"The Arrival of the Jarrow Marchers in London, Viewed from an Interior" (1936), Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

Pre-orders open BFI for "The Oblong Box" -- lavish cinephile release, which includes a piece by me, "Boxed-in and Bowing-Out: Michael Reeves Quits 'The Oblong Box'", exploring what Reeves got up to after "Witchfinder General": shop.bfi.org.uk/the-oblong-box…

Charli XCX/ Lorde 🟩 track "Girl, So Confusing" just phenomenal... as well as the throwback to nonstop house clubbing in the 2010s, I'm getting... LCD Soundsystem The Fall / Von Südenfed Uffie Hedkandi mixes of Booty Luv E•MO•TION-era Carly Rae Jepsen m.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3K6F…

Farewell to Dewi, seen here with John Hefin on the "Grand Slam" set, between takes one assumes...

challenging encounter with feminist installation art for junior Manchester Art Gallery, necessitating lunch with babycino at the Ivy Brasserie Spinningfields to recover

anyone polishing their pieces on the Oasis reunion / Britpop revival / back to '97... my article for the Journal of Feminist Scholarship on nascent Britpop feminism, via Riot Grrrrl / It Girls / the Wild Child / the ladette, is available here: digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewconten…

My study of British '70s screen erotica, Hotbeds of Licentiousness, now out in paperback from Berghahn Film -- 25% discount from the publisher (berghahnbooks.com/title/Halligan…), code HALL3450 til 30 Sept, ie £20. Talked about it with BBC Radio 3 "Free Thinking": bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

in the presence of an icon: Rickie Lee Jones The Stoller Hall; those fragmented beats, fractured melodies & her use of space must have had an influence on Tom Waits, right up to "Bone Machine"

'New divas “are at risk of becoming a cultural relic. There is a diva deficit right now"' says Professor Kirsty Fairclough for Jeffrey Ingold The Guardian re our Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies book 𝘿𝙞𝙫𝙖: 𝙁𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙋𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙃𝙞𝙥-𝙃𝙤𝙥: bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-978150… 💃🏾

... and here's the "Diva" book from Bloomsbury Music & Sound Studies: bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-978150…

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day" --- Morrissey implores Pope Francis to restrict clerical approvals of the wretched persistence of animal cruelty 👇

Sale Bloomsbury Academic means that 4 of my co-ed collections are £20 in paperback 👇👇

Levenshulme Antiques Village

Mid-"Lannoy Point" from RIDE New Century last night... "are there any shoegazers in the house?" asked Mark Gardener

Nos unimos a las intenciones de nuestros hermanos de la orden dominicana para orar por la salud de nuestro querido Padre Gustavo Gutiérrez

This thundering has a vintage of over a century. Thatcher's acolytes claimed it as the basis of homosexual communism, endangering the country, from the Bloomsbury Group to the Cambridge Five. Robert Jenrick's take is equally hysterical. [Extract from "Hotbeds of Licentiousness"]

Of all Fred's writing, my go-to was/is The Geopolitical Aesthetic BFI: esp on Sokurov's Days of Eclipse & Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare, with late capitalism conceptualised as extraterrestrial neocolonialism, & the films recalling Bunuel's gaze of Las Hurdes. #FredricJameson