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I am sorry to be missing it but I’m elsewhere and have already become ruinously drunk in Deptford once this week. Happy birthday Luka.

This is fair. I love that album.

Please, post the cover

Oh yeah, good one

Further to this, buying a plum from a vending machine sounds unlikely? And even if it was possible then, surely a mistake; I can’t see it being a pleasant plum.

He had an extraordinary mullet. I don’t know if this explains anything, but it can’t go unremarked on.

Have we had this?

My friend once slept in a bus shelter at the docks in Dover, in order to get a very early ferry. Before bedding down he was wandering around the desolate docks, trying to find something to eat. Eventually he saw someone, called out to him and asked ‘is there anywhere around here I could buy some...

Private Road. I’ve got a lot of time for Bronco Bullfrog, and I like Susan Penhaligon, but PR was pretty tedious. It did pick up a bit towards the end.

A piece on Burchill (not by me) https://benham.substack.com/p/mad-julie-the-writer?r=7yad3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

I once saw a guy actually wearing one of the ‘Adolf Hitler European Tour 1939-1945’ t-shirts you used to see for sale on Carnaby Street. when I was on holiday in Greece, I saw a t-shirt called ‘the happy fisherman’ with a cartoon of a guy standing waist-deep in water with a fishing Rod and...

I had a pro-heroin* t shirt when I was 16 or so. It was a montage of all those anti-smack campaign billboards from the 80s, with a jolly cartoon rabbit brandishing a syringe and tourniquet with the words ‘loser? Feels so good’ on it. I must have looked an utter berk but I rather wish I still had...

Anna Kavan’s Ice appears in I’m Thinking of Ending Things. I think they talk about it a bit too, but my attention really wandered in that film.

I like the horrible bullying tension; this is probably what living there at that time was like. I must rewatch Two Lane Blacktop

The shooting is in the first rank of westerns; maybe even the best one. iguana is rather odd, but basically good I think.

I predict that you will like both Blues Obituary and Thank Christ... has anyone ever established whether there’s any truth to the rumour that Kate Bush bought the equipment from Flowers or Romance to record Hounds of Love?

I vowed never to listen to Henry Cow but I listened to them the other day and they were not 100% good but were still quite good.

I’ve had loads of jobs for very minute lolly

Yeah it’s probably my favourite Fall song - Smith in Ray Davies mode.