On why I got a little obsessed with a certain TV show.
Thoughts on Minari
The film Minari is about the specific and the universal. It’s about the specificity of being a Korean dad in a family of four, trying to start a farm in rural Arkansas, a place you have never been before. On this farm, you want to grow vegetables which you are ultra-familiar with, and which remind…
Sunday Miscellany: Refuge of the Records
On albums that help you during times of strangeness.
Sunday Miscellany: The Heron is Present
An essay on an obsession with a heron.
Sunday Miscellany: Magic Nights at the Lobby Bar
On putting on an Elliott Smith tribute gig on the worst night possible.
The Land of No Junction
On Aoife Nessa Frances’s excellent debut album, looking back at early 2020, and Christmas difficulties.
Lost Together
On capturing what it is to live now, while keeping a bit of hope.
Truth, lies, love and The Souvenir
It wasn’t the central relationship that I cared most deeply about in Joanna Hogg’s film The Souvenir.
Two strangers, and a black cat
What I see when I look at a photograph from long ago.
Introducing: Get Around To It, the podcast
When you reach your 30s something annoying can start to happen: in the rush to get your life together (read: career, family, relationships, paying rent, etc) you can find that you don’t have enough time for the hobbies you once did. That’s not the case for everyone, and is something that can wax and wane….
Sweet Oblivion 