Sadly, Soho these days comes over as very anemic save for the occasional gem, one being an unmarked (not illegal nor private) bar that I was taken to — you’d have to know it’s there to enter. A wonderful throwback to a time when Soho was still interesting. Though Bernard was a fixture at the “bloody” Coach…
Died on this day — without doubt one of the greats. No one has ever played the piano like Booker. In an email referring to the new deluxe Classified record, Harry Connick Jr. put it like this: “This CD is yet another example of the powerful genius of a unique and complex mind. I hear joy…
Born on this day — a brief article outlining his life and works. (H/T to Troy Camplin). Albert CamusexistentialismFranz KafkaJean-Paul SartreKierkegaardstalinism
Extracts from The Chap Almanac: An Esoterick Yearbook for the Decadent Gentleman by Vic Darkwood and Gustav Temple. On 1st January 1909, Marcel Proust was reading in bed when he dipped a piece of toast into a glass of tea and remembered something he’d left behind in his childhood. Thus began a vast literary project that would run…
Astonished to see that my Amy Winehouse: The Album Collection comes with one these most grievous of offenses against taste and decency and liberality. Frank . . . our culture is still being infantilized and no doubt has supporters from both the illiberal Left and the illiberal Right — the “central scrutinizers” of Joe’s Garage. “Explicit…
BBC gifted with a “combination of technical mastery and passionate artistry”. marta argerichmusicpiano
Lachlan MacDowall’s chapter in The Uses of Art in Public Space. The chapter explores how graffiti and street art function in public space by considering their relationship to the notion of stigmergy, a theory derived from insect behaviour that explains how the actions of individual agents within populations are coordinated without direct communication. The application…
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The latest volume to The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek Austrian EconomicscapitalFriedrich HayekinterestLawrence White
This BBC radio programme is far more informative and insightful than all the videoed stuff put together. Bolan unfortunately labored under the teen idol ascription which made many in the day keep quite about their admiration for him. Glad this has all changed. 36 years after Marc Bolan’s death, Paul Sexton presents an updated repeat of…
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