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i read this one and didn't get much out of it. it was a while ago but from what i can remember it was that second tier of autofiction where she doesn't quite have the eye to pull it off. i've read quite a few like that. maybe its not technically autofiction actually but feels like part of the...

they fed him on human flesh - he was going on about that one night and then deleted it all

it was pretty rough to be honest. we were free camping. there were some amazing moments. cresting a hill and coming to a ridge over a valley. almost hallucinatory colours down below. cycling with no lights on a coast road after a couple of beers

i haven't. any good?

crete has a particular light no. that middle eastern thing. bright glistening colours. i spent a week cycling there, it was an incredibly bad choice, literally nonstop hills. dragging the bike uphill up dirt tracks. but mad colours. red earth, dark blue sky

yes! 100%! i'm taking a hamas flag to glastonbury

europe is a hard thing to get your head around. i don't know at what point people in the uk started to center italy and spain in thier conception of what europe is. but it's obvious that not many people are able to think of europe as a whole, and usually think about specific bits of it. i think...

the integration of italian food and drink into the uk is quite interesting i think. works across several axes but it's as big an influence as indian. maybe bigger. so much of what people cook at home is a version of italian food, maybe the biggest displacer of traditional uk food. jamie oliver...

amazing how no-one gives a shit anymore. everyone stopped paying attention after the ceasefire.

i think with warfare it's good that someone bothered to make it basically. the war on terror is in the past now. it's good that someone documents it. i got the impression that it's a film made for the americans that fought in it. there's a lot of them, those wars went on for a long time and...

good question. and i'm talking from my own perspective only, it's not like i'm systematically auditing these things. one thing i see is an adaptation to the lack of money left in movies. something like warfare isn't exactly made on a shoestring and isn't in the indie film zero budget world, but...

the principal affect of a lot of TV fiction is numbness from my experience. not always but it's formulated for that

yeah 100%. you can draw the through line between forms. but it's also obvious that forms have different capacities and do different things to us. what are the capacities of TikTok? on an affective level it's a completely different thing to a novel, it's undeniable

writer and audience is a single assemblage. there's no onus on anyone. you can say something about the affects and what literature as a form does to people in the long run and make a judgement from there. there's a lot to be said for literature as an empathy machine as compared to other forms...

even someone like brian molko or eddie vedder seems preferable in my eyes to james o brian or the diary of a CEO guy or emma stone, as something to be inspired by and to emulate. but that way of being i think can't last when everyone is living with the internet. the constituent parts have been...

STEM propaganda for sure but also the slow year by year dissipation of the idea that it's alright to go to university and spend a load of time on abstract things for fun, rather than as a form of training. the world is a bit harsher these days if you're not being given a load of money by your...

oh yeah but there are also moments shivering in a dark tent which are like staring into an abyss where you question every decision you've ever made, can't forget that

zero budget travelling is the best way really. or idk, what do i want to say. i guess i want to say that i did a lot of it and it was essentially brilliant. there's a reason pilgrimages have been a part of religious experience. sadhus and so on. the deprivation puts you in a different state of...

it's not so bad finding a park to sleep in. it's better if you happen to have a tent. i've had some profound, great times being totally exhausted and walking out of cities searching for somewhere to sleep. it was a good time to sing to yourself. and you can pretend you're kerouac.