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Sep 2, 2022Liked by Austin Kleon

You *did* get Meg to watch Running Down a Dream! Yay!

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I love today's collage!

5) Have you read "Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City" by Paul Morley? If not I think you'd definitely enjoy it. What the description doesn't tell you is the centerpiece of the book is Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Mind" which is now stuck in my head because I thought of this book. Ha! https://ugapress.org/book/9780820327051/words-and-music/

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Unrelated technical question:

Are you copying and pasting your posts from the Blog to Substack (or vice versa) ? Or there is an automated way to do this ?

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I read a lot of Iris Murdoch in my twenties (back in the 80's), though never The Sea, The Sea. A few months back I was weeding through books in preparation for a yard sale and decided to reread The Black Prince. Wow! So overwrought, so dramatic, so kind of obvious a lot of the time. Not sure if that was your problem with The Sea, The Sea, but you reminded me of my recent Iris Murdoch experience.

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1) That cheap housing bit is interesting—Blondie’s been doing a ton of interviews promoting the massive Numero box set that just came out and that was definitely a factor in the ‘70s NYC Lower Manhattan art & music scene. Plus, even Long Island/NJ bar bands had “band houses” (I think this was mentioned in a Twisted Sister doc?) There’s certainly more examples but more aren’t coming to mind for me at this early hour :)

2) Saw your spiral pic the other day and it reminded me of the mask of El Sicodelico, maybe because I’m cranky (spoiled!) that my library system doesn’t have the luchador portrait book you mentioned

http://www.luchawiki.com/index.php?title=File:Sicodelico01.jpg

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