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Stretch Macgibbon

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Miles davis is a genius, Davis miles are lawyers. Likes: Chaos, choking on rocket, wine. Dislikes: Earnest bands doing earnest music while doing earnest faces

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 3d

I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 3d

RTE quick maths!!

Mindbending mathematics from RTE. Church in Drogheda with light display.

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Clash Magazine @clashmusic.com · 4d

New-Found Technicolour: Just Mustard Interviewed

The Dundalk embrace rave culture on their uncompromising new album - Elle Palmer finds out more...

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 5d

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Black Cat

Podcast Episode · Kid Congo Powers reads stuff · 13/10/2017 · 1m

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 7d

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Colette Willis @colettewillis.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently Dalmatians were often used as circus dogs…

Half-Dalmatian dog yawning widely while perched on a step stool in front of a French door

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 9d

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10d

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance. “One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert.” [kottke.org]

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance

One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert. Open Culture’s Colin Marshall writes: Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Un

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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 9d

Stewart Lee on the Riyadh Comedy Festival @thenerve.news
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Stewart Lee: Homosexuals and feminists face execution in Saudi. Now they’ve got the standups on to them as well

On the centenary of his birth, what would legendary satirist Lenny Bruce and a generation he inspired make of those on stage at the Riyadh comedy festival?

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 10d

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Kid Congo reads Annabel Lee

Podcast Episode · Kid Congo Powers reads stuff · 05/10/2017 · 3m

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Oct 21

Death snuffs out a candle and looks at you as if to say, "You're next."

[Juan de Valdés Leal, In Ictu Oculi ("In the Blink of an Eye"), 1670-72, Oil on canvas, 220 x 216 cm Hospital de la Caridad, Seville 🎃💀]

"The In Ictu Oculi (an allegory of death) presents the triumph of the grim reaper, who sweeps into the picture as an imposing figure. One skeletal foot stands on the globe, while the other stands on armaments, the trappings of office and insignia of power. Under his arm, he carries a coffin and in his hand a scythe. As his right hand snuffs out the life-light represented by the candle, he stares at the spectator from the very depths of his empty eye-sockets." (WGA)

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 11d

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Strong Message Here - The End of the Age of Terror and Death (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds

Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee present the greatest episode of anything ever.

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 11d

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Halloween Poem . E. Dickinson

Podcast Episode · Kid Congo Powers reads stuff · 12/10/2017 · 2m

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13d

Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

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Stretch Macgibbon @stretchmacgibbon.bsky.social · 13d

Brilliant, and makes me want to read ‘Monolithic Undertow’ again.

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Axis of Tweeville: Mawkish Brit Food Culture V The Glory Of Keith Floyd | The Quietus

We have an odd relationship to food and drink in Britain. We’re good at wallowing in a simpering nationalistic jingoism, a sentimentality that often shuns the very best of what we do – offal; non chai...

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The Jase @thejase.bsky.social · 14d

I've always loved Hendrix's solo from The Wind Cries Mary.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 17d

'Let’s be honest for at least a sentence. The first single ‘Lover’ couldn’t be any more dogshit if it had been squeezed from the lampshade-wide and bright crimson sphincter of Clifford himself.'

#RichardAshcroft - Lovin’ You

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Richard Ashcroft - Lovin’ You album cover. Ashcroft holds up his guitar during sunset at the beach, but the revellers would rather walk into the ocean than listen to his nonsense.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 20d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 21d

In response, FG have issued a video of Heather digging out a fox and setting the hounds on it, to the tune of The Chemical Brothers "Dig Your Own Hole".