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At 16 I drank cheap sherry Got plastered in the stations and swing parks Off my mother I stole some money Had a treat with a bottle of Martini So sick I couldn't walk or sit Since then I've not touched it I won't bore you with tales of being greedy I'm just into CB I'm into CB

So R. Totale dwells underground Away from sickly grind With ostrich head-dress Face a mess, covered in feathers Orange-red with blue-black lines That draped down to his chest Body are a tentacle mess And light blue plant-heads TV showed Sam Chippendale No conception of what he'd made The Arndale...

I hate the guts of Shakin' Stevens For what he has done The massacre of "Blue Christmas" On him I'd like to land one on

What’s the Jammer tune he’s played a couple times that has him listing areas of london that back him, and a Bounty Killer sample?

I am pleased this threadis now populated by Melville-esque characters - confidence men and lightning-rod men; self-inventors. I’d recommend The Lightng-Rod Man, it’s very short and simultaneously confusing and illuminating.

It takes Conrad and cinema snacks to bring me out of retirement

hello! I’ve been lurking lately.

I don’t know, I think they’re both set at the time they were written, and they were written around the same time (I think). The incident that Lord Jim is based on occurred in 1890 though, so maybe that’s set first.

Hello! They’re both narrated by Marlow and are about people being dicks on a steamship (well Lord Jim is about the fall out from being a dick on a steamship). Someone’s probably written a thesis about how sail is virtuous and steam is sinister in Conrad’s novels.

I think Lord Jim is a masterpiece (though he lets the ending get away from him), and only an ‘outsider’ could have written it - that obsession with the idea that ‘he was one of us, you know’ is (probably accidentally) extremely revealing. He was captivated by this idea of being an English...

Also, didn’t IdleRich’s brother start trolling on here by starting a thread about sticking lego up your arse? Maybe I’m misremembering.

I really liked swears and gek-opel

This is an excellent short story. Apparently he’s very well know in France, but has only ever had one collection translated into English https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/delaunay-the-broker

Related, I suspect, to loungecore. Dreadful really:

I semi-dispute this. Hangovers are psychedelic.

I don’t have much to add, except that I love A Bell is a Cup, and when I last tried to listen to chairs missing I pretty much hated it (other than Outdoor Miner, which I think is a beautiful song): wibbly voices, clever clever lyrics. It just seemed incredibly silly. I guess by the 80s everyone...

I think they released a 12" on Factory Records. Their sex pistols book was the first 'grown-up' book I ever read. I think FV lectures at Kingston Uni now - I periodically Google them because I find them a bit fascinating. I'd imagine Eden will be along in a moment with better insights. I'm...

I think Achebe on Conrad is relevant here, with reference to cruelty precluding greatness, and the expectation that authors transcend the era in which they live http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html

Gyrus is a nice guy. I'm reading Bruce Robinson's (he of Withnail and I) book about Jack the Ripper and the masons. It's occasionally obnoxious but a good anti establishment rant with the kind of i of control of language you'd expect