No need to apologise. All fine! Stay well!

79 years young 🔥🍾💥 and full of energy on stage

Happy birthday to James Newell Osterberg, aka Iggy Pop, the "Godfather of Punk," who was born today, 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan.

Photo: Jimmy Fontaine

#punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Komako was up early the next morning... In the mirror the mountains were red with autumn leaves and the autumn sun was bright. Kawabata Snow Country

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Currently reading The Snow Country. Beautiful translation by Edward G. Seidensticker. I posted a page from it yesterday. For something a little on the weirder side The House of Sleeping Beauties. Enjoy!

Patience is life: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni “We always say that the Mahri is the mirror of his rider. If you want to stare into the rider and see what lies hidden within, look to his mount, his thoroughbred. Now that I look at you more close…

"And while the waters of the vineyard spring may wash clean the body, only the desert can cleanse the soul."

ICYMI I wrote about a book that was sitting on my bookshelf far too long.

Patience is life: Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni roughghosts.com/2026/04/17/p...

Roll this out internationally.

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Book review: The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco Il nome della rosa was first published in 1980 Translation from the Italian by William Weaver Historical mystery 1994 552 pages Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Ro…

Book review: The Name of the Rose wordsandpeace.com/2026/04/20/b...

Join us this Wednesday the 22nd of April for the second night of our season focused on one of the most distinctive cinematic voices to emerge from Japan in the new millennium, Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

7:00pm – ASAKO I & II (2018)
9:15pm – THE DEPTHS (2010)

Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art

So what does listening mean to YOU? We can’t wait to see -and hear - your creative responses to the question. citiesandmemory.com/listening/

Thanks for the Mills family recommendation and the follow. Kes is an all time favourite, too.

Just after 2am, this passage from Kawabata's Snow Country blew me away...

Paul Newman as Billy the Kid clutching a hand gun an looking heavenward from the movie The Left Handed Gun.

... maybe the origin of my sympathy for outlaws. That and Arthur Penn's The Left-Handed Gun. I wanted to be left-handed after that and tried to convince everyone I was actually ambidextrous. Both shot in glorious black and white - one in working-class Lancashire and the other in the American West.

Still from the film Whistle Down the Wind with a very young Haley Mills leading a group of children to meet a criminal on the run she thinks is Jesus returned to Earth. An early acting appearance for Alan Bates.

Last night I watched Whistle Down the Wind. I saw it when it first came out in the cinema. It made a huge impression on me an erstwhile Catholic child. I was in total sympathy with the criminal on the run who the kids thought was Jesus returned to Earth. 7-yr-old me so wanted him to get away...

Christopher Isherwood’s passport photo in 1929 (when he first came to Berlin).

Read Wyndham Wallace on his Berlin Stories below…

www.slowtravelberlin.com/the-berlin-s...

Michael Winkler: Griefdogg Join us for a conversation about a new novel set in Mildura, written by Miles Franklin-shortlisted author Michael Winkler, interviewed by Donata Carrazza.

Taking Griefdogg to where it was written and set. Tell your Mallee mates! Raising bucks for the mighty Mildura Writers Festival.
events.humanitix.com/michael-wink...

Dreamt my mother stabbed me last night. So that’s excellent.

Sunday morning Bacon…Portrait of George Dyer riding a bicycle 1966.

Center for the Art of Translation: A Literary Community Hub in San Francisco YouTube video by Center for the Art of Translation (CAT)

»The Center for the Art of Translation, coming to this building here on Commercial, I think is the most significant literary event in San Francisco since the opening of the City Lights.« Paul Yamazaki

»Reading, writing and translating are radical acts of resistance.« Jazmina Barrera

Nico - Evening of light YouTube video by martin venator

Nico ~ Evening of Light
(from The Marble Index, 1968)
#NowPlaying #Nico #JohnCale #MusicSky

Her brilliant collaboration with John Cale.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWul...

American singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, Bleecker Street 1966.
#TimBuckley #Photography

I went out tonight. It was glorious.

Great line-up. I caught a bunch of these bands in London later that year or in 1977 - Wayne County (and the Electric Chairs), Talking Heads, The Ramones, (Johnny Thunder's) Heartbreakers, Blondie (+Television, Patti Smith etc etc...)

Max Ernst ~ Quasimodo Genetis, 1956
#MaxErnst #Surrealism

#Walk4Truth - the #national one - started this morning from #Narrm

Love this photo taken in Tokyo today (or really tomorrow, given it’s Sunday there) by @alfie.photography

Sorry to hear about the bad experiences. Maybe this side of the divide is a little less fraught - although... you never know.