sadmanbarty

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One of my bits of schtick is about how real London is the Palestinian Territories to gentrified London’s israel.

It’s all in these tiny little fragments that don’t connect to each other.

South east is like Gaza, the most cohesive and militant end of it. The drill lot are like hamas. Harlem Spartans even call their local “Gaza strip”.
 

version

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I have a completely fragmented and ignorant image of London based on two trips there in around 2002 and then years of whatever I've seen in fiction, the media, film and so on so it's just a sort of landscape of famous landmarks surrounding an incredibly vivid image of Stockwell skatepark as it was in the early 2000s.
 

luka

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Me and barty are crowdsourcing a train ticket for you then we're going to show you round. Totally spoil you. Get you a Mcdonalds. Take you on the London Eye.
 

version

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I'm picturing being trapped on the London Eye as the Joseph Cotten to yours and barty's Orson Welles.
 

luka

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Diogenes the Dog’s owner Sunny Hodge has recently returned from a road trip through Texas on the back of a Harley-Davidson, visiting vineyards that produce wines which have drawn a comparison to those from Portugal. It’s not the first time he has taken a journey like this to find offbeat winemakers and regions that he can add to his esoteric menu – and it certainly won’t be the last. Hodge opened the wine bar on a quiet street near Elephant and Castle station at the end of 2018. Flooded with light in the day and moodily lit by low-hanging lamps and candles in the evening, the two-storey space (which regularly hosts jazz nights in the basement) has exposed-brick walls neatly stacked with bottles and rustic wooden floors filled with bountiful foliage that gives it a simultaneously snug yet stylish atmosphere. It’s a vibe that is fitting for somewhere named after the Greek philosopher Diogenes the Cynic, who believed that all the artificial elements of society – money, power, fame and possessions – were incompatible with happiness. It was better instead, he thought, to live simply, in the present moment, and embrace what the natural world has to offer.

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For a bar specialising in wines, Diogenes the Dog has an edgy, streamlined menu – only new regions and old winemakers who are experimenting make the cut. On the continuously changing list, there might be an orange from the Czech Republic; a citrusy white from Texas; red from the Shanxi region in northern China; or wine from Champagne that is not, in fact, Champagne. Because the offerings are typically underrepresented in the UK, ordering glasses rather than bottles is highly encouraged and, with most staff being trained sommeliers, guests will be given a full background on each one. While the service is polished, the price point is reasonable – it’s Elephant and Castle not Mayfair, after all – and Hodge really wants to share his unusual findings with the world without putting people off.
 

Pandiculate

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woops

is not like other people
if it happens it'll defintely be the irony that did it
or the corona - now we still have the rents but not much space for the interesting things to happen. all the electronic musicians are sound artists now and have been for ages, all the venues have shut or moved to rooftops, in fact this is a recurring theme on dissensus
 

version

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Just got this in my YouTube recommendations. Can't be arsed to watch it, but someone might find it interesting.

 

martin

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Just got this in my YouTube recommendations. Can't be arsed to watch it, but someone might find it interesting.

I saw that but can't remember much except him screaming abuse at people from a tour bus. Prefer the one with Paul Cook and Steve Jones going around their old haunts, eating pie and mash and getting thrown out of a tube station.
 

borzoi

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i just read from hell and it got me feeling better about this. if a city's history is actually inescapably etched into its soil and architecture and all these nodes of occult power that help to create the conditions that unfold within, suddenly it feels less consequential that the rents are too high and all the good bars have closed. ofc it doesn't make it any better for real concerns in the short term but it makes me feel like theres a bulwark against the encroaching archons of capitalism & conformity etc etc. you can feel it in san francisco too. totally gutted by big tech but w/ pockets of weirdness and light which persist in the bars and bookstores and on the beach and when the light catches the hills right and whatnot.
 

borzoi

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having to come to terms with the fact that i was probably born in the slightly wrong time period to live in some bohemian enclave or be present at the birth of some world shifting form of art was a bummer at the time but at the end of the day also not that big a deal.
 

borzoi

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i've had it on my shelf for a while but someone told me to watch the stan brakhage autopsy movie before i read it and i haven't found myself in the mood lol.
 

borzoi

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i haven't had the chance to see it at a screening or anything, i have to imagine it loses a lot when you pull up dog star man on youtube next to all your recipe tabs and emails and your phone buzzes 10 minutes in.
 
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