Guy Cuevas’s book is out - sounds interesting, I’ve just ordered:
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Just read this… Going to have to revisit/reassess Dollar now as the track linked is ace!
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Should be in the ‘Is it Balearic’ thread!
(Answer - Yes!)
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Some good news to come home too…
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Not sure if Audio books should be here or the Listening thread but enjoying Michael Jayston read Le Carre the Little Drummer Girl which Ive never read & only seen 1 episode of the BBC
Just finished Single & Single, I love a JlC audiobook as well as reading book
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I’ve mentioned them before, the BBC radio complete smiley radio plays are the best, they need to catch up and do a legacy of spies. Little drummer girl is one of my fave le Carre books although I’m not 100% convinced about her motivation
Stephen fry reading the complete Sherlock holmes is excellent value. Particularly as I got it as part of a free audible trial
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I need to try treh BBC radio ones. Assume they arent the Jaystone ones?
Somewhere in loft are CDs of all the Smileys when I (pre audible) borrowed the 12 CD audiobook of each Smiley trilogy & copied them!!!
My main man
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It’s these. Knowing internet archive probably very low resolution rips, but you don’t need much for an audio book
“https://archive.org/details/DotCompleteBBCr4”
Edit: can’t get the link embedded properly, search archive.org for complete smiley bbc
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“For Mr. Meier, the film had an equally enduring effect: It launched the Swiss artist and entrepreneur’s quirky techno tune “Oh Yeah” into rarefied commercial territory, giving him seed money to help amass a fortune in investments in such things as the trains that take tourists to the Matterhorn and the firm that prints currency.”
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lol that song was literally “a license to print money”
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amazing, just had a look The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas - BBC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
great idea
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I’m not sure how the internet archive gets away with or “licenses” all of this stuff. Loads of radio shows and audiobooks on there
this: Who is Curtis Yarvin, the monarchist, anti-democracy blogger? - Vox
pretty much all societies have long lived with one or many big red buttons that say “do not push” - maybe that button starts nuclear war, or spouts racist ideology, or… i don’t know, removes all child labor laws and sends kids back into the mines (hey, they seem to like it, some might say). but in this new world, with it’s decentralized social media and it’s billionaire-funded think tanks and it’s edgelord and anti-hero canonization - i can’t help but feel like there’s an increasing sense that every red button will soon be pushed.
for any bad (malicious) or tragic (accidental) thing that happens, it seems like there’s now a vocal subset of people who defend or praise whatever shitty thing has happened - those are the button pushers, those who “just want to watch the world burn”. and, those people are both-sided by pretty much every possible venue, whether it’s media or academia or even polite conversation - so now nothing works in it’s proper proportion - it feels like there’s as many people decrying kanye’s “cancellation” as there are people who are disgusted with his behavior.
it’s because of this, that i fear the philosophy outlined in the link above is so much closer than anyone realizes - it’s a combination of a mad grab for power, the misguided belief that a scorched earth is the best possible starting point, and the inevitable backing from so many dumbfucks who just can’t resist seeing what happens when the button is pushed.
grim, but plausible.
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Interesting. Will give this a read after the football.
Reminded me of this - fascinating and terrifying:
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amazing. can’t help but think of the young marble giant’s “final day” lyrics.
“When the rich die last, like the rabbits running
From a lucky past, full of shadow cunning
And the world lights up, for the final day
We will all be poor, having had our say”
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Mccready what a legend here in Ireland. Many good times with him Anderson and Holmes 
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