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Rockwrite UK: its roots and discontents, its early evolution and its latent potential
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— 1 May 2015 mark sinker 11 comments

FT readers who are interested in writing about music and the specifics of its history in the UK, I have organised a treat for you (if you live in or near London, or happen to be visiting in precisely two weeks time = May 15-16 2015). It is THIS: a co[…]

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From Beyond
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— 1 May 2015 Tom 15 comments

NEW THRILL!
This is an origin story. Thirty years ago, give or take a day, I went to my local newsagent and I bought a new comic. The next day I asked the newsagent, Mr.Mann, he of the back room full of protein supplements and ‘marital advice’ pa[…]

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Taxonomy Domine
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— 24 Apr 2015 Tom 15 comments

Sisyphus was a rockist.
This is a list – scribbled down over lunch, then expanded – of ways that writers who focus on pop music have approached it. I agree with some. I disagree with some. Some of them I’ve tried, some I’ve only read. A few h[…]

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Is Japan’s Bathhouse That Unusual?
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— 15 Apr 2015 Tom 2 comments

More comics reviews, this time focused on manga. Contains spoilers in places!
Thermae Romae I (Yen Press)
Surely the greatest time travel/bathhouse design manga ever written, Mari Yamakazi’s charming Thermae Romae has the pace and pleasures of […]

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What A Magical Young Lady You Are
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— 2 Apr 2015 Tom Comment

More comics reviews originally from goodreads.com
SUPREME: BLUE ROSE (Image Comics)
The 1990s saw a rash of metafictional superhero comics by British writers – Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo and Animal Man, Alan Moore’s Promethea, […]

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Breakfast bang-bang: cereal/bagel
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— 21 Mar 2015 Bec 3 comments

Leslie Knope: Why would anybody ever eat anything besides breakfast food?
Ron Swanson: People are idiots, Leslie.
Michael Bluth: What have we always said is the most important thing?
George-Michael Bluth: Breakfast?
Michael Bluth: Family.
George-Mich[…]

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My Own Private Record Club*
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— 10 Mar 2015 Tom 110 comments

This is a post listing the records I’m listening to for my YEAR OF ROCKISM**, as outlined here (cut and pasted from Tumblr):
I’m going to listen to one album on a once-a-day basis for a week, a different one each week. Not in order to write a[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Not-A-Poll Films Of 2014: 5-1
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— 23 Feb 2015 Pete Baran 1 comment

“Hi I am Lorelei Linklater and I am here to present the top five Freaky Trigger Not A Poll movies of 2014, even though it is well into 2015. I am delighted to be here because I am certain that a film I was in will appear, and perhaps I will fin[…]

KIND OF BLEUGH, or seven better stand-alone ways into jazz in the early age of the long-playing disc (possibly)
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— 19 Feb 2015 mark sinker 42 comments

(Hoisted from comments on Tom’s thread re-exploring LP-listening in the age of the no-longer moored individual song)
So Tom had put Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis on his list, and in response the thread had discussed the mechanics of politics of[…]

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I Hope You Can Kill Me Before Graduation
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— 12 Feb 2015 Tom 2 comments

Graphic novel reviews, originally posted on goodreads.com
ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM, Vol.1 (Viz Media)
This first volume unfussily sets up the hit manga’s premise – an octopus being has destroyed the moon, then become a teacher of a remedi[…]

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