Ditto and ditto. The trousers and shoes are unforgivable though!
It all looks terrible.
Nice piece about Ezra Collective playing in Lagos Mercury prize winners Ezra Collective: ‘A bassline and drumbeat puts everyone on the same page’ | Jazz | The Guardian
“Maybe it should have been titled Punk IS dad hahaha”
Yes it should
completely bizarre… reading the reviews, hilarious
Finished this last week, utterly terrifying and incredibly prescient. File under dystopian future novels with a strong “it couldn’t happen here” slant. A real page turner, not for the faint hearted
Nice, might check that out
Nice review of the world of Spotify etc from a few months back, also references this for the sub-genre fans:
This looks ace.
Fascinated and also slightly scary reading about this trial and all that went before, especailly how Michael Lewis managed to get a fly on the wall view of the whole thing unfolding:
John Lanchester · He-Said, They-Said: Crypto Corruption · LRB 2 November 2023
Michael Lewis Is Buying What Sam Bankman-Fried Is Selling - The Atlantic
amazing how many of these people wanted to be classical musicians but no-one would let them
Kind of shocking isn’t it? Michael Lewis is usually an essential read for me and I’m second-guessing myself after seeing how he got snookered by SBF. There was a “Lunch with the FT” with SBF in Spring 2022 and it seemed pretty obvious to us he was either a fraud or out of his gourd
I always find it so weird that some people’s job / vocation is just ‘making money, out of other money’
Yeah he seems weirdly uncritical of him, I suppose he’s trying to maintain some balance or neutrality maybe, but even SBF’s parents are quoted as saying he was basically out of control. The Effective Altruism bit makes for an interesting twist on it too.
Pleased for her, I really liked her first stuff and she seems like a unique voice that deserves to cross over