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I was reading how we all have a basic need to have our emotions regulated. Ideally, by our mothers. But if that was a problem – then by...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
the redundant 'it' of 'it is raining'
Been reading more Alan Watts. No one I’ve read or listened to has more succintly and pithily summed up the core ideas of Buddhist Dharma...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
A mindful musing on mindless violence
I’m still a bit dizzy from the events in London town these last few days but one thing jumped out of the disorientating static of...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
45 minutes from Kings Cross: music, ho.
A week or so ago I was phoned up by my composer friend, Jeremy Thurlow. Back in 2007 we collaborated on a choral-electronic-video-text...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
“Find Flesh”: Twitter, Bullies and the Power of Depth
The events of the last few months have brought me back to Twitter. I suppose it’s a despair in the shocking state of a lot of newspaper...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
"The white bees / swarm out": J.H.Prynne and Me
I’ve loved J H Prynne’s poetry ever since Easter Term 1989. I know that date because it’s penned into the front cover of my now slightly...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
wiosna przyszł
I start to sniff out for signs of Spring earlier and earlier every year. Convinced that deep underground the bulbs and seeds are spinning...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Nightshifting
Will said that the reason the orchestra didn’t come out front to the bar after the concert tonight was because they were drinking the...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Henry Moore at Kew
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Be Kind Rewind: the rebirth of the bespoke.
God, I loved this movie. Gondry’s a visual genius (re. White Stripes videos and that one with Kylie Minogue, or the one for Let Forever...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Take Care of Yourself
Went to the Whitechapel for the first time since it’s be refitted. (Lovely tactile door handles.) Alex had encouraged me to go and see...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Same battles. but this time with saints to support us.
Went to see Milk with Dominic this evening and was all fired up and sad by the end. It’s wonderful. Penn is wonderful and Van Sant mixes...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Aaron Copland: Agony I do not connect with
Preparing for the Radio Breakfast show this weekend, I’ve locked myself in my office, resisting the blandishments of Christmas shopping...
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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