Colour photograph of Prince's face against a black background. He is wearing a black hat with a silver band and a suit jacket of a slightly lighter grey shade.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of #Prince, who joined the silent majority aged 57 on 21 April 2016. We’re marking the occasion by diving back into our extensive archive of writing on one of the greatest musicians ever...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Prince
For You (1978)
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Prince was still a teenager when he played every single instrument on his debut album.

I wrote a book called THE MONSTERS WE FEED. This is that book.

- dark fantasy noir with swords
- tragic pseudo-reliable protagonist
- quirky companions
- sorcerer serial killers
- violent corrupt underworld
- underground magick society
- a healthy dose of murder & betrayal

Yours for £1.2m

Garmin watch showing the phase of the moon in a waxing crescent of 21%

I see that everyones doing these photos of the moon.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Mind, body, spirit, space: Alien Embassy (1977) by Ian Watson A challenging novel of mysticism, power, and alien contact

I happened to finish Alien Embassy (1977) in the week that we learned Ian Watson has died. Here is my new essay on the novel, about astral projection and set in Tanzania, Miami, and Tibet.

Interesting read, thank you.

No Kölsch beer for Nazis

Runs like he's crowning and about to shit himself if he doesn't sit down quickly. 😂

Upto the 1893 #FPLhistory and that sweet little woman Lizzie Bordan was rightly confirmed innocent of a slight axe murdery thing.

Gabriel should have had a red there, why VAR didn't recommend? #MCIARS Arsenal with PGMOL in their pocket again 😂

Tell me about it 🙄

A half lit shot of you coming out of an underpass.

Choose your Czech pour slide at a talk

Nice, I went to a talk by their representatives in UK this week, at my local, enjoyable evening as they showed us all the different pours that's traditional, plus got free beer!

So glad I sold Virgil for a DGW player #fpl

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

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Ooh la de da!

Budejovicky Budvar Dark lager, handled glass with good head.

#PreRoastPrep #beersky

The Pipeworks
Budejovicky Budvar - Dark lager

Coode Street 721: On Ballard, biography and books

Jonathan and Gary discuss Nina Allan & Christopher Priest on J.G. Ballard, favorite books of the year so far, and more!

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Thanks for this, listened on my run today, good review of the Ballard/Priest/Allan book.
I'll check out some more of the pod I think, I certainly liked the sound of one of the other books they reviewed.

Wonderful

A blackbird on the allotment looking for food.

Someone's come for a late brunch within the soil I'm turning over.

Some picked pink rhubarb stems on a wooden chair.

First of the forced rhubarb this year. #allotment

Low tide portal

Another HUGE save from Petrović 👏

Akira OST poster.

'What an outstanding piece of cinema Akira is, its sources stretching from body horror to Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange leave stylistic and thematic fingerprints upon it.'

#Akira Revisited - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Went last night, amazing to see it on the big screen.

a cartoon drawing of a man riding a motorcycle in a futuristic city Alt: From the movie Akira, of a man riding a motorcycle in a futuristic city with light trails

Saw Akira last night on a massive screen and it was amazing, took my 19y son, explaining when this came out originally we had not seen anything like this before. #Akira #anime