Obsessive, Compulsive, and Disorderly
“I’m a bit OCD”, meaning “I even hoover under the rug when I clean my room and I do it at least once a week”, no longer bothers me like it used to. It’s a losing battle to fight against the evolution of language anyway. Things...
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A Brief Note on Travelling
A brief note on travelling, featured in ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys…Townes Van Zandt...
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Bukowski And Friends
Today marks 22 years since the world said farewell to one of its greatest ever American writers, Mr Henry Charles Bukowski. I first fell in love with his writing sometime in my late teenage years at a point when my brain and my morals were at their most malleable....
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 3
My original plan was that I would somehow get hold of Puff Daddy, I would grill him about his and Biggie’s favourite old haunts in Brooklyn and the two of us would go on some kind of crazy restaurant crawl, at the end of which we would be best friends. Puffy...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. pt 2
Illustrations by Chris Harward. Photos by Sarah Crowder. Sophie and I have been “going back to Cali” at least once a year every year for the last three years now. We drive around in rented cars (I say “we” but it is always Sophie driving since...
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Eating with Notorious B.I.G. part 1
Illustrations by Chris Harward On this day 19 years ago Biggie was killed. I was two weeks away from my 12th birthday when Christopher Wallace (aka the notorious B.I.G) was shot dead outside the Peterson Automative museum in Los Angeles, and I had no idea who he was....
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Raw Strawberry Pie Recipe by Jonsi (Sigur Ros) & Alex
Illustration by Pheobe Wahl Sarah and I made Jonsi and Alex’s raw strawberry pie recipe from Venue to Menu yesterday afternoon. It’s, essentially, a really really delicious raw food cheesecake which I’ve always preferred to normal cheesecake because...
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Berlin, part one: Pizza, wine and finger-lickin chicken
We went to Berlin to be great explorers, eat excellent food, take photos in the city’s many photoautomat machines and have productive meetings over coffees and dinners. It was freezing but it was magic, as discovering cities by foot always is. The only time...
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TVZ interview with Brian T. Atkinson
A few weeks ago Sarah and I, being huge fans ourselves, put on a tribute evening dedicated to the late great Townes Van Zandt as part of a series of monthly country music nights we’re going to be hosting. To coincide with our TVZ night, we thought it’d be...
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Goddamn Lonely Love
It was pretty difficult to avoid the expanse of love being carelessly thrown about and shoved proudly onto social media this weekend. But whether it made you feel sick and lonely or made your heart swell with delight…at least it made you feel and that’s always...
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Frank Turner & Esme Patterson at 93 Feet East
Sophie: Sarah and I went to Frank Turner’s show at 93 Feet East last night. It’s not often that we get to hang out and go to shows together in London because we live so far apart but if it’s something we’ve deemed extra special, we’ll...
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Townes Van Zandt Zine Mixtape
I made a mixtape of suggested listening for the TVZ zine which I thought I’d share this morning so you can start your week in a really excellent way. The artists featured on this are people who have been mentioned in relation to Townes throughout the zine/his...
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