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John Martyn a great example of a monster who created beautiful music.

She never fails. If Lucy Mangan loves it you can guarantee it’s going to be somewhere between poor and awful. (In this case the lamentable Vladimir)

This is positively Churchillian surely

I’m pretty sure they project a dislike of Chalamet’s youth, success and ambition onto it and unthinkingly reject it

Pamela Brown very much has to be MRS Potts otherwise Kiloran wouldn’t be wasting time chasing the otherwise delightful Joan

Bizarrely its reviewed (favourably) in The Wire this month

It’s their best since Plastic Beach in my book and I find a lot of it rather lovely - each to their own though

Lucky you - even though Scottish we drowned in William Walton and (lesser) Elgar!

I found it both fascinating but oddly boring. Performances are stunning and the direction was through the roof. Ultimately though I found it a bit repetitive and somehow not engaging and for me the music really didn’t help. Astonishing to look at as opposed to watch

Sheila MacRae #Mums26

Thank you Ian - a lovely thing to do

The sweary stuff is pretty good too

John Hodge told me he hadn’t realised until sneaking into a screening on opening night that they’d made a very sad film about middle aged regret. I think it’s one of the great sequels and I salute Boyle in that after a lengthy international career he could make something that felt entirely Scottish

Either Hawke and Moura would be tremendous choices - though Chalamet was also terrific

Sorry for your loss Moose

Wait till you get to ep 6 and meet James VI of Scotland…..

Let’s hope he’s sweating now

We stand the standard distance distant strangers stand apart - David Berman

Fantastic piece - seeking out What Happened Was… immediately

Given Miss America is one of my favourite albums why have I taken so long to listen to this?

Sunday morning blues

The Bone Temple is definitely better than its abysmal predecessor - but it’s also sillier (and places way more belief in Iron Maiden than can be tolerated)

I like every one mentioned above but there’s a surprising lack of The Wild Bunch here

Big vote for the Pig in the City

Don’t forget Neil Oliver

Wasn’t Parkinson played by Terry Scott?

Extremely bad film

Delighted to see some Blue Moon recognition which was my biggest surprise at the cinema last year

Seems it’s up to folk to blacklist those reporters or news outlets if they don’t start confronting the lies

It’s been a while since I read her and this, her first novel, is new to me. Glorious how she can take a seedy world and invest it with baroque colouring so it feels enchanting. Feels somewhat like a Ken Russell film in that way

Shadow Dance - Angela Carter

“He turned at once and fled through the dangerous open air, retaining neither breath nor tranquility until he had stood for long, peaceful minutes in the museum before the splendidly preserved 1904 brewer’s dray, frozen in perpetuity in straining toil with two stuffed horses pulling it.”