Tom Ewing Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tom Ewing

The last thing I read this keen to ignore Es was A Void by Georges Perec. https://t.co/Sck8SRKe01

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@nonoxcol @peoples_pop I have in my head a terrible straw man voter whose entire decision loop is “IF “Britpop” THEN VOTE”, he looks a bit like John Harris and I’d have guessed he’d have been too busy today to vote.

Tom Ewing

The Cleese thing reminds me of the waning years of Stan Lee’s career where dodgy new ventures would proudly announce they’d signed the father of the Marvel U and then unveil Stan Lee’s Stripperella.

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@peoples_pop Entropy In The UK is (IIRC) the only musical release by Mark Fisher aka K-Punk - a set of dots I didn’t join until years later; I had the four tracks as very crappy sounding MP3 files (appropriately maybe given the record’s theme)

Tom Ewing

When I was 13 a teacher gave us Michael Herr’s Dispatches to read and some other kids were freaked out by the ear-collecting, PTSD, inhumanity of war material whereas I was “oh wow Alan Moore nicked ALL this stuff for Halo Jones last year in 2000AD” https://t.co/sdymtnM1lo

Tom Ewing

Hearing people like Tears For Fears, Talk Talk, Grace Jones, Propaganda wrestling with the same tech and similar imperatives (lots of surprisingly philosophical pop around in ‘85!) shows up how RUTH is in orbit around the rest of pop but also makes clearer the unique elements.