The cover is a disaster tho. #notmypynchoncover

This book absolutely changed my life 15 years ago. And like all great loves, I let it go (sold it / loaned if / lost it). But unlike love, it's mass-produced, so happy to pay the fee and have another copy again!

Life advice from Jimmy Page is surely one of the circles of hell?

Reading Delillo's Underworld exposed me to so many curiosities of the 1950s & 60s. In particular, Lenny Bruce. It's like watching the absolute ur-text of alternative comedy. It's genuinely shocking and electrifying to hear today.

The obvious answer, but the correct one. '...Baby hit me one more time' by Britney Spears. We still haven't crawled out from the crater of that impact.

Map of Europe behind newsreader has shape of Belgium filled in with sea.

Hey, #SNLUK, why is Belgium the sea?

I don't think you even need to beat Palace. We are relegating ourselves

Wow, thought I had a pretty impressive Sinclair collection. I've never even heard of these

Oh I'll have to search that out again. I'm biased (live in Belgium) but I loved the mayonnaise tracts

I read it 2 years ago. I was really surprised at how good it was too. I preferred it to Mason & Dixon. I didn't think the prose was especially great tho (I'm re-reading GR & CoL49 this second) but it had a lot of character and the cosmic scope was intoxicating.

Bolaño lived here

Mark Fisher The Weird and the Eerie book cover.

Read an extract from Mark Fisher's book The Weird And The Eerie, where he gets to grips with 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar

#MarkFisher On Kubrick, Tarkovsky & Nolan - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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I've just been looking it up. I want to give it a spin proper for first listen-through. I was in a great record shop in Goes, NL three days ago I am certain would have had it. I'll tread the carpet in Ghent and see what turns up!

Completely ignorant to this, already converted after the first song. Thank you sir!

This was a great way to spend the day. Finally hit gold on Underworld and got some Mao 2 level prose

My girlfriend told me I should relax and I agreed, so I took Don Delillo with me to the wellness spa

Looking forward to speaking to Nina Allan at Argonaut about the new biography about J.G. Ballard written with her late husband, Christopher Priest on May 7th.

Had that book on my radar for a while, a shame I won't be able to make it. I'm sure it'll be special

There's a bar in the city library too.

Did they mention supporting Mando Diao though?

Picked this up while in Goes. Never heard Screamin Jay Hawkins. This shit rocks. I also enjoyed the liner notes on the back. Did everyone just write like this in the 1970s? It feels exhausting.

John Lawson Johnston (buried at West Norwood) made his fortune from his hugely successful ‘Johnston’s Fluid Beef’ renaming it with the more appealing name of ‘Bovril’, combining Bovine with Vril from the then popular novel ‘The Coming Race’. He lived at Kingswood House (‘Bovril Castle’) #Bovril

‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists who’re sick of the pressure to promote on social media From Stewart Lee in his wolf costume to Werner Herzog’s big steak sizzle-up, artists are now under huge duress to ‘chase the algorithm’ and reach audiences. Many of them are hitting burnout – and hitt...

As someone who (begrudgingly) turned the camera on themselves on insta this week for promo, I wanted to speak with artists - musicians, comics, writers, actors, gamers - to see how they are feeling about the pressures of making short form video content. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

That was a great read Daniel. I have no knowledge of this branch of things, so I really appreciated the human-led piece! Your / Lee's point about the worst ppl in the world owning communication reminded me of Will Self's Phone which for all its typical Self indulgences, was on the money

And as always you must remember, the common denominator is money. for all the shaking the stick Brit music fans do over public school kids bands, no one scene is more outrageously wealthy, well-connected, and LinkedIn as the NYC indie rock scene.

Which is also what Geese did too. Heritage.

The Geese "psyop" story reminds me of how they got NYC bands (Strokes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem) hyped in early 2000s by sending them on tour to the UK and inviting outlets (read: NME) to hype them up and then have their return tour in US mega-hyped up. Greatest city on earth baby

I looked the article up, that was a wonderful read John. I never connected the outsourcing of retail outlets to the mega-malls on the outskirts of the city to the death of the high street, that was great. Coming 15 years late to the party, I'm going to try and find Unearthing. Sounds wild.

Was going to say this. The difference between what is actually physically happening to your body / health vs. what you tell yourself is happening