Oh, my president-elect crush burns strong: Barack Obama seen with poetry collection. Of course it’s not just any old poetry collection, it is Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems. A Nobel Prize laureate; a Caribbean poet straddling colonialism, post-colonialism, and the Western canon; someone who proclaims “.. either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation”. Of course, as [...]
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- Welcome, welcome 2009
January 4, 2009If you like Elliott Smith, you'd like Winterpills. Here's A Benediction.
- Mellow Thursday
October 9, 2008Lovely: Wisely - Through Any Window
- Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
September 19, 2008A gorgeous, gorgeous song. I can't believe I never watched the video before now.
- Patrick Wolf- Danzing
September 7, 2008Patrick Wolf does Eurovision! (the 2007 offering from Ukraine, worryingly enough)
- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
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