have you heard him "chimpin' the blues"? found the CD version in a charity shop years ago - it's a nice use of an hour

honestly would endorse

bad why

the prices were brutal (went with my parents, who paid - heard from multiple people who went with paying parents, lmao, dire) but the show he's doing is so good. very different venue to cardiff castle but the show is everything you would want it to be, phenomenally worth it if you can stretch

a photo of a robin on a thin branch

a copy of A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan.

walk before work this morning. saw a robin at very close range, interacted with a squirrel and made a pull from the free book box. not read Brautigan before. any opinions? thanks!

yeah absolutely, it's not ideal how much this need is left to religious organisations but at least the christians mean well

at least it's not a more outlandish religion, I suppose - reading London Falling at the minute and there's a passing reference to this (very wealthy) family potentially sending their son to a scientology rehab

this is the first of hers I've read! I'll have to carry on through the backlist

read The Palm House this evening, Gwendoline Riley - excellent way to have spent it

gy!be

rotten tomatoes brain - the score is high, the facts are sealed. hate to imagine a conversation with these people

every minute that Jim O'Rourke/Eiko Ishibashi gig isn't sold out is a risk to my budget

it's funny that you've highlighted specific lines because every line is bad. laudable consistency

just give helen dewitt a macarthur grant ffs

setting an alarm for 1am to wake up and check if a demented fascist has committed nuclear genocide. forgive me if I listen to love lockdown

the govt grandstanding on kanye west as it meekly enables a world-ending genocide is quintessentially keir starmer's labour

+ there's a concerning strain of conversation around fees that is essentially "should your teachers have debt, should your doctors have debt" - my worry being that only "worthy" courses will be sustained, others (e.g. all humanities) left to rot

i want to know how hard people search for posts to do this with

pop-up survey on the BFI website, 'How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the website?'

just seen this for the first time ever - are they listening??

hahaha

the separate calendars during festival are what get me. nightmare. bless www.repcinema.com for their service though, recommend if you're not on it

ty, this is a good endorsement!

earlier today, in cafe oto, I heard two separate people do two separate farts. thanks all!

this might be a question only I can answer, but: if you'd impulsively bought a Godspeed You! Black Emperor ticket and let the gig sell out before getting anyone to go with you, would you go alone or resell it?

i.e., has anyone seen GY!BE and would you recommend it for a "solo traveller"

just in case it comes out later and I want to say I knew it: reckon they've edited that new Harry Potter actor's performance with AI. something about how his face moves.

I am fundamentally doubtful of closed-source LLMs having usage that is good for individuals/society and sustainable as a business (every query costs OpenAI money, etc), but it's funny to compare them to a bunch of gadgets that are just branches off totally ubiquitous product classes

ah, lovely! I seem to remember my gf enjoying the John Higgs Blake biog, and I have a feeling she has a copy of the EP Thompson... ty!!

do you have favourite books about each/all because this is an overdue deep dive for me

fuck this 👍🏻

✅ little shop
✅ read some of my book
✅ had a sleep in the sunshine

declaring today a sunday. tomorrow can be saturday - if needed!