Chris Bateman
@cbateman82.bsky.social
"We've all had too much sorrow, now is the time for joy." Occasional writer about books and music. MD ANT
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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
February 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Love rugby, love @mogwai.scot. BBC Scotland rugby montage with Satan playing just wasn't right though.
February 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Love rugby, love @mogwai.scot. BBC Scotland rugby montage with Satan playing just wasn't right though.
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New Order - Ceremony (Promo 1981)
January 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New Order - Ceremony (Promo 1981)
I know I am years late to this but the Press Reader app with access from your local library is an utter revelation. Get on it if you haven't already done so
January 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I know I am years late to this but the Press Reader app with access from your local library is an utter revelation. Get on it if you haven't already done so
Velvets and an Almanac making for some peace before things get busy again tomorrow.
January 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Velvets and an Almanac making for some peace before things get busy again tomorrow.
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AOTY 2024:
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Kim Gordon - The Collective
5. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
6. Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
7. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Kim Gordon - The Collective
5. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
6. Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
7. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u
January 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
AOTY 2024:
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Kim Gordon - The Collective
5. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
6. Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
7. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Kim Gordon - The Collective
5. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
6. Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
7. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u
Wishing all you Blueskyers a peace and light and joy for the New Year with my favourite Liz Lochead poem.
for to even hope to prosper
this midnight must find us
How we would like to be
🔔🔔🔔
for to even hope to prosper
this midnight must find us
How we would like to be
🔔🔔🔔
December 31, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Wishing all you Blueskyers a peace and light and joy for the New Year with my favourite Liz Lochead poem.
for to even hope to prosper
this midnight must find us
How we would like to be
🔔🔔🔔
for to even hope to prosper
this midnight must find us
How we would like to be
🔔🔔🔔
Merry Christmas you lot 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Merry Christmas you lot 🎄
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I've been asked a lot recently about a piece I wrote on the book/social media phenomenon/legend that is Memorial Device & the #MDANT community, so I've put it up on a website I haven't used since 2016. It is now the first tab. Hope you like it danigaravelli.wordpress.com. @memorialdevice.bsky.social
Dani Garavelli
Visit the post for more.
danigaravelli.wordpress.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:39 PM
I've been asked a lot recently about a piece I wrote on the book/social media phenomenon/legend that is Memorial Device & the #MDANT community, so I've put it up on a website I haven't used since 2016. It is now the first tab. Hope you like it danigaravelli.wordpress.com. @memorialdevice.bsky.social
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Somebody's just bought Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is 10am
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Somebody's just bought Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is 10am
Keep thinking about our work Christmas party the other night. One of the admins (early 20s) asked me how I knew what Brat Summer was and then as I was leaving, the zip on my skinny jeans burst. I always thought ageing was a gradual process, not two events in a single evening.
a middle-aged friend of mine who runs his own company told me that his young gen-z employees staged an intervention like christopher moltisanti and told him he has to stop wearing slim fit pants
December 14, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Keep thinking about our work Christmas party the other night. One of the admins (early 20s) asked me how I knew what Brat Summer was and then as I was leaving, the zip on my skinny jeans burst. I always thought ageing was a gradual process, not two events in a single evening.
My folks gave me a solid grounding in music. Beatles, Stones, Dylan etc al and I am forever grateful. My big brother then took over with Mary Chain, Public Enemy Stone Roses and many more. My parents provided my undergrad, brother the Masters degree ✊
I hope to do the same for my lad.
I hope to do the same for my lad.
I got a question for yall. What’s your parents music taste like and did it have any impact on your own taste in music?
My pops is a big hip hop head, worked at one of the most popular rap labels of the late 90s, early 2000s. My mom was big on R&B and soul/funk music. It def shaped my taste
My pops is a big hip hop head, worked at one of the most popular rap labels of the late 90s, early 2000s. My mom was big on R&B and soul/funk music. It def shaped my taste
December 5, 2024 at 10:32 AM
My folks gave me a solid grounding in music. Beatles, Stones, Dylan etc al and I am forever grateful. My big brother then took over with Mary Chain, Public Enemy Stone Roses and many more. My parents provided my undergrad, brother the Masters degree ✊
I hope to do the same for my lad.
I hope to do the same for my lad.
Just gorgeous as always from Anne.
December 4, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Just gorgeous as always from Anne.
Dani getting right to the heart of the matter again. I work in Glasgow, benefit from its amenities yet here I am in East Ren contributing nothing to my city. The article also offers some interesting solutions. An important piece this one.
I belong to Glasgow. But do I really? My piece for @glasgowbell.bsky.social about the guilt of living just over the East Renfrewshire boundary, and paying nothing towards the city's upkeep, something I've been musing on for a long time. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/should-glasg...
Should Glasgow's suburbs subsidise the city?
Play in Pollok Park, work in town; pay tax in East Ren.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
November 30, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Dani getting right to the heart of the matter again. I work in Glasgow, benefit from its amenities yet here I am in East Ren contributing nothing to my city. The article also offers some interesting solutions. An important piece this one.
The light as I left the uni tonight was something.
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
The light as I left the uni tonight was something.
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The great Algerian novelist, Boualem Sansal, whose novels I have had the privilege of translating, has “disappeared“ in his native Algeria, where his books are banned, and he has been a thorn the side of government. It seems he has been arrested, though no statement or charges have been released
Nobel prize winning authors demand release of novelist Boualem Sansal after arrest in Algiers
Four Nobel Prize in Literature-winners, as well as eminent authors including Salman Rushdie, Giuliano da Empoli and Boris Cyrulnik, have called for the immediate release of Franco-Algerian novelist Bo...
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The great Algerian novelist, Boualem Sansal, whose novels I have had the privilege of translating, has “disappeared“ in his native Algeria, where his books are banned, and he has been a thorn the side of government. It seems he has been arrested, though no statement or charges have been released
Very much enjoying connecting with all the @memorialdevice.bsky.social MDANT crew on here. Infinitely more pleasant place than Musk's sewer
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Very much enjoying connecting with all the @memorialdevice.bsky.social MDANT crew on here. Infinitely more pleasant place than Musk's sewer
Yass, No.27 has just arrived! First purchase from the mighty @weare1of100.bsky.social and I love it. The quality is incredible.
@memorialdevice.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social
#who?we.yes
@memorialdevice.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social
#who?we.yes
November 25, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Yass, No.27 has just arrived! First purchase from the mighty @weare1of100.bsky.social and I love it. The quality is incredible.
@memorialdevice.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social
#who?we.yes
@memorialdevice.bsky.social @reversediorama.bsky.social
#who?we.yes
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The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Gisèle Pelicot
November 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Gisèle Pelicot
Scott Hutchinson's birthday yesterday. This from Hanif Abdurraqib is just wonderful on him and his legacy. open.spotify.com/episode/4JIy...
November 21, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Scott Hutchinson's birthday yesterday. This from Hanif Abdurraqib is just wonderful on him and his legacy. open.spotify.com/episode/4JIy...
Delighted for this to be my first post on here. All hail King Keenan 👑🔥👑
This is #VOLCANICTONGUE
The first ever collection of @reversediorama.bsky.social's music writing and an extended love letter to the revolutionary music of the 20th century, with the best of his reviews, interviews and think pieces.
Cover design by Julian House.
27/3/25 geni.us/VolcanicTongue
The first ever collection of @reversediorama.bsky.social's music writing and an extended love letter to the revolutionary music of the 20th century, with the best of his reviews, interviews and think pieces.
Cover design by Julian House.
27/3/25 geni.us/VolcanicTongue
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Delighted for this to be my first post on here. All hail King Keenan 👑🔥👑