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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 4h

Master of Osservanza: "Saint Anthony Abbot Tempted by a Heap of Gold" (the gold is gone from the painting, but it used to be there).

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 21h

Stephen Shore

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 23h

"He's very like himself."

From the archive: Seamus Heaney writes to Rosemary Goad at Faber from Berkeley, California in September 1970

John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 4d

Ahoghill 1973

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 8d

Please enjoy Marie Osmond (the smurfette of the Osmonds) discussing and reciting Dadaist sound poetry
youtu.be/USTQgu229Wc?...

ripleys-_dada.mp4

YouTube video by das ubuibi

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 9d

Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made in 1679

Last night, while the home team lost the big game on TVs at a local dive bar, my noisy rock band opened for a chamber pop ensemble. Electric guitars and feedback gave way to classical acoustics, violin, piano, accordion, and even a saw.

www.openculture.com

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 10d

Belfast poetry reading 1981.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 10d

Mishima Closing. youtube.com/watch?v=lkJj...

Philip Glass - Mishima Closing | Multiphonic Saxophone Quartet (Minimal Music/Film Music)

YouTube video by Multiphonic Quartett

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 10d

W.S.Merwin

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 11d

I'll see you and raise you - The Heubeck Years.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13d

My son Eoin racing in the Donegal Cross Country Championship in the Rosses. He went on to win it.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 14d

The road to the sea this morning Kilcar, Donegal.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 16d

Brutal.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 18d

Hard to know what to say about this!

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 19d

On my way to Belfast by train from Derry this morning. No other city in Ireland comes close to its setting.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · Aug 26

Quagswagging [KWAG-swag-ing]
(n.)
- The act of shaking from side to side or up and down. An awkward or clumsy movement.
(adj.)
- Pertaining to something that shakes or quakes.
(v.) (Quagswag)
- To shake to and fro in a heavy or unsteady way.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 22d

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AC/DC- Rocker [Live in Colchester, England, Oct. 28, 1978] (Pro Shot)

YouTube video by TheACDCDoctor

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 23d

David Byrne covers Whitney.
youtu.be/izx8J6U7xzo?...

David Byrne - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" [Live from Austin, TX]

YouTube video by Live From Austin TX

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 24d

Ardoyne as I remember it as a child at Holy Cross Boys. My granny lived on Kingston Street. A number of streets in Ardoyne were named after places in the Caribbean.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 25d

There's nothing like a poem about a lazy, drunken evening to make someone from 1000 years ago feel like a contemporary.

(Poem by Li Qingzhao, trans. Wendy Chen)

As in a Dream

Remember that day
spent on the stream,
watching the sunset glaze
the pavilion.

So drunk, we could not find
our way back.

It was late when we had enough.
We turned the boat around

and were caught, accidentally, in the deep
tangle of lotus roots.

Rowing through,
rowing through -

startling, from the banks,
herons.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 25d

Three Days of the Condor. A cracker.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 26d

Just arrived. Looking forward to reading this. @lilliputpress.bsky.social

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 27d

They'd sour your shite is something you'd hear in Donegal - meaning someone is a complete dose.

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