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Early Day Miners – “Marauder”
The Last Snow EP

Normally a very sedate band, Early Day Miners pull out the big guns on this track. Well, they’re normal-sized guns compared to everyone else, but still. Relatively big.

Bellmour: But tell me how you would be ador’d — I am very tractable.

Congreve, The Old Batchelor

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Skygreen Leopards – “The Heron”
One Thousand Bird Ceremony

One of my favorite songs, period. Just the absolute pinnacle of jangly forest-folk. From a fantastic album (their follow-up was disappointing).

What was the past of this Trevor, pugilist, traveller, and gold-digger, and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman?

Sherlock Holmes

The injury therefore that you do to a man should be such that you need not fear his revenge.

Machiavelli, The Prince

Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke (more)

Saw this at the Tate. It’s tiny.

“Is it possible to imagine modalities of radical participation on the universe of brands and at the same time present oneself as an advertising agency? Is it possible for the professionals of communication not to give up their own political ideas in carrying out their job? Guerrigiamarketing.it is still a bet that is up against demands of income and the need not to betray this projectuality.”

Now I don’t mind a little viral marketing here and there. But when advertisers start talking like that^, I start calling bullshit.