Cut out Adrian's covers and tuck them in my copy. The only drag about his New Yorker work is that, a recent two pager about movies in NYC aside, he hardly writes strips these days. Been buying his stuff since the early Optic Nerve days but the New Yorker stuff (& having kids) has reduced his output.

It's overdue time for a new one but you know this exists? Lovely book.
www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...

'I accept chaos. I don't know whether chaos accepts me.' Bob Dylan. I tried to watch this one but gave up. Felt very flat but maybe it was my mood: might try again if it shows up on Film Four.

The UK got a much better version than the US but the four hour cut is even better and we'll worth seeing if you can source a download. One of my top five movies. Saw it twice the month it came out. Would love to see a proper print of the director's cut in a cinema.

I saw him in 75. It was good. Linda Lewis came on in the middle, never seen that before or since, albeit the audience adoration was cloying. He & Leonard Cohen were the only acts I saw at Liverpool Empire that didn't sign autographs at the stage door. But the Rushdie reaction finished me with him.

In English this sounds remarkably like Hunter S Thompson.

Yeah, saw Jason and Andrew at a launch event this week with Stewart Lee and found myself falling in love with the band again (after taking a sabbatical for various reasons). Seeing them for the first time since Covid next month.

I nominated it so obviously a super fan but feeling some cognitive dissonance here. Dopamine is an immense pop banger.

The trick, as I recall, was to cue up each track individually.

Come on then! Which one?

If you want to know what Greene was like in his 20s before he'd learnt to write fiction: davidbelbin.substack.com

There's always this route: I have several of these on rare but coverless firsts (and most pre-WW2 firsts are coverless because, as I'm sure you know, nearly everyone discarded dust jackets in those days, most especially lending libraries). www.dustjackets.com/advSearchRes...

because it was the first Bowie song I heard, a miss but played a lot on Radio Luxembourg (btw I was too young for Space Oddity first time round).

When Starman came along, I thought oh yeah it's that guy, he's cool. Then heard Five Years on Radio One when Ziggy came out and was totally blown away.