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Rick Burin

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I write stuff (i Paper, Empire, Sight & Sound, Guardian, Line of Best Fit, Indicator Blu-ray). I like old movies, old books, old buildings and new music. Rep’d by The North Lit Agency.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · Aug 11

I sat down with my favourite writer, and her band. We talked about love and language and healing and sex. inews.co.uk/culture/musi...

Big Thief: ‘We want to take the shame out of sex. It’s been trashed in our culture’

The alt-folk band say their latest album is 'a record about everything': birth and death, grief, love and longing – and reclaiming the gentler side of lovemaking

inews.co.uk

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 32m

Pop has an absolutely enormous wang for no reason, like Rory Stewart.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 34m

Our family have all been reading WSC since the ‘80s, means a lot to me.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 36m

No, Tony the Tiger, not Tony Robinson.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 37m

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 50m

Nice

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 51m

@mgcroadster.bsky.social Thanks John. ❤️

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 55m

You’re welcome

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 56m

Glenn Frankel’s book on its making is excellent if you want to dig deeper in that direction.

High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 58m

A few thoughts on High Noon, the film for our times. boxd.it/biZCvt

A ★★★★★ review of High Noon (1952)

Sort of a classic Western, sort of a psychological thriller, but above all a profound treatise on hypocrisy, cowardice and duty. For that reason, it is probably more relevant now than at any time sinc...

boxd.it

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

And then honey comes out, right?

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

👍🏻 I think you’d like Hours Were the Birds: it’s more straight folk and audible! Bright Future’s more accessible than songs and abysskiss too.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Do one of his catchphrases at him, put him at ease :)

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

“Governments aren’t their people, so if the people also wouldn’t mind shoving a bit of cash this way too that’d be grand, cheers”

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Good lord that is some false equivalence, actually makes me quite angry

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 1h

This is such a load of disingenuous bullshit. ‘Governments aren’t their people’ - ok but the Saudi government are paying you?

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

I used it in my writing workshop yesterday, to illustrate alliteration and assonance

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

My bff @cbuckthorn.bsky.social got me a mug once and if you point your phone at it, your phone plays this song

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

She wrote this when she was 22. Obscene open.spotify.com/track/0YHjE6...

Indiana

open.spotify.com

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

I found his writing a bit too folksy and vague but he seemed like a sweet guy and he loved da movies.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Ah apologies

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Dylan, Joni and Elvis Costello too, but was thinking living and still firing on all/most/some/any cylinders

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

It’s Adrianne Lenker. Thx.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

That is very funny

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1h

Someone I knew in real life cut me off completely because I said Judy Murray turning up to watch her son work every day was weird.

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