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The run of albums from Bookends to Graceland is pretty amazing. Not for everyone on here but for the singer/songwriter writer genre, I reckon there him and Joni at the top. My personal favourite is Still Crazy - my dad bought it on tape when he got his first tape recorder, Bridge got played a...

New biog out by Hermione Lee. I’ve seen quite a few of his plays including Arcadia and have taught it too. When he gets it right the balance between heart and head is unlike any other recent dramatist. I see Sher in Travasties in the late 90s and it was one of the best things I’ve seen in the...

White Noise is good - I remember it being very funny too - something he appears to have erased from his writing over the years. Libra is excellent- it reads well next to American Tabloid by Elroy. Mao II is good - I always wonder what Pynchon made of it.

i'll be interested to see how Lux the Poet has aged - very much a fan of their work back in the dim and distant past and haven't even thought about them for ages. I'll have to fish them back off the shelf over the holidays.

I think what is interesting is how this story looked like it was going to peter out - no pics, no direct quotes from people at the party - and yet it’s gripped the public. My younger son works for LBC - he does producer work for them and he says that the public last week weren’t phoning in about...

Beyond parody at this stage. We need an actual photo from inside the party splashed on the front of the tabloids. Then let the swivelling shits deny it.

i got it wrong - it was coyote https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-joseph-beuys-locked-room-live-coyote

I’ve seen and like a lot of his stuff - the myth of his crash, the lard, the felt, his whole costume makes his whole art about performance- the time he locked himself away in a cage with a wolf. Shaman stuff all very transgressive at the time. Gnomic pronouncements and anti consumerist and...

as a friend pointed out - they had only been trying to score that goal for three seasons, eventually they would.

I was actually at that match and at roughly the same angle as the camera from behind - there was also an absolute screamer from City in the first half that everyone forgets about now.

No I haven’t. I’ll have to make a trip. I like her shell thing on Aldeburgh beach (or is it Southwold?)

I’m watching the documentary- it’s not really a Dissensus type thing I know but I find it fascinating - lots of people online have already pointed out how we watch Paul pull Get Back out of the ether. Lennon smacked out is not fun. There’s both the fun and the utter ball ache of being in the...

Bridget Riley. Maggie Hambling.

I love a bit of Henry Green - Loving is always cited as his masterpiece but I really like the one where he’s a fire warden in WWII - Caught - I think.

Bumped into this guy on my ride the other day - a marsh hawk - he works with it in the city, scaring pigeons away from office blocks etc.

Meredith Monk - Facing North - not merely wintery but positively arctic

Along other bits and pieces (all of Gwendoline Riley, Barbara Skeleton’s diaries, The Dance to the Music of Time and. TJ Clarke book on Manet and after) my main focus is the new Olga Tokarczuk Books of Jacob which is loosely based on the story of Jacob Frank who claimed himself the Messiah to a...

Sancho in particular- they spent a load of money on him then fuck him around because Ronaldo. It’s not like the way City slowly introduced Foden into the big time, reducing expectation until he was ready. Pep knows how to handle young talent - including taking Grealish down a peg or two when...

Mate is a big Utd fan and he’s been screaming for over nearly two years to get rid. He said the biggest problem was that run they went on after Christmas last year. If there had been fans in the ground during their previous slump he suggests the board would have had to take action. Now they’ve...

There was a great discussion of his new novel on locklisted last week- some lovely clips about his writing process which is to just kind of let it happen. He also said he doesn’t make anything up which I also liked.