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Been hammering his stuff all day. Those harmonies with Nash. His 12 string playing with Garcia on PERRO

A good example of someone who managed to fuck off everyone who ever loved him - great docu on him where he is entirely honest about what a cunt he has been - quite brutal.

Not really sure how to take that comment - it's a as if someone from the high table has noticed a peasant can use a knife and fork.

it can get you like that, that album - of its type, it's perfect.

Not read it yet but the most recent biog of Donne has got a lot of good reviews. For a long time he was my favourite poet - his sense of the audacious was frankly thrilling. Now i find him a little brash - trying a little too hard to push the metaphysical conceit to its extreme. I still love...

I hoped someone would’ve put something up in recognition of him. I loved that stuff in the 80s and his solo albums stand up really well. I think the suggestion is sadly that Sakamoto is very unwell too

Just finished The Bear which I really enjoyed. Strong performances from the small cast. Smart script and some invention in how the story is told.

I saw the Wendell Pierce production of this at the Young Vic before it moved to the West End and then Broadway. It is one the very best things I’ve ever seen staged. I reckon we’ll over half the audience was crying by the end, the final half hour something seemed to happen in there, like a...

It’s gonna rain!

I like the etymology of supercilious supercilious (adj.) 1520s, "lofty with pride, haughtily contemptuous," from Latin superciliosus"haughty, arrogant," from supercilium "haughty demeanor, pride," literally "eyebrow" (via notion of raising the eyebrow to express haughtiness), from super...

It’s 124 books long and would take me an hour to type up.

I got told to fuck off when I put my list up last year, so I won’t bother this year… I didn’t overlap with yours @john eden except for the Elkin, which I really enjoyed.

Proust Lots of Dance to a Music of Time

This is a great montage of just how good he was

I’ve seen it described as a ‘feel bad’ story but really it’s a ‘written bad’ story. It doesn’t know what it wants to be - it could’ve been like a Brett Easton Ellis rich girl/ trust fund update or it could’ve been been some wry take on growing up with a couple of punks for parents, or a novel...

I’m about forty pages away from finishing. It feels like another affectless twenty something- that anhedonia thing. Goes all the way back to people Mary Gaitskill and AL Kennedy but now with a sprinkle of nepo money and glamour. Very flat writing which only works if you’ve got something gripping...

It’s partly why I’m re-reading his stuff - I thought I’d read the biog once I was properly refamiliar with his stuff. Really loving Vertigo - much more than I did the first time. Oh and I’ve got that pain book you goaded me into reading. It’s up to be read shortly.

Also - just how hard a professional hits a football.