Author Archives: Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
Thankfully Blue Eye Samurai overcomes all the limitations of cultural projection and appropriation
Need an escape from the grim coverage of Israel victimising Gaza, or, on the benign end of the grim spectrum, that sad melter on your street covering their house with Christmas tat and lights in early November? Well Blue Eye … Continue reading
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Tagged 8 ½, Amazon Prime, Americanization, Anime, Blue Eye Samurai, Chernobyl, Christmas tat, Christopher Nolan, Disney, Dubbing is a no, Edo, Fellini, Gaza, Guardian columnist, HBO, I cannot translate Japanese to English or English to Japanese, Incel twat, Israel, Japan, Kill Bill, Kurosawa, Masi’s verbal diarrhoea, Miyasaki, Netflix, Seven Samurai, Tenet, Western influence
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Song Of The Day – Strong Out Deeper Than The Night by Les Rallizes Denudes
From the album “Club Citta February 17 1993” (2023)
Song Of The Day – Automatic North by Richard Youngs
From the single “Automatic North” (2022)
Posted in Song Of The Day
Tagged Automatic North, Bandcamp, Bleepy, Cambridge, Electro, Richard Youngs, Song Of The Day, Squeeky
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Why the latest Israel and Hamas conflict has convinced me to quit Twitter for good
Malcolm X’s famous quote is roughly sixty years old, but even he would be astonished by social media’s corrosiveness on political discourse. The nasty, polarised response online to this new round of Israeli-Palestine hostility has clarified that all media platforms … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Alhi, Channel 4, Christopher Hitchens, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Joe Biden, Keir Starmer, LBC, Malcolm X, Not calling Twitter X, Palestine, Sam Harris, Twitter
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Song Of The Day – Brain Mark by Jackie Mittoo
From the compliation album ‘Jah Rock Style’ (2005)
Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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