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Girl with Fish, by feeble little horse 11 track album

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Ah, it's ok, someone arrived.

Increasingly frequent occurrence at our train station. Also, they got the flippin date wrong!

The Strange World of… Jon Spencer | The Quietus Mark Andrews looks into the four decade back catalogue of the mutant blues master and finds ten points of entry

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Sick of Being Sick!, by Jon Spencer 8 track album

New Jon Spencer I don't think I knew about. Playing Liverpool later this year

▶️ #playloud

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That is, can we adapt or apply some of Barthes' thinking to our present moment?

Related to (un)dead internet theory - which proposes that since something like 2016, online space has been dictated/curated primarily by bots and, latterly, AI?

Yes. I need to get down to see it.

Dorothy hosts the Paper Bag Archive in a new exhibition In Excess Baggage, Liverpool-based creative studio Dorothy is staging an exhibition of 200 bags from the archive, which celebrates ephemeral graphic design

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BBC Four - Storyville, Mistress Dispeller A woman in China hires a 'mistress dispeller' to bring her husband’s affair to an end.

Watched this Storyville doc last night. Don't quite know how the director managed to convince those involved to take part - let alone appear on screen. Tender rather than exploitative.

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Not been out for a few days. V thankful for the sun 🌞

Is usage of 'Outwith' - 'outside; beyond' - on the rise? Like it.

museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze

If you're unfamiliar with the band, and like your garage rock old skool and danceable, it's worth checking them out.

My Baby Loves The Secret Agent, by The Detroit Cobras from the album Baby

Which has put this banger by The Detroit Cobras in my head #playloud ▶️

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Pretty sure I've had COVID, which I'm hoping is gone now. Like my ability to taste food and drink. I'm going to risk going out today to get/send a mother's day card - and maybe treat myself to a trip to the cinema. Aiming for The Secret Agent.

The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday Dennis Prager once wrote a two-part op-ed advocating that wives should have sex with their husbands even when they don’t want to. Now his right-wing organization, PragerU, is partnering with the Trump Administration to educate the youth of America.

Dennis Prager once wrote a two-part op-ed advocating that wives should have sex with their husbands even when they don’t want to. Now his right-wing organization, PragerU, is partnering with the Trump Administration to educate the youth of America. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zLNMgP

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Persepolis STASHED takes us back to ‘07, for its seventh edition, with an animated film that follows an outspoken Iranian girl growing up during and after the Islamic Revolution.

Very timely screening of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (2007) @ FACT in Liverpool tonight. An autobiographical coming of age tale, it provides a rare insight into Iran, beyond the narrow western perspective we all know. A great watch.

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Prepare for ETERNAL WINTER

They were all disputing about the war, about what Thu would do next, what A-lo would do next, what the CWG would do next. "Why do you talk only in abstractions?" he inquired suddenly, wondering as he spoke why he was speaking, when he had resolved not to. "It is not names of countries, it is people killing each other. Why do the soldiers go? Why does a man go kill strangers?"

this passage from le guin's "the dispossessed" seems relevant

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, The Josef Albers Foundation, Inc., 1991 © 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Interlocked by Josef Albers, 1927
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A delicately patterned Orange-tip butterfly clings to a vibrant bluebell, its intricately mottled green and white wings blending seamlessly with the foliage. The butterfly’s fuzzy body and slender antennae contrast against the smooth, curled petals of the bluebell, which droop gracefully on a slender stem. The soft-focus green background enhances the vivid hues of the butterfly and flower, capturing a fleeting moment of springtime beauty.

Nature lovers! We're on the lookout for a shiny new cover photo!

The theme? Signs of spring of course! 🌤️ 🐸 🦋 🌷

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a woman with blonde hair is smiling while holding a red popsicle Alt: A scene from Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive - its stars Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton (as vampires Adam and Eve) play chess while slurping on blood ice lollies.

In some respects, it reads as a blueprint for Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).

But back to the film, adding to its cool is a soundtrack featuring Portishead and My Bloody Valentine.

Pixelvision: How Fisher-Price's Toy Camcorder Flop Became a Filmmaker’s Gem Released in 1987, the Fisher-Price PXL2000 was a toy camcorder that recorded grainy, black-and-white video onto standard audio cassette tapes. With its ultra-low resolution of 120 x 90 pixels and quir...

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Pixelvision toy camera

It was, in-part, shot using a Pixelvision toy camera - to great effect I think!

Nadja theatrical poster

Nadja film still

Watching Nadja (1994), which I haven't seen since or around its release. A self-consciously cool vampire film, it's exec produced by David Lynch (who has a cameo). Peter Fonda is Van Helsing! It's lo-fi and, as vampire films should be, great to look at.

Barthes, micro-death, and the many afterlives of undead digital images.