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Clever Kids*
*aged 40+ Off the booze after a month dabbling in mild organ failure, seems I’ve decided now’s the time to get into The Hold Steady. To my poptimist sponsors, I’m sorry, my sublime femme reading of Bruce Springsteen is in the post. I’ve mostly been sticking to the early and late extremes because I’m Hyden-pilled…
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“You aint a gangster cuz you done a little time…”
For our sins we respect the classics round here. Not so much rappers who can still cut a mean riff even if they don’t have a proper album in them anymore — mean enough to get yr head nodding while you browse for inadvisable tracksuits at least. But no. When we talk about the classics…
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“You got a dead cat in there or what?”
The Terminator (James Cameron, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1984) You can still feel them, can’t you? Ice cold despite the violence involved in the machine’s passing. Check your shoulder. Nothing there, not so much as a single finger. So where is the chill coming from? Sarah Connor squirms out of the machine’s grip…
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“A bit of ambition here, for the love of fuck!”
If you’ve not subscribed to the Mindless Ones newsletter yet, I think you probably should. Comes out once a week, usually in time for you to read it with a coffee on Sunday morning. Dense articles on art, magic, and politics accompanied by fucked comics and the odd spectacular illustration. Collective vision: no one member…
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Who’s Watching?
A few people have suggested that I start up a ScotLit video channel recently. I’ve resisted the temptation so far, but sometimes wonder if this is me trying not to talk to avoid hearing my own thoughts. I always saw myself as the type of weegie that dreams of being elsewhere – Gotham City, New…
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“And so are you”
Scissor Sisters – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, 17 May 2025 “How can less be more?” Alison Goldfrapp doing ‘Strict Machine’ in a big metallic jacket as a warm-up? A bit much. Sending out a twerking gorilla to open the curtains on your show? A little rich for my tastes. Bringing on Jessie Ware halfway through the…
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