Coffee shops should drop their insipid faux-jazz soundtracks and just put on Brian Eno's Music For Airports . Specifically 1/1, which is the perfect track both in length and tone to drink an Americano to.
Itâs World Migratory Bird Day, so letâs talk about Bar-tailed Godwits. These shorebirds are about the size of a pigeon, and every year tens of thousands of them make their annual autumn migration around this time.
Haha! SHUT IT, YOU. Haha! SHUT IT, YOU.
(This being just one finding from a quick stocktake of "stuff I like to keep up with regularly". It's not good. I think having a job might be the tricky obstacle here.)
Remember that time everyone got pissed off at Twitter, and started up Substacks? Well, I'm loving your work, guys. Just not your CURRENT work, having just realised I'm 13 months behind on my subscription list. Oops.
I think it was the first RVW I ever knowingly heard, certainly in a concert (uni orchestra in a Norwich church). Proper "hairs on the back of the neck" moment.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born #OnThisDay in 1872, so to celebrate his 152nd birthday, here's the great man and his cat.
A Shakespeare play I knew nothing about â surprised I've never seen it at the Globe (or Tom Hiddleston's performance at the NT a few years back). Great modern-ish setting, really pushing the political polarisation theme, and even squeezing in a little reference to Just Stop Oil style protests.
I'm pleased to report that David Oyelowo is a very good actor. I mean, I had my suspicions. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...
David Oyelowo is Coriolanus in Lyndsey Turner's thrilling new production of Shakespeare's timeless political tragedy.
Well, frankly I'm disgusted at the Met Office, hiding the truth from us and assuming we'll just get on with our lives, when we know we're going to die in 15000mph winds within a couple of hours.
