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What am I, A Deer? (opens the original)
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Did you ever see the film, Velvet Goldmine? I was, for a time as a teenager, utterly obsessed by it, not least because the band Placebo (who were my entire raison d’etre back then) had a cameo in it and when you are a teenager, or an adult of a certain flavour, it doesn’t take much for something to become the axis on which your world spins.In Velvet Goldmine there’s a scene near the beginning where Christian Bale, as Arthur, leaps up from where his face has been pressed to the TV screen in his l
Interim Update (opens the original)
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Hello sweet friends, you may not believe me but I haven’t forgotten about you or the Friday Five. The thing of it is, I’ve been ludicrously busy around the publication of Local Gods in the US and UK, as well as working towards two other deadlines.All of which means the keen eyed amongst you will have noticed there hasn’t been a Friday Five for the last couple of weeks and I’m here to tell you there won’t be one this week either, simply because all I’ve been doing is working and not really doing
Friday Five (opens the original)
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Five for FridayEvery Friday I share five things that I’ve done or seen or thought about in the previous week.Exhibition: Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing, Cecilia FionaI ended up seeing SEVEN exhibitions last week, which is a lot of art to store inside your head and it made my dreams really, really weird. I wrote about Leonora Carrington and Hilma af Klint in a previous installment, but when I got back to England, the art kept rolling and I saw five more shows, one of which was Spirals Gatherin
Friday Five (opens the original)
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Five for FridayEvery Friday I share five things that I’ve done or seen or thought about in the previous week.Play: Wild WomenLast Friday I watched a play by a company called Wild Elk, with my friend Hannah. Wild Women is “a darkly comic collection of tales… Drawing on folklore, contemporary myth and lived experience, it explores transformation as rebellion. At its heart, Wild Women asks: what should we fear most… the monster, or the woman who disappears beneath expectation?”It cycles through the
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