"We laughed our way to the summit through thin glutinous mud, set two rappels through a waterfall, and returned, slimy and giggling"
Rock climbing in Fiordland, New Zealand, as chronicled by Galen A. Rowell, American Alpine Journal, 1978; publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/121...
Interesting BBC study of te new SE London town of Thamesmead in 1972... shortly after it was used by Kubrick as a futuristic locale for "A Clockwork Orange".
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Lee Ranaldo on recording Sonic Youth's "Goo". Rip It Up, August 1990; paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/...
Southbank Show episode from 1983 about David Hockney's "joiner" photography.
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"Just by looking at the album art you can already smell the sounds on here" (Pad Chennington on @disasteradio.bsky.social Eyeliner's "Drop Shadow")
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"The archive fever of the past twenty-five years might be a form of emotional anti-accelerationism, a generation desperately trying to produce a wind drag on the forward velocity powered by the deathly machinery of the twentieth century" (Audrey Wollen)
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HIT VIBES PITCHFORK REVIEW
WHAT IS GOING ON IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW
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"In the early 1940s, the self-taught Orkney smallholder’s child tried to find a teaching role at St Andrews. Although TS Eliot and John Buchan submitted testimonials, the professor of English swatted Muir away as ‘a crofter’s son who has never been to university’" engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
A Brief History Of The Studio As An Instrument www.ableton.com/en/blog/stud...
For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.
