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I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.

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Love to you today, Katharina.

07.03.2026 12:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great film, isn’t it. Changed the focus in the novel from a homophobic hate crime to an antisemitic one, but that fitted the times perfectly (and it holds up so much better than Gentleman’s Agreement). #bobs

06.03.2026 21:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BBC Two - Simon & Garfunkel: Concert in Central Park Simon & Garfunkel's famous 1981 reunion concert to help restore New York's Central Park.

9pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR

Simon & Garfunkel: Concert in Central Park

On 19 September 1981, Simon & Garfunkel reunited for a free public concert on the Great Lawn of New York City's Central Park, drawing one of the largest ever audiences for a single concert.

06.03.2026 20:33 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Hahahahahaha you ridiculous fucking cunt

06.03.2026 20:59 👍 117 🔁 14 💬 13 📌 0

He's not gay, is the big takeaway.

06.03.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Heat Lightning! 🤗

06.03.2026 14:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Me watching old Dirk Bogarde films

06.03.2026 11:56 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Hmm

06.03.2026 10:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂

06.03.2026 10:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Philip Glass - The Complete Piano Etudes, but "Etudes" has been changed to "Wetudes" for a stupid joke

Philip Glass - The Complete Piano Etudes, but "Etudes" has been changed to "Wetudes" for a stupid joke

great album tbf

06.03.2026 10:50 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin, who have put The Piano (1993) in the surf.

Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin, who have put The Piano (1993) in the surf.

That’s better

06.03.2026 10:43 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Imagine how good he’d be with a nice wet piano.

06.03.2026 10:40 👍 136 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 0

Their position is insane, who the fuck are these people?!

06.03.2026 10:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

An intensely funny 10 minutes.

05.03.2026 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glad you caught it in time, I know what it’s like

05.03.2026 20:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, with MPB on this. Best TV series I’ve ever seen and it affects me more deeply than the book did. Also, the Anthony Blanche is sublime

05.03.2026 20:19 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To this day it makes me feel a bit sick that “boriswave open borders experiment” went from far-right talking point on hushed dark web forums to something senior cabinet ministers just take as fact.

05.03.2026 17:49 👍 43 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0

That’s fair

05.03.2026 15:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The House on Utopia Way (Paperback) | Stefan Mohamed The world is coming apart at the seams.Reality is relative. The concept of truth no longer applies. This is all wrong. And detective Johnny Orange is going to find out what's really going on - or lose...

it's World Book Day, so what are you waiting for? buy my book! celebrate World Book Day by buying my book! my weird cyberpunk existential detective odyssey featuring talking magpies, reality-warping jungle records, and Nazis getting dismembered by robots. hope school don't object to my son's costume

05.03.2026 14:31 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 2

Look i’m not buying it again, what am i going to do with all these copies

05.03.2026 14:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Israel Epstein - Wikipedia

They’re calling him “the least Googleable man of all time”

05.03.2026 13:46 👍 888 🔁 189 💬 0 📌 14

*Doctor looking at my X-Rays*
Doctor: Ah, this is exactly what I was afraid of.
Me: Oh my God, what?
Doctor: Skeletons.

04.03.2026 09:20 👍 243 🔁 72 💬 3 📌 1
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Me at your book launch

05.03.2026 11:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Always been so fascinated by this story but never seen it done justice, so this is the dream.

05.03.2026 11:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.”

My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less.

stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

05.03.2026 11:18 👍 90 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 3

What!!! This is so exciting.

05.03.2026 11:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Fascinated that Madonna - arguably 80s pop's greatest icon - doesn't appear in the decade's top 50 most streamed songs. (Cyndi Lauper has two.) Is she dropping off the cultural radar?

05.03.2026 08:27 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 22 📌 31

Oh that’s lovely though. We had a change of plan too. I got the tickets so I could take my Macca-mad auntie, then she couldn’t come, but it turned out to be special in a different way.

04.03.2026 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One worked in a wire mill in Derbyshire, and was a fireman on a steam train. The other fixed watches in the East End.

04.03.2026 23:02 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Same with Back Seat of My Car, even though the individual sections are dynamite. There’s also a sincerity in, say, Fool on the Hill that for all his later earnestness seemed to get lost as he leaned into pastiche.

04.03.2026 22:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0