James Caig

Called it bsky.app/profile/jame...

Well, I really liked Digger too

"Late summer-autumn: the camp started falling apart. November: Kurtz orders the assassinations. The army tried one last time to bring him back. But he kept going. They lost him. He was gone. Nothing but rumours and rambling intelligence.” #celebritytraitors

Drama is magnificent. I loved Wild and The Innocents so much. Stop was the first 7” I ever bought (an EP to boot!). His WFL remix made me an indie portal via the Chart Show. Banger after banger. (With apologies to you and @seanedmund.bsky.social for sharing as a quote - can’t reply to thread…)

Bad news: made the final whistle Good news: in time for analysis Bad news: itv shows 2 context-free challenges then the winning goal then a disallowed goal, pundits talking across each other, then celebrations, then an ad break, then the other goals, like get a writer, know your story

Happy ‘families who pay for private school get to go on holiday cheaper than everyone else because other schools are still open for two more weeks’ day to all who celebrate, may the rest of us join in via the ritual receipt of all those OOO emails.

“And what costume shall the poor girl wear?” “Well, here’s one I made earlier.”

4th July reading on the train

Neuromancer is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

1) Bono’s leather-waistcoat-no-shirt look. 2) The sanctification of Freddie Mercury as ‘the perfect showman’ when he died.

Went to a gig on Wednesday. Yes, Wednesday. Outside. It was a furnace but a very joyful one cos it was seeing Super Furry Animals for the first time in 10 years. My review for @bristol247.bsky.social has just gone up. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...

Little piece from me for @bristol247.bsky.social based on an interview with Guto from the Super Furry Animals, ahead of their Bristol show next week. We talk band democracy, being forward-facing and a love of experimentation. A lovely man in a great band. www.bristol247.com/culture/musi...

This morning’s @bristol247.bsky.social article and something kind of similar.

“Sunday, in the afternoon, what have you got to lose…?”

“On the one hand it’s an England that’s hardly changed. On the other hand it changes every day, every hour. It’s always now. It’s the now that’s eternal, actually.” David Hockney

Canada looking helpless, helpless, helpless…

Did not know this. How brilliant.

Newk’s Time is over. What a life.

On Dylan’s 85th birthday, here’s a playlist of some of my favourite Dylan covers open.spotify.com/playlist/3q8...

I Wanna Testify Good Old Music Everybody’s Going To Make It This Time Mothership Connection One Nation Under A Groove

introduce yourself with 10 bands/artists you've seen live Gil Scott-Heron Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dexys PJ Harvey Rolling Stones Calexico Stone Roses Herbie Hancock Brian Wilson Hot Chip

I understand they could never have called it Batman Legocy, but that doesn’t mean I can’t also be disappointed

The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story Keep On Keeping On Freddie’s Dead Right On (For The Darkness) Billy Jack

Finally saw Sweet Smell Of Success - what a dark-hearted film it is. Dialogue so dense and poetic it’s hard to follow whats going on. But it sure lingers. Grateful to my film buff friend for immediately lending me the director’s book so I can work out why…

🎶 let’s get together and eat minced beef🎶

The Amorous Humphrey Plugg It’s Raining Today The Old Man’s Back Again The Electrician Track Three

Grease. Nothing cute or fun or cool about it. Toxic sexual politics, horrible songs - ‘did she put up a fight’? Ugh. Everyone a cartoon (except for Stockard Channing, and what happens to her character is grim.) Sandy’s transformation is 70s male gaze nonsense.

Tin Soldier - Small Faces Racing In The Street - Springsteen River Man - Nick Drake Edith & The Kingpin - Joni I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - Beatles Make Me Believe In You - Patti Jo Promised Land - Joe Smooth Controversy - Prince Finders Keepers - Chairmen of the Board Lady Grinning Soul - Bowie

Sail on, sailor! Delighted to see Allison morphing into a 1970s Beach Boy.

This weather, this time of year - it just sounds like this to me. It is Small Faces season, and this just sounds amazing, still.

Ian Penman on the Beach Boys - impeccable. My word, he’s good at this. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Found a Mad Men box set in a charity shop. £2 - couldn’t not. (Some sense is kicking in I should be prepping for streamer collapse.) The media outlet calling depictions (S1 alone) of brutal misogyny, blatant racism, forced adoption and workplace bullying “sheer joy”? That’ll be the Mail On Sunday.

Finished this over the weekend. It’s very good. There’s a recurring line that defines America as “an adolescence without end“ and I keep thinking about that.

Happy April 5th, everyone. Here she comes… medium.com/a-longing-lo...

🎶 *bryan ferry voice* “Disposable darling You’ve made so much money My new hobby is flags It’s a national emergency”