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Second richly cultural day in a row. After a middlingly interesting Gestalt workshop on ‘the moving body’, I went with Will to see some...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Captial Dilemma, Michael Z. Wise
Living as I did within the giant building site that has passed as Berlin for the last 10 years, I suppose I was a first hand witness of...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
No, he thought, they got him with the tire iron.
Back from a 2 week trip to Toronto and Miami. While I was away a young guy living on my street was stabbed to death walking home one...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
The untold want by life and land ne’er granted
Alex brought round “Now, Voyager” and forced me to watch it. I’ve never been mad on black and white movies. I watch them out of a sense...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Jonathan Harvey and the beautiful terror
I haven’t written here about a concert for ages. But I haven’t been to a concert like the one this evening for ages. Ever, in fact. I...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
“This quartet is dedicated to all astronauts”
I know I’m starting to seem rather obsessive. But I promise this will be the last posting in a while about Karlheinz Stockhausen. But I...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Foreign fluid exchange (mainly sweat)
FOREIGN FLUID EXCHANGE (Mainly Sweat) Been away on two epic filming shifts – one in Antwerp, Amsterdam and the Hague, the other in...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Kid Galahad
Kid Galahad After wondering in from the Artic cold sweeping down Upper Street, Treena and I wandered into the seemingly brand-new...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
ausdehnung/einschränkung
“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
After Brexit: Let’s leave our bubble chambers and try and look our neighbours in the eye
It’s been a bruising few days for us Britons. When I woke up on Friday morning, having driven a 300 mile round trip during filming to...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
“I am teaching myself perfect freedom…the great first principle is that the clamour of t
My trip to Brazil was comically short. Only four and a half days before I got in a cab and rode back to Salvador airport, changed my...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
RVT
After a dithery early evening of abortive dates, I got in the car and drove down South to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern to meet up with Gary....
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Sigmund Freud and the other Klein
All this study in psychotherapy is humdinging fantastic. I don’t remember being so completely absorbed in anything since I discovered...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
The Man Who Drank The Universe
here. It’s a simple low-res file for quicker streaming and easier downloading. Enjoy.NOTE:We weren’t able to fly over to New York in 2004...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
his sun-shade making? its water-snake smell?
II.3 — Sumangala’s Mother {vv. 23-24} So freed! So freed! So thoroughly freed am I — from my pestle, my shameless husband & his...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
the magic little iphone
look! How natty I can post direct from my iPhone. All I need to know now is how to send pictures here. And I notice – excitedly – that...
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