Roy Kelly
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Beats.Beatles.Bob.Brautigan.Bloxwich. Sixties.Writer.Poet. Drugstore Fiction, Bob Dylan Dream. Clouds.The cats. The tortoise. Frayn.Stoppard.
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The very rarely-seen #journalese quadfecta. This is a back bench at the top of its game.
December 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The very rarely-seen #journalese quadfecta. This is a back bench at the top of its game.
A Substack piece on a band I haven’t heard of by someone I know very well.
substack.com/@sunsetblood...
substack.com/@sunsetblood...
Lou Kelly (@sunsetbloodyvalleys)
Next up in this series on my favourite albums of the year, the monumental new Deafheaven record. One more of these before Christmas, plus a festive treat from the archives.
substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A Substack piece on a band I haven’t heard of by someone I know very well.
substack.com/@sunsetblood...
substack.com/@sunsetblood...
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My twentieth nocturnal perambulation led me to this site-specific poem by J. H. Prynne.
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My twentieth nocturnal perambulation led me to this site-specific poem by J. H. Prynne.
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It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of 'Jeremiah Johnson' (released on this day in 1971) is pretty great too:
Classic Corner: Jeremiah Johnson — Crooked Marquee
It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of the movie (now streaming on HBO Max) is pretty great too.
crookedmarquee.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of 'Jeremiah Johnson' (released on this day in 1971) is pretty great too:
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I like how he pauses and smiles here to be sure everyone caught what a racist piece of shit he is.
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I like how he pauses and smiles here to be sure everyone caught what a racist piece of shit he is.
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
“Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”
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Apparently engaging with the EU is all about economics, while also avoiding freedom of movement. Sigh.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Apparently engaging with the EU is all about economics, while also avoiding freedom of movement. Sigh.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
Anyone hoping to rejoin has a very very long wait.
Frankly, if you're a rejoiner over 50, I'd suggest taking up stamp collecting or bird watching instead. It'll be more fulfilling.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971
#WinterSolstice
#WinterSolstice
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Inside and on top of the Wellington Arch in London - the first time I’ve been inside!
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Inside and on top of the Wellington Arch in London - the first time I’ve been inside!
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Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
If you’re not a very good present wrapper the sheer perfidy and recalcitrance of paper, sellotape and scissors always comes as a shock. They just won’t readily do what’s required. And the end of sellotape thinks it’s the Scarlet Pimpernel.
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If you’re not a very good present wrapper the sheer perfidy and recalcitrance of paper, sellotape and scissors always comes as a shock. They just won’t readily do what’s required. And the end of sellotape thinks it’s the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Happy Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer - yay!
December 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy Winter Solstice. Days will be getting longer - yay!
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Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Bought OTD in 1968: their best and most psychedelic (the two may be connected). Sunshine is the ur-rock riff but Strange Brew and the menacing We’re Going Weong are its equal. Heavy psych on Brave Ulysses
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
(Early wah wah) and the ecstatic Dance The Night Away. The rest
is blues and novelties
.
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WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
Where is Congress? Where are they?
I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.
Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!
I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵
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Craig Brown spends a whole page parodying the Telegraph in the current Private Eye but even he can't invent headlines as mad as the real ones.
December 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Craig Brown spends a whole page parodying the Telegraph in the current Private Eye but even he can't invent headlines as mad as the real ones.
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How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
Digitizing the Bob Dylan Archives and Taping Toad's Place
An interview with veteran taper and archivist Jeff Friedman
www.flaggingdown.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
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Anyone know anything about this 2003 Dylan documentary with a familiar name?
December 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Anyone know anything about this 2003 Dylan documentary with a familiar name?
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She's right! And it all comes out in the 34 minute long version Neil played on November, 20 1973:
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reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
She's right! And it all comes out in the 34 minute long version Neil played on November, 20 1973:
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
reclinernotes.com/2023/06/11/n...
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Hmm, wonder what the explanation could be?
December 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hmm, wonder what the explanation could be?
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Check my substack page! I gave in this year and posted a photo. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-few-more...
A Few More Holiday related things
And my analysis of Bob Dylan's newest Christmas light display
merrillmarkoe.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Check my substack page! I gave in this year and posted a photo. merrillmarkoe.substack.com/p/a-few-more...
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From the days of proper album covers RIP MA
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From the days of proper album covers RIP MA
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Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
Is no one checking Bob’s Christmas lights this year?
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There’s a lot to know about ‘slavery after slavery’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
December 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
There’s a lot to know about ‘slavery after slavery’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7184...
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In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, something wonderful.
December 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In the words of Oscar Hammerstein, something wonderful.
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use