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They run the gaff now, they’re not giving up their territory when lockdown is over. I’ve seen them running along the beach which I’ve never seen before. I’m used to their post 10pm ambles but now it’s anytime after about 4 - cheeky fuckers.

Love Berg.

I think it’s important to read the new stuff. You wouldn’t only listen to old music would you? The risk/reward balance is more skewed with new things and the guarantees of quality from old texts are seductive - they’ve hung around, they must be good, kind of thing. I’ve always been interested in...

I heard this version lone before i heard the original - it was on Night Flight to Venus, the first album I ever bought. I still prefer it to any other version i have ever heard

Comedy defending to give the Belgians the lead.

Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther?

I know the feeling. Partly why I finally committed to it and accepted it’d take a big chunk of reading time. It’s not like a 900 page Dickens that rattles by.

Musil’s Man Without Qualities - vol 1 700 pages of mitteleuropean fiction set just before the start of 1WW. It’s quite slow going but I’m appreciating its rather dilatory pace. I am enjoying it enough to have ordered the second volume - another 700+ page behemoth. I’m interleaving it with the...

This guy Nacho does these great pieces on Bowie - this one on Man Who Fell To Earth is probably his masterpiece. https://www.nachosvideos.com/db-is-tmwfte

I’ve been reading her book. Whilst not a page turner, it is pretty forensic on the beneficial effects of rewilding at all kinds of levels. It’s fascinating but also very depressing as the project is only one of a tiny handful and agribusinesses still determine what’s happening to most of the...

Have we had Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room?

Listening to them in their pomp in 72 - loving this London concert - the segue from Not Fade Away in to Going Down The Road and back into Fade Away has been a delight on a shitty Saturday afternoon

Interesting interview with him here: https://medium.com/the-scrawl/jonathan-meades-en-catamini-an-interview-from-the-scrawl-archive-ea11ab96563

My copy arrived today - it’s over 900 pages of ‘selected writings.’ Makes me wonder, what, if anything, didn’t make the selection. It took me a while to realise that the title is a reference to his first collection Peter Knows What Dick Likes

You can see Messi still having an effect when a new hotshot arrives to finish off moves but Ronaldo’s days are pretty much over - the nature of his game is so much more muscular and selfish. saw a great stat on Messi yesterday: 1,976 touches this season, of which 0 have come inside his own...

His selected writing has finally been published. Surprisingly it’s been put out by Unbounders, the crowd funding house.

Sheila B Devotion - I loved that track. My dad bought Night Fever and Chic albums when they came out and played them to death alongside Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes, Millie Jackson and Gladys Knight. He was a lot cooler than I gave him credit for. He also had a great LP which I think was from...

Quoted him the other day, these lines embedded in my memory for 30+ years - ‘no worse there is none...pitched past pitch of grief’ Then went back and read the whole poem, it’s so well wrought.

Test match didnt even get that far into the final session of day 2 - Bairstow should be made to swim home - shocking.

Ahh silly me. Getting caught up in the lad’s banter when I thought we were being sincere.