Robert
@robertd1.bsky.social
(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash
I still haven't found one article that even analyses the songs beyond the two huge singles. Look at these lyrics, these are outstanding. This is the mountain-top of Bowie lyric writing. The engineered reverberating dry marginality of the scene coupled with the economical scarcity of language. Jesus
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I still haven't found one article that even analyses the songs beyond the two huge singles. Look at these lyrics, these are outstanding. This is the mountain-top of Bowie lyric writing. The engineered reverberating dry marginality of the scene coupled with the economical scarcity of language. Jesus
I was wondering why 'The Conformity Gate' Stranger Thing's ending theory rang a bell, it's just the ending of Tarkovsky's Solaris.
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I was wondering why 'The Conformity Gate' Stranger Thing's ending theory rang a bell, it's just the ending of Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Just one of those books that take an awful long time to actually pull the trigger on & buy. Been on the radar for probably two decades. Happy to have it at last.
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Just one of those books that take an awful long time to actually pull the trigger on & buy. Been on the radar for probably two decades. Happy to have it at last.
I live in Belgium and this TV show finished TWENTY TWO years ago
January 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I live in Belgium and this TV show finished TWENTY TWO years ago
Bowie was everything to me from my early to late twenties. The only thing I want to post is my love of this book. It's by far the most complete look at his last 5 years, going beyond the shock of his death which I feel has overshadowed a lot of the actual music. No Bowie fan will regret reading this
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Bowie was everything to me from my early to late twenties. The only thing I want to post is my love of this book. It's by far the most complete look at his last 5 years, going beyond the shock of his death which I feel has overshadowed a lot of the actual music. No Bowie fan will regret reading this
He's only mentioned 5 times according to the index. Happy to take pics and send John. Here is one (the only one I recall):
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
He's only mentioned 5 times according to the index. Happy to take pics and send John. Here is one (the only one I recall):
All this oil-based tension is sending me back to this book. A wild treatise about oil as a conscious entity trying to overtake reality.
"Recall, however, that they spoke always of a buried terrestrial sun which must be exhumed, a rotting sun oozing black flame, the black corpse of the sun.”
"Recall, however, that they spoke always of a buried terrestrial sun which must be exhumed, a rotting sun oozing black flame, the black corpse of the sun.”
January 7, 2026 at 2:36 PM
All this oil-based tension is sending me back to this book. A wild treatise about oil as a conscious entity trying to overtake reality.
"Recall, however, that they spoke always of a buried terrestrial sun which must be exhumed, a rotting sun oozing black flame, the black corpse of the sun.”
"Recall, however, that they spoke always of a buried terrestrial sun which must be exhumed, a rotting sun oozing black flame, the black corpse of the sun.”
Don Delillo topical as always
January 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Don Delillo topical as always
It's a shame that each of these is outrageously unaffordable now. Lookout Cartridge in particular is one of the transatlantic bridges of experimental literature from the US to England. Its narrative and thematic usage of Stonehenge is the best I've read. One of the few US authors who gets England
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It's a shame that each of these is outrageously unaffordable now. Lookout Cartridge in particular is one of the transatlantic bridges of experimental literature from the US to England. Its narrative and thematic usage of Stonehenge is the best I've read. One of the few US authors who gets England
Probably going to try and re-read this soon. No reason ...
January 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Probably going to try and re-read this soon. No reason ...
Me when reading anything
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Me when reading anything
Wow, thank you for tracking that down. It wasn't the passage i remembered, so I had to go page by page to find it. It's in essay 'Narrative Tone & Form' on pg308. The section on Gertrude Stein is pg309. Thank you for your time hunting this for me because my initial point I was responding to.. 1/2
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Wow, thank you for tracking that down. It wasn't the passage i remembered, so I had to go page by page to find it. It's in essay 'Narrative Tone & Form' on pg308. The section on Gertrude Stein is pg309. Thank you for your time hunting this for me because my initial point I was responding to.. 1/2
Reading the transcripts of the recent case of a tech worker who murdered his mother after positive reinforcement from ChatGPT and can't help but think that the next layer of the echo chamber is the echo cocoon where every interaction is an intensifying of the fortress of one's own mind - well or not
December 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reading the transcripts of the recent case of a tech worker who murdered his mother after positive reinforcement from ChatGPT and can't help but think that the next layer of the echo chamber is the echo cocoon where every interaction is an intensifying of the fortress of one's own mind - well or not
The heel turn complete
December 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The heel turn complete
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
December 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
Winter has truly begun
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Winter has truly begun
There's a tract just for you
December 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
There's a tract just for you
Only one Shropshire sinkhole
December 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Only one Shropshire sinkhole
The union of all my pet obsessions. Jean Ray, the theft of the Just Judges panel, and Egyptian mythology. And booooy is it stupid and underwhelming
December 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The union of all my pet obsessions. Jean Ray, the theft of the Just Judges panel, and Egyptian mythology. And booooy is it stupid and underwhelming
Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??
Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it looks absolutely demented
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it looks absolutely demented
I was doing a chronological read through of Joseph McElroy up until maybe 3 years ago. Think I might pick it up again. I got the monster in the pack next.
December 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I was doing a chronological read through of Joseph McElroy up until maybe 3 years ago. Think I might pick it up again. I got the monster in the pack next.