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Wayne Gooderham
@wbgooderham.bsky.social
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Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social‬. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · Nov 14
Had a blast/went a bit mad writing this for @thequietus.bsky.social
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Oct 23
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks

The Strange World Of… Lou Reed

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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 16h
Let the Severance S2 Rewatch commence!
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 17h
Rats.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 18h
Actually, mine’s 53 not 5. (Couldn’t see complete pic when posting!)
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 18h
Is that your actual ticket? Wonder if only the first 5 were misprinted John Cake???
Ticket for VU @ Forum 05/06/93 featuring John Cake
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 2d
The audio versions of the early diaries are my go-to comfort listens* whenever I get too sick to get out of bed...

* them n Paul Temple.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 2d
See It, Say It, Sort It/ed.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
The sidelining of Yule was my biggest beef. They managed to find screentime for Richman, Reed’s sister and old childhood friends, but not Yule. Made me very cross!
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
The first Tindersticks album had a similar effect on me.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
Y’know what, have tried n tried n tried with Double Neg but it’s never really clicked. (But shall try n try n try again!)
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
Street Hassle (if we’re counting live albums) and The Blue Mask (if we’re not) are both pretty great.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
I shall go seek when so inclined (sincerely!)
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 4d
He’s one of my blind spots, I’m afraid (I know, I know…)
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Easily done!
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
It takes a LONG time to settle down (over a hundred pages!)
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
And 68 year old Mr Hundert from Ethan Canin's (really quite brilliant) The Palace Thief:

"I was sixty-eight years old – yes, perhaps, too old to be headmaster – but I could still walk three miles before dinner..."

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Sixty-Eight Years Old – Mr Hundert
I spent the most of that day and the next one sitting at my desk in my study, watching through the window as the school wound down like a clock spring toward the strange, bird-filled calm of that s…
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
New addition to The Project: 60 year-old Ben Crader from Saul Bellow's (really quite difficult) More Die of Heartbreak:

"... no Romeo and Juliet has ever been written for lovers sixty years old..."

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Sixty Years Old – Ben Crader
“… You speak of my child side, as if I should still be working on my development. But no Romeo and Juliet has ever been written for lovers sixty years old. I have to admit that there’s …
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Just noticed HUGE already-killed spider on bedroom floor. Turns out this guy has some practical uses after all…
Ernie the Cat taking some “time out” after Spider Kill…
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
There’s not much in it, certainly…
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Yeah, it might be my fave too. What I love most about it is the SEQUENCING. One of best sequenced albums *ever* sez I!
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Might be my fave REM song.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
*Finally!* (paging @rolandbates.bsky.social) milesdavis.lnk.to/TCPN_Live196...
Miles Davis
Listen to content by Miles Davis.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
He says he only really likes the “American novels” but am trying to persuade him to give Despair a go…
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Contact sheet reject. “Intimidatingly serious” apparently…
Ernie the Cat looking “intimidatingly serious”
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 5d
Posing for his author’s profile pic again…
Ernie the Cat posing for his author’s profile pic. Again.
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Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social · 6d
Combination of listening to the new Geese album while reading Steven Hyden’s There Was Nothing You Could Do means I now have this song on repeat. (It’s all about the SHOES, man…) youtu.be/Nv7qiB8Q_cM
Drive All Night
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic
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