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This is a tricky one. I’ve never been that impressed with ‘best of’ lists but I found myself sitting in a hotel room listening to music on my phone and I began thinking about what my favourite (and most influential) albums of all-time were. I say influential because, as some of you know, I…
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so here I am in florence connecting with the past trying to find myself in a weird way playing music in a strange land full of cobwebs and fairies that leap up at me and scare me and wake me from my renaissance sleep there is no past only the present where art screams…
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When the oppressed take up arms in the name of justice, they take a step toward injustice. Related articles Camus’ ‘Chronicles’: A History Of The Past, A Guide For The Future (npr.org) Camus (episyllogism.wordpress.com) Camus, please say what you have to say…. (musiqdragonfly.wordpress.com) “You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if…
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Well, I spent Wednesday to Friday last week in Liverpool staying with my old school friend Nev, and what a fascinating place it is. Apart from visiting the International Slavery Museum for a short time several years back it is the first time I’ve been in the city. I don’t know why really. What…
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cows grazing in a field but when they get in the slaughterhouse they know nothing about death
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Margaret Thatcher left a dark legacy that has still not disappeared http://gu.com/p/3f24g
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Until recently I knew about Marcel Duchamp but not very much. I knew he was an iconoclast who presented a porcelain urinal as a work of art but I had no idea of his profound influence on others like John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Visiting this exhibition at the Barbican changed all that. It…