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Joined May 2008
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Recently on @mubinotebook:
🔹The annual Cinephile Gift Guide, @adriancurry's best movie posters of 2024 round-up, Robert Barry (@monsterbobby) on the film soundtracks of 2024
🔹Cassie da Costa (@tooearnest) on the work of NICKEL BOYS director RaMell Ross, Celluloid Liberation Front on the films of Jocelyne Saab, Amanda Chen (@manderpillar) on Trương Minh Quý and Trinh T. Minh-ha, Mark Asch (@MarkAschParody) on American right-wing operative Roy Cohn's many on-screen depictions
→ mubi.com/notebook
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"I imagine [Harmony] Korine and his crew approach cinema much like [Brian] Eno’s friends thought of sound back in the 1970s... It’s a score that is as compelling as it is subdued; it bumbles along throughout, but with few of the usual gear shifts that characterize mainstream film scoring: no sudden drops, no shrieking stings. Instead, it maintains a consistent emotional tenor, becoming—in Eno’s words—continuous, a surrounding. Even the gunshots are not so loud as to poke out from the overall aural wallpaper."
Robert Barry (@monsterbobby) writes on the film soundtracks of 2024: mubi.com/notebook/posts/a-co…
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I find it interesting that when publications hold favour for artists they are quick to use the quote/rank/opinion for their social assets and promotion, but when these same platforms are critical they weaponise their platform and fandoms and call said pubs “irrelevant”
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In Harmony Korine's AGGRO DR1FT, Osgood Perkins’s LONGLEGS, Luca Guadagnino's CHALLENGERS and more, music is just one aspect of a meticulous sonic design.
Robert Barry (@monsterbobby) surveys the film soundtracks of 2024.
mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/a…
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Interview with Charlemagne Palestine in @vanmusicmag. He plays an epic new work for organ on Sunday 13 Dec 'SCHLINGENNN TRICKSTERRR
BLÄNGENNN!!!!!!!!'
7.30pm start on the dot
van-magazine.com/mag/charlem…
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VAN #383 💌
Pianist Aeham Ahmad on the fall of Assad • @operasighs has the latest from Belgrade, where last week, a motorist drove into a group of protesting musicians • Charlemagne Palestine speaks to @monsterbobby • A Classical Kink Playlist
van-magazine.com/
Paging @lb_southwark you should be doing this too!
Hackney Council to power council flats with solar energy using new microgrids
➡️ ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hac…
Hackney Council is to start fitting solar cells onto the roofs of council flats, with the electricity fed directly into the flats instead of sent to the national gr...
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Macron built up the far right and attacked the left. He thought it would give voters nowhere else to go but him. He pursued austerity and copied Le Pen's anti-migrant rubbish. It has ended in disaster for him and chaos for France.
Lessons to be learnt.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxz…
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Our MP continues to be a huge embarrassment to all in Bermondsey. Harder to get away with the 'Corbyn made me do it' claptrap now. Retire already Neil! End the misery!
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I am deeply alarmed by the raid on the Kurdish Community Centre by large numbers of riot police.
The Centre is an important cultural space for the diverse and inclusive communities of North London. It provides support for refugees who have fled war and persecution, and a space for the Kurdish community to come together. Its services and classes are a lifeline for many.
Attacks on one community's institutions or its democratic freedoms is an attack on us all.
I am proud to represent a constituency with a vibrant Kurdish community. They have changed our part of London for the better – and their resolve is an inspiration to millions of us seeking to build a more just and peaceful world.
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So get this. New analysis shows that:
🚜 Non-farmers were responsible for 56 per cent of farmland purchases last year
🚜 With 400,000 hectares of agricultural land taken out of use for farming in the same year
🚜 Experts link this to financial advice that recommends the potential tax breaks of investing in farmland
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After not endorsing Harris, Rashida Tlaib secures win in Michigan middleeasteye.net/news/us-el…
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As his 24-hour film ‘The Clock’ returns to MoMA this month, Christian Marclay talks to Robert Barry (@monsterbobby) about what really makes him tick
the fact that we get quite regular high-profile cyber attacks on things like NHS hospitals, the British Library, & the Internet Archive, but never, like, insurance companies or the offices of rightwing politicians really makes it hard to believe in the existence of 'good' hackers
does the bit in the trailer here where it says "MONUMENTAL" in big letters with the names of a whole bunch of major publications underneath mean that all the critics at all those different magazines all used the same word to describe the film? Pretty embarrassing for them, if so.
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Nationalise water NOW.
BREAKING: Water companies seek even higher bill increases than first indicated
news.sky.com/story/water-com…
the two features I would most like to be able to add on to Google would be, 1, turn off the useless AI slop at the top of the search results; 2, if I type in the name of an album, always give me the bandcamp page as first result.
The plot of alien:Romulus is basically, what if a bunch of kids got stuck on the jubilee line overnight between Westminster and Canary Wharf?
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Southwark Council is seeking local people's views on the future of the Bricklayers Arms gyratory, including the potential conversion of the flyover into a tree-lined park. [Council survey closes o Sunday]
Read more ➡️ se1.news/bricklayers-arms-fl…