Pleasures Of May (by Robert Macfarlane)
By Robert Macfarlane; “Well now, what have been the multiple pleasures of May? May for me is the month of outdoor swimming: the first time in each year when it’s warm enough to swim rather than just to plunge in, screech, and haul out. The month when the lidos open in Cambridge (on Jesus Green [...]
Pleasures Of May
May The Shield season 6 on DVD the Santogold LP Paul Weller “22 Dreams” John Head “Crocodiles” Big Tench Nuisance Carp George Plember 350 Miles (An Essex Journey) Electribe 101 “Talking With Myself” (Knuckles mix) Cherry Ghost getting an Ivor Bill Drummond and Chris Watson saying yes Rocket Science any song by The Honeys “Eels [...]
Lush Life
26 May 2008 // Books
Found out this morning that one of my favorite writers, Richard Price, has a new novel just out in the States. Reasons I love Richard Price; his books, “The Wanderers” – ’50′s teenage street life in The Bronx as soundtracked by Dion DiMucci. Made into a great film by Philip Kaufman. Plus, “Clockers”, 80′s NJ [...]
Taught By The River
ja once more you stalk the concrete brooks, shadow fishing, casting at the moon. is that the thrift shop where i used to get my breeches and elliot symack knitware? in my day there was a tackleshop in kentish town. john’s tackle? for close season junkies, sundries for the vulnerable, beside a petrol garage after [...]
Alan Sillitoe
24 May 2008 // Books
from The Guardian words; John Crace, Photo; Eamonn McCabe There’s a great story about Alan Sillitoe that’s always done the rounds. He’s hanging out in Mallorca in the late 50s, writing six or seven unpublished novels, when he asks fellow expat Robert Graves to do him a favour and read his latest effort. The distinguished [...]
Raising Sand Live
23 May 2008 // Music
For a while back there, I worried that I was alone last year in wishing that Robert Plant would knit off the Zeppelin reunion and get himself out on the road with Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett. On the evidence of a gig I recently witnessed, I very much doubt I was. For two [...]
Guilt Free Beer
Been a while since we’ve posted a ‘Caught By The Liver’ so here goes… Much as I try to live my life as eco-consciously as possible, annoyingly there’s always a concession to be made when it comes to beer, and trying to work out the air miles (beer miles?) that a bottle of Little Creatures [...]
Pistol Shrimp & Water Song
21 May 2008 // Music
WATER SONG This is a exciting and immersive composition based on recordings by Chris Watson, who is arguably Britain’s leading wildlife sound recordist. Water Song captures the rhythmic beat of individual drops seeping through cracks and dripping off stalactites in the glow worms caves of Waitomo in New Zealand, the chattering gurgle of a mountain [...]
Drive-By-Chicken
dp whilst you were perfecting the art of the drive-by, french style, i was out wandering the old english close season, the only map the one i was making up as i walked along. leaving the heath behind i headed down the hill past the ghost site of fields tackle shop on highgate road the [...]
Thought For The Week
I like this quote. It was given to the writer Sean O’ Hagen by the psychologist and author Adam Phillips, when he asked him what would be the single thing that might make us more content in our ever accelerating culture….. “We need to find the time to daydream and be bored, and to see [...]
Caught by the River