Has become a mainstay for me; single best culinary aspect I’ve discovered since moving to North America from the UK

Just found it, thanks! Am a fan of that splendidly overwrought sort of acting too. The POV of the dark road spotted under headlights is tremendous, and find myself making a list of films with similar effects - so far only “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie”.

This is brilliant, thank you. Never knew it existed and it combines some beloved components: Fellini, Stamp, the Italian modernist take on psychedelia, then-new now-obsolete technology and long, mysterious journeys down European back roads at night.

I thought of some well-loved ones (British, mostly) - Chaucer, Capes, Hurst, Rush - then realised they might have loathed their parents.

How about Joff: on or off?

Your question has just reminded me that wonderful fact the ubuweb exists and a minute later I’m listening to Kathy Acker’s poetry, before flipping over to a bewildering Bertold Brecht film. More for listening/watching than reading, but a great spot to root for inspiration

A trite personal fact: I’ve had a detail from one of Auerbach’s London landscapes are my phone screensaver for years, something to let the eye’s brain return to as anchor.

Opening Robert Hughes’s book, this hits: “<you> write of paintings as objects of financial value or passive beauty. For painters they are source material: they teach and set standards.”

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You've inspired me to bring over from the other place and the PRF the avatar I've been leaning on for 17 years or so - salut. And I'll take it as my energy: brick and heart bouncing off the bone

I find basil hard to keep alive. Cutting off the dead bits today left a sorry few leaves. Whitefly is my nemesis. Well, laziness, actually!