ben

source says no vision, just plain old greed

[ben @notasfarwest]

read a story about oliver sacks looking for an iridium cube that i dont think is online anymore. the part i remember is they go to a refinery (?) staffed by russians but they refuse to talk to the writer of the piece. motive credited to "the russian aversion to being described"

[ben @notasfarwest]

@FrayneJack34043 I was lucky to be at this gig where he was still working out the solo piano arrangementsm one to be annoying about to the youth of the future https://t.co/QhPurXSvFG

[ben @notasfarwest]

can xue or murnane would be good. they're not gonna give it to tommy p, would have happened by now imo

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

Nobel Lit Prize odds...

I don't exactly know how they price this market unless there are leaks but it's v exciting to see Murakami and Pynchon so high today...

announcement on Thursday 7am EDT

[ben @notasfarwest]

@brianonhere running down by m john harrison, land deal by gerald murnane, funes the memorious by borges

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

Ordered to dig my own grave, I take my time, do a thorough job, really get fancy with it. Clearly impressed, my assailant asks if I'd be willing to dig his grave too.

[david c. porter (read NTTN) @toomuchistrue]

it's very important to have one to three albums where you're the only person in the world that still cares about them and knows they exist

[ben @notasfarwest]

@hate_nostalgia

[ben @notasfarwest]

@hate_nostalgia too specific to be famous, possibly the best thing you can be

[ben @notasfarwest]

@hate_nostalgia one side of my family are from the wirral so their wilfully minor local refs always hit hard

[ben @notasfarwest]

@hate_nostalgia peter gabriel wishes he wrote the second verse of this but the lord in his wisdom gave it to nigel blackwell

[ben @notasfarwest]

same idea but limited only to the 21st century is much more revealing abt my teenage years lol

[ben @notasfarwest]

roughly in order of when I first heard them

[ben @notasfarwest]

@ekanerva i'm also not from the USA, but i enjoyed receiving the line as just a really odd image before being repeatedly educated lol

[ben @notasfarwest]

@TwinsAlmanac look at the rest of my posts and tell me if you think im "engagement farming" lol

[ben @notasfarwest]

"we got a kinder gentler machine gun hand" possibly the pinnacle of neil's weirdly deft writing where it doesn't make any sense and also fits perfectly

[Bernie Thoma @BernardThoma_]

happy 37 year anniversary to this insanity

[ben @notasfarwest]

@JerryTurin @Hughjohnson I understand the kinder gentler politics thing I just think it's a very strange construction and Neil would do this sort of blunt thing regularly. "the band played the old country waltz...to me"

[ben @notasfarwest]

@Hughjohnson thats the difference between you and me dave

[ben @notasfarwest]

@dantbedenied amazing band, plus the guitarist later recorded my fav cover of all time https://t.co/r2RyYfGm7e

[ben @notasfarwest]

the sam cooke album "twistin the night away" contains, as well as the (perfect) title track, songs called twistin in the kitchen with dinah (sort of like i saw mummy kissing santa claus), the twist, and twistin in the old town tonight. they knew what they had and they went for it

[ben @notasfarwest]

@roryisconfused the mel's hole ep is foundational for me