Seán Costello
@seanjcostello.bsky.social
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Unreasonably excited about this Jim's Twenty-One comp out now on Harriett. Their 7" is a long-time fave and I'm thrilled to tell you that there's *more*
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
@jimstwentyone.bsky.social
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
@jimstwentyone.bsky.social
Nadine, by Jim's Twenty-one
18 track album
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Unreasonably excited about this Jim's Twenty-One comp out now on Harriett. Their 7" is a long-time fave and I'm thrilled to tell you that there's *more*
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
@jimstwentyone.bsky.social
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
@jimstwentyone.bsky.social
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Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it.
@ndbooks.bsky.social
@ndbooks.bsky.social
Loved this London-set existential comedy by Aki Kaurismäki. A brilliant performance by Jean-Pierre Léaud, and the Joe Strummer cameo is a bonus.
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Loved this London-set existential comedy by Aki Kaurismäki. A brilliant performance by Jean-Pierre Léaud, and the Joe Strummer cameo is a bonus.
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The LONG LONG LONG LONG awaited first LP by @jimstwentyone.bsky.social is out today. It is an incredible artifact - one of the top mid-80s indiepop bands captured (at the time) with all their resplendent & wayward brilliance. I'm playing their 'That Means Nothing To You' on #freshingredients now!
Nadine, by Jim's Twenty-one
18 track album
harrietrecords.bandcamp.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The LONG LONG LONG LONG awaited first LP by @jimstwentyone.bsky.social is out today. It is an incredible artifact - one of the top mid-80s indiepop bands captured (at the time) with all their resplendent & wayward brilliance. I'm playing their 'That Means Nothing To You' on #freshingredients now!
Back in the C86 era I was in a band in Brussels called jim’s twenty-one. John Peel played our one EP and said, ‘They don’t sound very Belgian.’ (We didn’t, and we weren’t.)
Today finally sees the release of our debut album, Nadine. @jimstwentyone.bsky.social harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
Today finally sees the release of our debut album, Nadine. @jimstwentyone.bsky.social harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Back in the C86 era I was in a band in Brussels called jim’s twenty-one. John Peel played our one EP and said, ‘They don’t sound very Belgian.’ (We didn’t, and we weren’t.)
Today finally sees the release of our debut album, Nadine. @jimstwentyone.bsky.social harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
Today finally sees the release of our debut album, Nadine. @jimstwentyone.bsky.social harrietrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nadine
Enjoyed that most French of films noir, Lift to the Scaffold
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Enjoyed that most French of films noir, Lift to the Scaffold
Saw some wonderful work by Joash Woodrow at Gallery 108 in Harrogate 108fineart.com/artists/joas...
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Saw some wonderful work by Joash Woodrow at Gallery 108 in Harrogate 108fineart.com/artists/joas...
Winter sporting
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Winter sporting
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For Anna Seghers, #BornOnThisDay in 1900, my thoughts on TRANSIT (tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo), the striking novel behind Christian Petzold's film.
A Kafkaesque story of shifting identities in the midst of #WW2, still highly relevant today. #BookSky 💙📚 #BOTD
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A Kafkaesque story of shifting identities in the midst of #WW2, still highly relevant today. #BookSky 💙📚 #BOTD
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/t...
Transit by Anna Seghers (tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo)
Born in Germany in 1900 to a Jewish family, Anna Seghers, fled from Europe following the German invasion of France in 1940. In 1941, Seghers and her family sailed from Marseille to Mexico in 1941 w…
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November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For Anna Seghers, #BornOnThisDay in 1900, my thoughts on TRANSIT (tr. Margot Bettauer Dembo), the striking novel behind Christian Petzold's film.
A Kafkaesque story of shifting identities in the midst of #WW2, still highly relevant today. #BookSky 💙📚 #BOTD
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/t...
A Kafkaesque story of shifting identities in the midst of #WW2, still highly relevant today. #BookSky 💙📚 #BOTD
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/t...
Watched this gripping wartime noir by Powell & Pressburger
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Watched this gripping wartime noir by Powell & Pressburger
Late-autumn pastoral
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Late-autumn pastoral
Season of mists and mad-for-it Labrador
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Season of mists and mad-for-it Labrador
It had to be you… Watched the indelible Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It had to be you… Watched the indelible Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
I happen to like New York
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I happen to like New York
Low cloud on the moors
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Low cloud on the moors
Whatever happened to Natalie Prass? This, released in 2018, sounds like a classic now, and she hasn’t been heard from since… #NowPlaying #NataliePrass
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Whatever happened to Natalie Prass? This, released in 2018, sounds like a classic now, and she hasn’t been heard from since… #NowPlaying #NataliePrass
I have @jacquiwine.bsky.social to thank for recommending this astonishing novel by Dorothy B. Hughes: a gripping narrative about a man in the frame for murder that that is ultimately an indictment of America itself. If you haven’t read it, do – but don’t read any more about it before going in…
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I have @jacquiwine.bsky.social to thank for recommending this astonishing novel by Dorothy B. Hughes: a gripping narrative about a man in the frame for murder that that is ultimately an indictment of America itself. If you haven’t read it, do – but don’t read any more about it before going in…
What a day for a walk to Andy Goldsworthy’s extraordinary Hanging Stones on the North York Moors #AndyGoldsworthy
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What a day for a walk to Andy Goldsworthy’s extraordinary Hanging Stones on the North York Moors #AndyGoldsworthy
Watched this beautifully made comedy about life after trauma. A remarkable debut by actor/director Eva Victor.
October 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Watched this beautifully made comedy about life after trauma. A remarkable debut by actor/director Eva Victor.