These New Puritans tonight: murky, defiant, romantic, rattling; still they dig emotion out of unlikely places. In a recent review @katefmkatefm.bsky.social wrote that they “weigh up man and machine, medieval and modern, pastoral and industrial, and decide to keep it all.” I think that nails it.
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Pls, PRs, I beg you, stop sending emails with enormous image files
Adding tequila to my electrolytes is my most Gemini trait
As an asthmatic I find Starburster deeply triggering
No greater feeling than exiting an overly air-conditioned freezing supermarket into the warm air
Enjoy it, our brief time. Soon enough it’ll be back to nine months of grey and the other team will be posting ‘thank the Lord, all semblance of cheer has vanished from the air again’.
I loved Blue Jean and its Italo disco-adjacent soundtrack
Tube station announcer just said, “there is no need to conjugate at one end of the platform”
Same old male faces reviewing Springsteen, I see. God forbid a young woman should ever write about him.
Aged well
Teenage girlhood lasts a lifetime. When you turn 13 you become a teenage girl for the rest of your life.
Last week I wrote about home and all that that means in London in 2025
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