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Month: September 2019

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User Avatar of Stephen Pieper Stephen Pieper
· September 30, 2019 · 0 minutes to read
Richard Thompson at 70: on love, loss and being a Muslim in Trump's US
The master of British folk music has weathered a second divorce and lives in the US where ‘Trump has ramped up bigotry considerably’. At least ex-wife Linda has forgiven him
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· September 29, 2019 · 1 minute to read

“Gilles Deleuze in Negotiations: We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”

Quoted from How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy By Jenny Odell

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· September 28, 2019 · 1 minute to read

Wind turbines in a field.

Testing Bridgy and Flickr posting.

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· September 23, 2019 · 1 minute to read

First world problems. I’ve got two spare tickets for a big concert coming up and I can’t decide if sitting at the front or twelve rows back is better.

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· September 23, 2019 · 1 minute to read

My copy of the new Henry Cow book arrived today. I’m hoping for tales of Mötley Crüe style debauchery but my hopes aren’t high.

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· September 12, 2019 · 0 minutes to read
North Sea Radio Orchestra: Folly Bololey (Dark Companion) by philfacelift
I suspect that for most people reading this blog, the words ‘Foley Bololey’ will be an instantly recognisable part of their own Canterbury lexicon in a similar way to  ‘Punkweed’ or the Octave Doctors. Robert Wyatt’s Learesque lyrics from which this snippet was take...
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Music lover, reader, tea drinker, film watcher, web dabbler. IndieWeb novice. Glasgow, Scotland.

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