Luke Turner

I mean yeah if they had Ian McShane playing the character it could work, but I fear this is not what they mean

NOOOOO!!! There should not be a Lovejoy remake, ffs.

The last time a Tudor got this badly embarrassed by the Spanish, England schismed christianity.

Yeah exactly, I think it's complicated, from night to night. It can be just a DJ getting a load of addled people to dance on a string, which isn't very revolutionary at all (I did once write on Huxley's Brave New World/rave culture and E as soma/control, I keep meaning to dig it out but fear to)

that's the sort of thing I'm talking about tbh, I think the utopianism can be overblown – it can often just be a load of people, on drugs, some probably quite horny, responding to the controlling impact of music. And that's it. And that is also fine!

Listening to a heavy Ancient Methods mix and pondering how wary I am of the 'shared radical utopia of the dancefloor' stuff that is in vogue these days. It was never really like that for me, I always felt very solitary and other people on a dancefloor are... annoying? Off their heads, sweaty &c

that is a really pleasing bit of landscape

Thanks Matthew!

Room 506 (aka Ancient Methods) - Drop Out YouTube video by A1A2B1B2

What's that you say? A Nico 'Chelsea Girl' vocal sample over grotty doof? I'd forgotten this absolute banger from the glorious years of grotty doof, 2010 - 2016ish.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDc9...

🖤🙏 That is exactly it! It drives me wild when people say "oh you're so critical" well, yes, but I also love things with the fire of 1000 suns! And the world could simply do better and try harder.

true haters are lovers at heart, speaking as one

Thank you!

ha! I mean, it is the subtext for mine, so...

oh neither did I haha. That is odd, as the rewrite bears barely any relation to the original?!

it's an odd test as I found it impossible to override a subjective sense of what is interesting – eg the non-fiction one the human felt v boring and generic vs the AI, which felt more poetic. But was actually AI. Am I doomed?

this is what I am not sure about – I do think there's something missing from the discourse at the moment, and bisexual people (especially men) frequently remain closeted

“The right for queer people to gather openly to be boring and discuss sandwiches is as fundamental to me as the right to dress as a horse and get ridden in a sex dungeon” - being boring is OK. Last share for this one, was lovely to be on paper at the weekend: observer.co.uk/style/featur...

aside from the amusing double meaning, that whole "woah total bummer dude" sort of Bill & Ted slacker lingo doesn't half bring me out in hives. Just not right.

Ha!

Absolutely fantastic:

that is absolutely amazing!

Banger

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids | The Quietus I’m sat on the floor behind my dad’s armchair, chunky headphones on, listening to a new 12” my brother has bought. Our music centre lives in a compartment on an MFI divider unit, beside my parents’ co...

"The world Pet Shop Boys evoked to me back then was less kitchen sink drama, more film noir... This was a gay underworld, unspoken and largely invisible." Thanks @grindrod.bsky.social for this wonderful essay on PSB, the suburbs & sexuality:

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I stumbled across what might be the aftermath of a suburban ritual in Epping Forest earlier, a few metres away from the North Circular and the 30s semi-detached. The placing of the broom between two cleft logs looks 👀... and nearby, the first bracken emerges, the hornbeam leaves well on their way.

The hidden history of Britain’s fight for queer rights Several new books explore the LGBTQ+ lives and narratives that have all too often been ignored

I did a load of Men At War research there - and have recently been going in to read about the surprisingly active Mackintosh scene in the war years. I wrote this about the archive being at the heart of so much non-fiction at the moment, in the Obs today observer.co.uk/style/featur...

I love that t-shirt! The most amazing and special place

thank you Mark! Was one of those dream commissions. Hope all is well x

yeah I was tempted by that but ended up going for the epic wander instead!

The Trekroner Fort, Copenhagen harbour

commander's house, Kastellet citadel

explosives store protected by bastion, Kastellet

Second World War memorial to fallen Dutch soldiers

The Kastellet citadel has a view out to the Trekroner Søfort, both involved in the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen (Nelson & telescope to the blind eye). You can really sense how close to the city it was, must have been absolutely terrifying for the citizens. There's also a fine, simple WWII memorial.

rooftops in Christianshavn

Old Danish warship and large crane in Copenhagen harbour

Windmill and cannon at the old citadel

Dome interior of Frederik's Church aka The Marble Church

It's been years, since pre-Covid times I think, that I've been able to do my favourite thing in the world – spend a day wandering around a city looking at eg ships, churches, fortifications & Copenhagen was a dream for it. I think this is what they call #selfcare