whittling this down to five felt like drowning multiple sacks of kittens but i got there by undeniable scientific means: yearning, sticking on lana's entire back catalogue, and noting which ones i wheeled back the most

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last yr.

Hope you want to read 15,000 words about Lana Del Rey because here's the latest in the top 5 songs Hell World series on the coolest oldest sister alive. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-love-...

🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩 CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...

The Hidden Side of Brazil's Gang Favelas

YouTube video by Away Days with Jake Hanrahan

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a short story about british strip clubs written entirely with words i harvested from reviews of british strip clubs: open.substack.com/pub/emmagarl...

“No one lives less than these men, and yet they want to live forever.” emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

my newsletter about desire has led me to places i wouldn't even go with a gun (weighing up the sex appeal of olly murs) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

The only thing you need to read about the Olly Murs before / after body pics discourse and what it says about gender, desire and physical ideals etc is on @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle Substack: emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

Gabrielle #38 – Backshots with... Olly Murs' 'Before' Photo

Today in Sentences Nobody Has Ever Used Before, it is time to contemplate the sexual magnetism of Olly Murs.

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once again being a Gabrielle Ultra by reminding you that it's the best and indeed only newsletter on sex and desire you will ever need: emmagarland.substack.com/p/panties-in...

Gabrielle #5 – Panties Inferno

Or; why no one can be normal about Jeremy Allen White's Calvin Klein campaign.

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this and the virgin suicides (original motion picture score) by air

it was so sick when this was the creative genesis point for children's films and not some studio head asking "which actor with instagram face can we get to resurrect X disney character against a foul CGI backdrop"

Scifi Art@scifiart.bsky.social · last yr.

Concept art by Ul de Rico for The NeverEnding Story (1984) 1/2

Videodrome directed by David Cronenberg, 1983

in the spirit of easter, here's an essay about developing a formative crush on an american missionary who helped run a christian summer camp in the chapel next door to my house emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

Gabrielle #37 – Christine

An erotic Easter sermon.

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“All in all it seems increasingly likely that the end of the world won’t come with a bang, but with a cringe.” With global tensions rising, @emmaggarland.bsky.social explains how fragile male egos stand at the core of it all. www.huckmag.com/article/doge...

As DOGE stutters, all that remains is cringe

Department of Gargantuan Egos — With tensions splintering the American right and contemporary rap’s biggest feud continuing to make headlines, newsletter…

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pleased to have written the cover story for this week's @thetls.bsky.social – on joan didion, writerly myth-making, and the results of a few recent books that attempt to unpick the didion "brand." enormous thanks to @georgeberridge.bsky.social for the diligent edit. www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...

happy reality (social media is over) emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

wrote about shame emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

for @dazeddigital.com i wrote about the new wave of erotic films and how, after years of prudishness and moral sanctimony, "sex is back" in popular entertainment – but saying what? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

fairest way to settle this is no rules physical combat with every director / actor who has crossed the PCC threshold (tommy wiseau, brendan fraser, tarantino, john waters et al) vs the landlord. but for real, protect london's best cinema: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com · 2y ago

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

a true north in a wayward world and a fantastic head of hair on him until the head. RIP david lynch. emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

new newsletter on what robert eggers' nosferatu says about contemporary sexual anxieties, ft. shame, vampire simps, and female desire as divine rather than dangerous emmagarland.substack.com/p/gabrielle-...

darkness vs light, art vs entertainment, the desire to be good vs the reality of being human – i reviewed ethel cain's 'perverts', where all these things collide, for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

The Greak Dark: Perverts by Ethel Cain | The Quietus

The American artist also known as Hayden Silas Anhedönia digs deep into twilit territories of Southern Gothic fiction and experimental drone for a concept album about a preacher's daughter on the run

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wrote this for @newstatesman.com about 'better man', robbie williams' double-edged relationship with fame, and how his story is also a parable of british working class aspiration www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...

keeping abreast of the markets and deconstructing your desires is IN for 2025

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2y ago

anyway as a conclusion to my various media rants I'd like to say that the only two media products I pay for are FT Edit (www.ft.com/ft-edit) and @emmaggarland.bsky.social's Gabrielle (emmagarland.substack.com) which I really just aggressively love, as a combination of things

the rust cohle of south wales has entered the chat

Some public domain NASA artworks by Don Davis, taken from his website, where they're hosted for free: "You paid for them and they're yours." www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyou...

masterpiece

Clash Magazine@clashmusic.com · 2y ago

Today in 1987 Pet Shop Boys hit No. 1 in the UK with their version of 'Always On My Mind' - it beat The Pogues to Christmas No. 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDMC...

in trying to invent new ways to make it through british winter i've become an evening exhibition person. felt even better to visit one of my favourite paintings, francis bacon's man in blue I, knowing it was dark out.

How Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" and "Prostitute Flange" laid the aesthetic and sonic foundation for emo-rap. An excerpt from "Crybaby," @donnacwrites.bsky.social's definitive new book on one of the most influential hip-hop sub-genres of the last two decades Out 1/21 www.passionweiss.com/2024/12/11/a...

How Lil Wayne Shaped Emo Rap: An Excerpt from Donna-Claire’s “CRYBABY”

Donna-Claire’s new book is available for pre-order now and out on January 21st, 2025, via Permuted Press.

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"this is a man who had options. he could have been almost anything he wanted to be. and the thing he ultimately chose to do with his life, after suffering a debilitating injury, was to shoot the CEO of united healthcare."

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2y ago

A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...

nothing underscores the fundamental incoherence between automated technology and creativity more than when i quote a sentence by like joan didion or j.g. ballard or someone in a google doc and it does a little squiggly line to suggest that something about it is wrong