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As always, the non-visual aspect of life (in this case road safety) is neglected. I recall stepping in front of a Tesla in London when they first came out... 2003 maybe. Shocked me that I didn't hear anything. No warning. Sound is such a massive part of road awareness (which is why advice is to...

I'm told I'm good driver. I feel confident in my car. Switching between cars can take a little getting used to, especially when the gear leaver is in a different place. I passed on my 6th attempt. The test is arbitrary. Becoming a decent driver is more about the experience and sensibility of...

I've been grabbed by McCabe's Butcher Boy. I've a horrible feeling about this book. Very powerful and effective. Wow. Before that I read Pour Me by A. A. Gill. He's frustrating and fickle. At times he's laddish and a bore, and smug and pretentious and tries far too hard. He admits to...

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not very etherial, but minimal contagious sample and wonderful flow... reminds me of the Mike Loot track.... a story

Mike Zoot.... scratching maybe not calm Ronnie Foster sample in Madlib's Blue Note LP on Stones Throw

SpaceGhostPurrp stuff..... and another flute sample flauting it

Quasimoto - come on feet? Clammyclams

Swedish bunch veer this way at times

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I really enjoyed this years ago. It was massively successful. Give it a go!

Joel Lane traces via a number of Ligotti's stories a distinct thematic resonance with Bruno Schulz in his essay 'The Ruins of Reality', particularly in terms of the discombobulation and isolation of the protagonists as well as the vivid decay of ghetto (a word Ligotti uses a lot). In terms of...

I'm enjoying The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Myers (great heatwave book! File under heatwaves with The Go-Between etc... ) and That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry. @jenks Have you read any of Barry's work? I liked his previous collection, Dark Lies the Island, a great deal.

Does she do the voices like Dickens?

The acute world-view of some of Erskine's stories I'm not entirely comfortable with, I don't think there is a clear issue, and I'm probably looking for faults too much.... I just have some nagging reservations. I adored her stories at the time and now questions are coming back to me. Which is a...

Sweet Home - not yet. But I certainly will. By 'very closed' views I thought also of the first story 'Mathematics', a really powerful opener... but the ultra plain logic reminded me of Klara and the Sun (which is about second rate android). And as the foremost method of conjuring another's...

Edmund Gordon reviews Homesickness in London Review of Books Vol. 44 No. 15 · 4 August 2022. I've not opened mine yet as saving it for a journey. Curious to read Gordon's impression. @jenks - Erskine's stories really got under my skin. How do you feel about the embedded dialect of the...

@jenks have you read David Seabrook's All the Devils are Here? The first part concerns Margate and moves from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to the periods fascination with Egypt to Richard Dadd, a painter that travelled the East and returned with a form of sunstroke instigated psychosis and or...

I have probably said this before but L.P. Hartley was similar to Aickman insofar as really yearning for that nostalgic Edwardian England. "He deplored jazz and motorcycles and swans (which impeded his boating activities) and the working class. He fought a great deal with his servants (and...

The Go-Between is wonderful. The Losey film is brilliant too. It's a great heat-wave book isn't it? One long pathetic fallacy. The desire, the heat, the tragedy, the storm. But it's also a great novel about power - looking back and acknowledging exploitation of a child, and the very adult...