Christopher White
@bombaylychee.bsky.social
Still mostly about something and nothing, and still from various places too.
🎷Ornette Coleman plays two numbers at the White House. Si youtu.be/Zn3hx6diwW4?...
JIMMY CARTER'S WHITE HOUSE JAZZ FESTIVAL1978-06-18 NPR/WAMU-FM BROADCAST
YouTube video by classictbone
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🙃“As Energy Secretary, I want to take the heat out of this debate” #R4Today
Mahler sounds kinda deranged in the first half. Was he really so shouty? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
BBC Proms - 2026 - Mahler’s First Symphony by Heart - BBC Sounds
Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon perform Mahler's Symphony No 1
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Geoff Dyer on why reading Lonesome Dove made him buy a pair of cowboy boots, perhaps like the ones I saw made in Fort Worth last autumn.
Today I discovered that Walt Whitman is filth
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 5d agoLimitless limpet jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn, Undulating into the willing and yielding day, Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh’d day.
"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole." —Herman Melville, born today in 1819
Gagarin also visited Manchester, where he was similarly regarded with respect, fondness, awe and huge enthusiasm. It’s a moment that seems to have left next to no cultural footprint at all. Which seems an awful shame.
In this month in 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, visited England. Cold War or not, his reception in London seems to have been, press reports say, close to what would soon be Beatlemania. Though photos rarely show the worst of it, the press reports detail huge crowds & fearsome crushes.
‘Women had their hair cut “à la Marat”. David’s painting of his death, unveiled on the same day Marie-Antoinette went to the guillotine, immortalised the people’s friend as a martyr for the republic and the revolution.’ Oliver Cussen on the revolutionary. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Oliver Cussen · Doctor of the Incurable: Marat Unmade
Beyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Jean-Paul Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason...
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“Which is the way to the toilet?” Thelonious Monk listens to Oscar Peterson.
Murder on the Orient Express at the BFI. Kazuo Ishiguro and Sophie Hannah introducing and both as much fun as Albert Finney.
Emily Wilson argues that while Homer’s Odyssey might seem the perfect source material for Christopher Nolan, the ancient Greek poem also excels at many things the director isn't so good at. On the podcast, Wilson joins Tom Jones to talk through the new adaptation: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Nolan vs Homer
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min
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The Widow’s Peak, The Egg McMuffin, The Electric Hedgehog.
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
It’s notable that Spain instituted the latifundia system, where they occupied a lot of land but didn’t produce much with it.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is a little known fact that the Spanish Empire was conquered through blood, sweat and tedium
