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Postdoctoral researcher working on pop music and performance, teaching media archaeology & doing dramaturgy

Brussels
Joined June 2009
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Ten years since one of the first people I was sort of seeing in Berlin bailed on me and I went to see The Last Shadow Puppets instead – Summertime (still) makes promises it knew it couldn't keep, the fairytale was climbing on a mountain far too steep youtube.com/watch?v=j7qmADw2…
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― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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I'd love to read a good analysis of how the shoe hybrids that we have been seeing (sneakerinas and snoafers) are a sign of the times
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Trying to wrap up the dissertation
December is for Proustmaxxing. Staying in your room. Sleeping by day, writing by night, yearning incessantly, overthinking every little thing, all whilst feeling rather ill.
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Finally finished @LaurenElkin's Scaffolding after carrying it around in my handbag all summer, trying to savour every bit of it. So special to stumble in its final pages upon a Chris Kraus I Love Dick passage that struck me so deeply all those years ago
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Thinking that the long-announced indie sleaze revival would work entirely in my favour, I now read that Charli XCX is bringing back Bon Iver -- a girl can't have no fun
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Virgo season kicked off in true Virgo fashion: tears rolling down my face uncontrollably during the 2-hour prep driving class, but still passed my driving test afterwards somehow. Beep beep!
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Me proofreading my latest draft
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They should bring out the kids dressed as Serge Gainsbourg
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Mood
"Give yourself a break from the draft then return with fresh eyes!" Fresh eyes:
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Brian Molko trying not to rant over everyone and everything level: impossible
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Introducing Jane B. par Agnès V (1988) alongside the telefilm Melody (1971) last week for a sold out KASKcinema
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Twee minuten Mia Doornaert over Gainsbourg op #deafspraak en meteen m'n voorraad gezucht voor de rest van het jaar opgebruikt. Gainsbourg is één van de cases in het onderzoek waarin ik het begrip persona in popmuziek herbekijk (en ik woon op 15 tramhaltes van de VRT, maar bon)
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Om maar te zeggen: het zou ook een prima aanleiding kunnen zijn om eens wat langer na te denken over wat we aanvangen met personencultus, problematische figuren, provocatie en - mijn eeuwige stokpaardje - persona.
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I'm a VERY laid back academic. I only worry about two things: every single aspect of my career and how I'm doing compared to every other academic on earth
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one of the things that fascinates me about taylor swift is how dead clothes look on her. she can be covered in sequins but fail to channel camp or glam, in a form-fitting black dress but fail to be sensual, dressed down and fail to look effortless time.com/6342806/person-of-t…
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Definitely benefitted from the sirtaki that was played during the aquabike session in the pool whilst doing my own laps
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Was ist Pulp Theory? In ihrem Essay für POP Online schreibt Eva Stubenrauch über Theorieaneignung als populäre Kultur. Es geht um Dönermarx, lustige Philosophen T-Shirts und die Suhrkamp Basecap. pop-zeitschrift.de/2023/11/1…
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