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NEW BOOK: Erik Satie Three Piece Suite (Fitzcarraldo + Semiotexte) 24.4.25 | LAST BOOK: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors | NEXT BOOK ...

"Where is North from here?"
Joined November 2011
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Satie serendipity (ii): rare live performance of Satie's fascinating 16+ hour work Vexations, and it falls on ... #ES3PS publication day! Couldn't have planned it better myself... | southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-…
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Satie serendipity (i): Suzanne Valadon is a key figure in Erik Satie Three Piece Suite and there's a long overdue retrospective of her work currently showing at the Centre Pompidou ... | centrepompidou.fr/fr/program…
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Still trying to get my head around the fact that Al Green and Jacques Lacan shared a birthday. "(Do Not Imagine For A Second That It Is Not Impossible To Mend) A Broken Heart".
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Erik Satie Three Piece Suite | 24.4.25
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The kites of Alexander Graham Bell, 1895-1910.
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'The Voice of Space' (1928) by René Magritte, probably one of the most influential science fiction images of all time
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Jacques Rivette, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet e Jean Narboni na cidade de Utrecht após sessão de "Crônica de Anna Magdalena Bach" no ano de 1968
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“What was it about this intensely local phenomenon—­straddling Jamaica and the Midlands—­that allowed it to become a musical Esperanto?” Ian Penman (@pawboy2) on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/03/…
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“This is a ghost story of sorts, written in cycles and loops, loafers and suits, ornery protest and wired-­to-­the-­skies dance weekends.” @pawboy2 on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/03/…
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Harper’s Magazine is a finalist in three categories for the 2025 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Reread these outstanding pieces: “After the Deluge,” by Gary Greenberg: harpers.org/archive/2024/12/… “Lady Day of the Alhambra,” by Ian Penman: harpers.org/archive/2024/03/… “Discourse to Self,” by Rosalind Brown: harpers.org/archive/2024/11/… “Lovefool,” by Andrew Martin: harpers.org/archive/2024/08/… “Liquid Papers,” by Nicolette Polek: harpers.org/archive/2024/07/…
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Incredibly chuffed to be nominated for an ASME National Magazine Award (Reviews & Criticism) for this @Harpers piece on Billie Holiday... | harpers.org/archive/2024/03/…
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“ ‘I Got a Thing’ has a definite down-home testifying sheen, but this is Gospel as sung by some ragged street-corner character, twitchy and impatient, grit and bad weather all in their face.”—@pawboy2 on George Clinton’s “I Got a Thing,” from the archive 4columns.org/penman-ian/parl…
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Paul Schrader, interviewed by Ian Penman. Pics by Anton Corbijn. New Musical Express, 2 October 1982. [parts 1-4/5]
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Fascinating and fantastic history including the woman who went to girly clubs with Walter Benjamin. e-flux.com/notes/639907/hand…
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