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Rick Burin

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I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Aug 11

I sat down with my favourite writer, and her band. We talked about love and language and healing and sex. inews.co.uk/culture/musi...

Big Thief: ‘We want to take the shame out of sex. It’s been trashed in our culture’

The alt-folk band say their latest album is 'a record about everything': birth and death, grief, love and longing – and reclaiming the gentler side of lovemaking

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BILL RYAN @faceyouhate.bsky.social · 1m

It is an amazing song, but there's a reason he gave it to Johnny Cash.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1m

“I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth” sounds like something written in 1865 when the country and the grief was new.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 2m

I don’t know how you write this, where it came from, or what wellsprings of faith, love, forgiveness and tender Americanism are required to create it. A miracle of a song open.spotify.com/track/2lSL89...

Down There By The Train

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 5m

Magic! And same here (though in Edinburgh). Feel so incalculably lucky to have had the chance.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9m

Thanks for sharing, going to watch now!

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𝕊till 𝔸ndy really @squirlykat.bsky.social · 10m

God, Tom is amazing!
This rendition of Bukowski makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it
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The laughing heart (Tom Waits reads a Charles Bukowski poem)

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9m

Absolutely. The only one in my top 100, much as I like Fury Road.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 10m

What a song that is

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Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social · 13m

"I'd just drive a different car every day/Dependin' on how I feel"

Something about that line devastates me every time

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 10m

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D J E @davidjamesevans.bsky.social · 11m

The Earth Died Screaming - vivid evocation of a hellish apocalypse complete with fish raining from locust skies and what's Tom up to? Having a nap and dreaming about someone he loves. Just perfect.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 10m

Hahaha quite

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 11m

Tom’s not necessarily right but Hislop’s perma-blinking contempt for anyone who creates popular music is probably not the right tone youtu.be/MDhun9qfu1M?...

Ian Hislop on his disastrous interview with Tom Waits

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 12m

On that record, or generally? I love MV because it’s both immortal, off-balance balladeering and really weird shit.

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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 14m

I love how Mule Variations is predominantly made up of clanking, groaning and creaking sounds and is still somehow a piece of art that is clearly of the American Midwest.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 13m

Have you seen the one where he has a small row with Ian Hislop?

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 14m

You won't find a better five minutes of chat show performance than this. youtu.be/x0UcIXsQgG4?...

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14m

Every line is perfect. I’ve watched it so many times

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hannibalpearce.bsky.social @hannibalpearce.bsky.social · 19m

"We'll just clarify this for you" - proceeds to do anything but.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15m

Thanks very much

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15m

A unique and towering talent. Shall we celebrate him while he’s still here? You can nominate next week.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 15m

Also every record he made, after the first one, is great. And after he met the love of his life, he quit drinking, dropped the persona he’d begun to unhealthily mythologise, and just had a nice time hanging around with his wife and kids. Did I mention that he absolutely loves Babe: Pig in the City.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 18m

The accompaniment to so much of my life, since I clicked with him at 18. My single favourite gig EVER was his show at the Edinburgh Playhouse in 2008. I love it that he invented a musical and lyrical vocabulary that was entirely his own, instantly recognisable and yet impossible to parody well.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 21m

Can you livestream your next chat with whoever subbed that, please?

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 23m

That construction is one of my faves 🤗