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Still trying to get my head around the fact that Al Green and Jacques Lacan shared a birthday. "(Do Not Imagine For A Second That It Is Not Impossible To Mend) A Broken Heart".

Fascinating and fantastic history including the woman who went to girly clubs with Walter Benjamin. e-flux.com/notes/639907/h…

Paul Schrader, interviewed by Ian Penman. Pics by Anton Corbijn. New Musical Express, 2 October 1982. [parts 1-4/5]

“ ‘I Got a Thing’ has a definite down-home testifying sheen, but this is Gospel as sung by some ragged street-corner character, twitchy and impatient, grit and bad weather all in their face.”—Ian Penman on George Clinton’s “I Got a Thing,” from the archive 4columns.org/penman-ian/par…

Incredibly chuffed to be nominated for an ASME National Magazine Award (Reviews & Criticism) for this Harper's Magazine piece on Billie Holiday... | harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

James Pogue Matt Black “This is a ghost story of sorts, written in cycles and loops, loafers and suits, ornery protest and wired-­to-­the-­skies dance weekends.” Ian Penman on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Harper’s Magazine is a finalist in three categories for the 2025 National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Reread these outstanding pieces: “After the Deluge,” by Gary Greenberg: harpers.org/archive/2024/1… “Lady Day of the Alhambra,” by Ian Penman:

“What was it about this intensely local phenomenon—­straddling Jamaica and the Midlands—­that allowed it to become a musical Esperanto?” Ian Penman (Ian Penman) on the story of 2 Tone. harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

Jacques Rivette, Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet e Jean Narboni na cidade de Utrecht após sessão de "Crônica de Anna Magdalena Bach" no ano de 1968

'The Voice of Space' (1928) by René Magritte, probably one of the most influential science fiction images of all time

The kites of Alexander Graham Bell, 1895-1910.

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite | 24.4.25

Lovely review of Erik Satie Three Piece Suite in today's Guardian... | theguardian.com/books/2025/apr…

Satie serendipity (i): Suzanne Valadon is a key figure in Erik Satie Three Piece Suite and there's a long overdue retrospective of her work currently showing at the Centre Pompidou ... | centrepompidou.fr/fr/programme/a…

Satie serendipity (ii): rare live performance of Satie's fascinating 16+ hour work Vexations, and it falls on ... #ES3PS publication day! Couldn't have planned it better myself... | southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/vexat…

Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman — the first true musical impressionist on.ft.com/3Yb6S1t

On the Ramblings today, a simply marvellous new book by Ian Penman via Fitzcarraldo Editions - "Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite" - it's one of my books of the year!!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/cur…