I somehow didn’t see that Justin died until today. Here is one from his namesake that is one of my favorites and seems fitting
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Oh, the sweet memories. 
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I’m seeing blockheads saying he died of dementia, not COVID. 
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I think I’m taking a break for the rest of the day 
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A good idea. Hugs…
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Came here to post that. I was quite upset. He was only slagging off the UK XR the other day over their need to explain they weren’t socialist.
I haven’t been this sad about a public intellectual since Mark Fisher.
He’s been in my thoughts during several discussions on here and I quote arguments from him regularly.
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Not available in my country for some reason (trackers probably). Will try a VPN later.
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John Courtenay saved Carlisle United after Michael Knighton had mismanaged the club for years
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Beat me to it. I first heard Silver Apples in the late 90s via my online international community devoted to strange music. I was always discovering that recorded music was stranger and more wonderful than I had imagined growing up in an isolated backwater cut off from consumerism (a European capital, but back then…) I was aware of techno precursors particularly French stuff like messe pour le temps present, but to hear Silver Apples blasting our with the in sound from the far out future back in 68 was mind blowing. Like the BBC radiophonic workshop meeting IRCAM, but with a pounding groove. And none of the big money behind it. Just DIY.
And the story, like so many, while it was inspiring in its creativity was cut short by the typical greed and lawsuits and they left music to be obscure until rediscovered by my online friends and people like them. Their reformation was like a fantasy vindication but ended swiftly in a carcrash and spinal injury and death. Simeon returned to playing using Ableton to trigger samples of his awesome homemade racket (though the drums were kickboxing too!) but it’s hard not to think of them as a hard luck story, a possible future of music ripped out by corporate greed and power, and ultimately unfulfilled promise.
Salud Simeon! You were a proper geezer.
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Goodbye, Mother Courage.
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She was so great as Lady Olenna. She went out like a boss.
“Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.”
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True.
I chose Brecht because I thought she would appreciate not to be remembered (only) as the Queen of Thorns. And because I knew this would be covered by some other member of the community.
But I really liked her as Oleanna. She was both fierce and touchingly human - more than could be said for many other characters on the show.
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I’ll have to watch some Avengers from my Emma Peel Megaset Collection.
Sniff.
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