(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clashhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu7ndy5mts2bThis goes so goddamn hard. Billy Cobham is a revelation to me #nowplaying29 Aug 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu7ndy5mts2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu67h3ajis2jWatching The Shards again. Loving The Shards again. A choice snippet. Bret's girlfriend desperately trying to connect with him: I got you this book, I know how much you love Stephen King. It's a first edition. Bret: it came out last month, they're all first editions.28 Aug 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu67h3ajis2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu62fwmgrs2jWas talking with someone about David Bowie's 'Dirty Boys', and you have all these obscure references to what "Tobacco Road" refers to. Some 1930s American novel, a blues standard - but surely, it's Only Fools and Horses right?28 Aug 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu62fwmgrs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu5aaw7q4s2wPreach man! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5aaw7q4s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu5aaw7q4s2wPreach man! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5aaw7q4s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu57tyzpn22wSitting down with this to just feel the universality28 Aug 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu57tyzpn22whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu3sljjo522wThe first album I ever got was The Slim Shady LP. My dad bought a snide from the guy doing the rounds at the pub. I got it during the summer when I was 9 and I remember being petrified I was going to start swearing in class when I went back.27 Aug 2026 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3sljjo522whttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mu3o7667qk2fScott Walker 4 is to popular music what Warlock is to the western literary genre. Total reimaginings.27 Aug 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3o7667qk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtzeayzhfc2zListening to MPTL Microplastics record for first time in weeks. Still the best album of the year for me - a vital treatise on the accelerating synthetic replacement of love, empathy, and justice; all seeping through the glow of the screen. Read my full review here: https://open.substack.com/pub/urblindspot/p/mptl-microplastics-sod-in-heaven?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=h2hv4 [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzeayzhfc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtzbswa6nk2zHappy to see Jim Legxacy's second mixtape getting a physical release. He's the only current UK artist I believe delivers on the potential of the moment. Listen to 'Amenesia111' with its sweeping loops scratched by dusty vinyl static and the disappearance of the real in the fictional. Exceptional.26 Aug 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzbswa6nk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtyyivofzs2zCaught in a ★ loop again last night. It is among many other things, responsible for the last great music video - for the titular track. Watch it again, it's astounding. Utterly astounding. The merging of Ziggy Stardust, Major Tom, and David Bowie in the black star. https://youtu.be/kszLwBaC4Sw?is=BeZnRYKAIRkrwdo-26 Aug 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyyivofzs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mty3mw3m322zRIP Dolly! On the Suffolk angle, I remember when Amy Winehouse died, the local press ran with "Amy Winehouse, who once considered relocating to Suffolk, has died". The whole press run of Winehouse's potential move there was great "They tried to make me move to Suffolk - but u said no, no, no". [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mty3mw3m322zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtwtxds5vk2zAfter enjoying Inferno, been making my way back through Boards of Canada albums & got to Geogaddi. Immense. I have clearly missed an entire slipstream. Was particularly interesting to hear 'Alpha & Omega', the song that Bowie said influenced the ostensibly great unreleased song from ★, 'Somewhere'.25 Aug 2026 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwtxds5vk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtwqf5teoc2zForgot to post that I finished this a week or so ago. Wholly different to The Doloriad. Almost psychopathic in its poise. Deeply thematic, emotionally splintered, an absolute joy. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwqf5teoc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtwe737kjk2zForgive me. But this did nothing for me as a book. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwe737kjk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mrvbdrcdf22fA long-read about London as a theme in 20th century Belgian 'strange fiction'. Told through the lens of author Jean Ray & the first English translation of novel The Last Canterbury Tales by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social. Takes in Machen, Symbolism, WW1, & dreams. https://open.substack.com/pub/urblindspot/p/the-london-of-the-imagination?r=h2hv4&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web30 Jul 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvbdrcdf22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtvkj22ows2zIn the age of AI search slop, the only books I get genuinely enthused by are specialist dictionaries now25 Aug 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvkj22ows2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtvigqfmss2zNot a one-liner, but the pinnacle of comedy for me: "Wow, a houseboat! You know, the great thing is if you don't like your neighbors, you can just pull up the anchor and sail someplace else". [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvigqfmss2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtty46fvtk26William S. Burroughs recounts meeting Beckett in Berlin and gives a fine reading of the master.24 Aug 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtty46fvtk26https://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtrqc5m4f22lRe-reading The Dolaroid by Missouri Williams before bed. It's really one of the most confident debuts. Pure Beckett, pure Kavan.23 Aug 2026 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrqc5m4f22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtrjrx76ms2lThis is an absolute heavyweight. I never knew he employed an altered version of the cut-up called the fold-in method for this book. It's taking a full page, folding it in half and combining it with another half of a page. So the story hopped across pages and created a weird network. Genius. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Aug 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrjrx76ms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtrapaydtc2lNewcastle and Liverpool are the two teams who always have a barnstormer whenever they play each other. The game is an institution of EPL.23 Aug 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrapaydtc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtqp3tk7fc2lToday's flea-market find.23 Aug 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtqp3tk7fc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtpe5wxc6k26The one and true adaptation of American Psycho22 Aug 2026 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtpe5wxc6k26https://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mtp7wr4vnk2sEveryone knows it, but still, just the most astonishing thing https://youtu.be/sjzZh6-h9fM?is=ZWTb3-RkUqBp7iaP22 Aug 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp7wr4vnk2s