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Col Bond
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Music, books, nature. Walks like a jerk, but he could eat you with a fork and a spoon. Judgy introvert. Bespoke librarian. Wales.
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If you see this post a concert picture you took this year

Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla synthesiser
22 September
Hidden Notes Festival in Stroud
It’s a Buchla synth. There’s a lot of wires and they look very very cool.
December 31, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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No cheating: your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist.

I’m just gonna check out now, shall I?
This is a picture of the comedian Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, a fictional journalist and television presenter on British TV. Cunk is pictured wearing her signature plaid coat, blazer and a blouse that looks a bit too big for her. She is a white woman with a serious expression and auburn hair. She stares at the viewer with like loads of gravitas and that. In actuality, Cunk asks loads of stupid questions to comic effect, and always misunderstands anything she’s been told, which means that she would therefore be hilariously unsuitable as a psychotherapist
December 17, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 12
An old Penguin paperback cover of Iris Murdoch’s novel A Severed Head which shows a stark black and white image of a very cool looking woman, her big eyes heavy with mascara, brandishing a katana. She’s wearing a black coat with four buttons and a white scarf. The background is brown. It’s very sixties and very cool. Swords are cool yeah?
November 22, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history
#filmsky
The picture shows the actor Harrison Ford in the role of Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. He’s standing in front of some neon lights with dead eyes like a psycho probably thinking about shooting some replicants in the back.
November 21, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 11
The cover of the science fiction novel Triton by Samuel R Delany. It shows a battle being fought by advanced spaceships. One of them is firing its lasers and below it another ship is exploding a blaze of fire. Pew-pew! Pew-pew!
November 20, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 10
It’s the cover of the non-fiction book The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell. It’s a photo of a humpback Whale and her calf just floating serenely in the ocean
November 18, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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Post 3 cult books everyone should read:

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

Mr Wakefield’s Crusade by Bernice Rubens

Berg by Ann Quin
November 17, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 9
The cover of the nonfiction book Otter Country: in search of the wild otter by Miriam Darlington. It’s an illustration by Kelly Dyson of an otter peering out of the clear blue-green water of a lake. She’s done the picture all in blocks of green like an old style print. The trees on the edge of the bank are reflected in the water around the otter and you can see the animals body and legs through the water.
November 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 8
The cover of Never Let Me Go, a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s a faint and blurry outline of a young woman or girl in a blue dress. She looks like she might be dancing or playing a game. Her dark hair is in a bob, her head is turned away. The background is a very warm ochre which suits the blue very well but it’s all so faint and blurry it could be considered abstract, like a half-recalled memory.
November 15, 2024 at 11:10 AM
colinbond.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 7
November 14, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 6
The cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. It’s a painting by the French neoclassical artist Jaques-Louis David which portrays a wan looking seated lady dressed in a diaphanous white frock. She looks unhappy and a bit seedy.
November 8, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 5
The cover of The Lark Ascending by Richard King. It’s a bit abstract - a stripe of green against a black background indicates the British countryside. A row of multicoloured larks fly in a diagonal row across the stripe. It’s very cool and fuss free.
November 7, 2024 at 3:25 PM
colinbond.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 4
The cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. It shows the author’s own drawings of the book’s main antagonist, Steerpike, and his erstwhile mentor, Barquentine - Gormenghast Castle’s Master of Ritual. Steerpike is cadaverous young man with beady, penetrating eyes, clearly waiting for the chance to do something very horrible while Barquentine is grotesquely wizened and unkempt and glares at us angrily.
November 4, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 3
November 2, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 2
November 1, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge

Day 1
The Penguin Modern Classics cover of Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka. The illustration shows a creature with a round head and a round body composed of what might be trypescript or feathers or bandages it’s hard to tell. It has a claw
October 31, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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I remember when this was all furries
September 18, 2024 at 12:13 PM
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I reviewed Steve Spithray's excellent How to Build Your Own Record Pressing Plant, the true story of Press On Vinyl for God is in the TV

An insider view of an area of the music industry that usually keeps itself out of the limelight. Recommended

www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2023/11/01/b...
November 7, 2023 at 3:30 PM
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Well, this was a convoluted and depraved cesspit of murder, disaster and vanity. Loved it
The cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona showing a dead sheep on a black background
August 7, 2023 at 10:07 PM