consists of things like Augustine, Wittgenstein, Montaigne, Bacon and so on. Heavy but hopefully rewarding!
Just listened to Fleet Foxes' 'Helplessness Blues' again.
I was feeling overwhelmed with my stresses and concerns, but they all lifted for a while thanks to the wonderful music.
It's an album with so much hope and joy and entirely without bombast. I try to carry it with me.
I was feeling overwhelmed with my stresses and concerns, but they all lifted for a while thanks to the wonderful music.
It's an album with so much hope and joy and entirely without bombast. I try to carry it with me.
May 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just listened to Fleet Foxes' 'Helplessness Blues' again.
I was feeling overwhelmed with my stresses and concerns, but they all lifted for a while thanks to the wonderful music.
It's an album with so much hope and joy and entirely without bombast. I try to carry it with me.
I was feeling overwhelmed with my stresses and concerns, but they all lifted for a while thanks to the wonderful music.
It's an album with so much hope and joy and entirely without bombast. I try to carry it with me.
Penultimate Cambridge supervision – we discussed how I would answer past paper questions for the Tragedy Paper in real time. Intense, but, actually, fun in the way the original interview for this place was. Seems strange to think that interview was nearly 6 years ago – I was a different person.
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Penultimate Cambridge supervision – we discussed how I would answer past paper questions for the Tragedy Paper in real time. Intense, but, actually, fun in the way the original interview for this place was. Seems strange to think that interview was nearly 6 years ago – I was a different person.
Reading Raymond Williams's 'Modern Tragedy' and it's a bit bewildering but also beautiful. He says that among the most influential medieval ideas about tragedy was that you have a choice 'whether you get on [the wheel of Fortune] at all'. It's like the best bits of English at school are coming back!
April 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reading Raymond Williams's 'Modern Tragedy' and it's a bit bewildering but also beautiful. He says that among the most influential medieval ideas about tragedy was that you have a choice 'whether you get on [the wheel of Fortune] at all'. It's like the best bits of English at school are coming back!
I want to learn more poetry by heart. There's no need to aim high, I'd just like to learn some gems. I have this one already – its mystery and its bliss.
April 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I want to learn more poetry by heart. There's no need to aim high, I'd just like to learn some gems. I have this one already – its mystery and its bliss.
Heading back to Cambridge for finals term tomorrow! It feels strange that five years have led to this, but hopefully I will get a chance to enjoy this one last push. If all goes to plan, I may even get to write a little on Beowulf in the tragedy paper...
April 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Heading back to Cambridge for finals term tomorrow! It feels strange that five years have led to this, but hopefully I will get a chance to enjoy this one last push. If all goes to plan, I may even get to write a little on Beowulf in the tragedy paper...
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 📚🎉 Show some love for your local indie today—either in person or online!
April 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 📚🎉 Show some love for your local indie today—either in person or online!
Hey hey, I have written about Bob Dylan.
It's partly in connection to 'A Complete Unknown', but mostly just because I'm a fan and have been for a long time. I'll never forget when the headmaster at my Primary School taught us 'Blowin' in the Wind'...
It's partly in connection to 'A Complete Unknown', but mostly just because I'm a fan and have been for a long time. I'll never forget when the headmaster at my Primary School taught us 'Blowin' in the Wind'...
dylan with this
while the springtime turned
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March 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hey hey, I have written about Bob Dylan.
It's partly in connection to 'A Complete Unknown', but mostly just because I'm a fan and have been for a long time. I'll never forget when the headmaster at my Primary School taught us 'Blowin' in the Wind'...
It's partly in connection to 'A Complete Unknown', but mostly just because I'm a fan and have been for a long time. I'll never forget when the headmaster at my Primary School taught us 'Blowin' in the Wind'...
So far this term at Cambridge, I have written about:
(1) Fanon/Butler on the importance of evaluating stories
(2) Marx/Arendt and how they might view Melville's Bartleby
(3) Montaigne/Bacon on the subject of sympathy
All for one paper and for the other...
(1 / 2)
(1) Fanon/Butler on the importance of evaluating stories
(2) Marx/Arendt and how they might view Melville's Bartleby
(3) Montaigne/Bacon on the subject of sympathy
All for one paper and for the other...
(1 / 2)
February 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So far this term at Cambridge, I have written about:
(1) Fanon/Butler on the importance of evaluating stories
(2) Marx/Arendt and how they might view Melville's Bartleby
(3) Montaigne/Bacon on the subject of sympathy
All for one paper and for the other...
(1 / 2)
(1) Fanon/Butler on the importance of evaluating stories
(2) Marx/Arendt and how they might view Melville's Bartleby
(3) Montaigne/Bacon on the subject of sympathy
All for one paper and for the other...
(1 / 2)
What links playing Pokémon as a child with theology and nostalgia? I don't answer these questions here, but I suppose I do ponder them...
the origins of purpose
trying to recapture pokémon's charm in adulthood
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February 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What links playing Pokémon as a child with theology and nostalgia? I don't answer these questions here, but I suppose I do ponder them...
So I saw 'A Real Pain' yesterday and thought it was excellent. In this post, I consider how it – and five other films – can influence our discussions (and perceptions?) of sociality.
Featuring some Sianne Ngai style analysis !
Featuring some Sianne Ngai style analysis !
sociality in the reel world
been thinking about films again
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January 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So I saw 'A Real Pain' yesterday and thought it was excellent. In this post, I consider how it – and five other films – can influence our discussions (and perceptions?) of sociality.
Featuring some Sianne Ngai style analysis !
Featuring some Sianne Ngai style analysis !
Am about to watch 'A Real Pain' and hoping to write about it once I've seen it. First time in the cinema in 2025, which is exciting! Sitting in the screening room with the lights up and there's only one other person here so far!
January 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Am about to watch 'A Real Pain' and hoping to write about it once I've seen it. First time in the cinema in 2025, which is exciting! Sitting in the screening room with the lights up and there's only one other person here so far!
I have written a short post about something I've been dwelling on recently: lost information. Part personal anecdote, part meditative essay, I suppose. I hope it's of some interest!
information deficit
who absorbs it all
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December 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I have written a short post about something I've been dwelling on recently: lost information. Part personal anecdote, part meditative essay, I suppose. I hope it's of some interest!
I have nearly finished Horatio Clare's book 'Heavy Light'. Today, I went for a walk and enjoyed it. This is a piece about these things.
clare squared
horatio and others
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December 14, 2024 at 6:24 PM
I have nearly finished Horatio Clare's book 'Heavy Light'. Today, I went for a walk and enjoyed it. This is a piece about these things.
Term over at Cambridge. My final supervision was conducted under the plane tree at Emmanuel. It was funny and freezing and everything you'd want a lesson to be.
I shall miss Michaelmas and hope that I have a good Lent. Bring on visual culture and ethical imagination!
I shall miss Michaelmas and hope that I have a good Lent. Bring on visual culture and ethical imagination!
December 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Term over at Cambridge. My final supervision was conducted under the plane tree at Emmanuel. It was funny and freezing and everything you'd want a lesson to be.
I shall miss Michaelmas and hope that I have a good Lent. Bring on visual culture and ethical imagination!
I shall miss Michaelmas and hope that I have a good Lent. Bring on visual culture and ethical imagination!