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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Been walking πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈ

Two pairs of walking boots propped up on stone steps
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🎡 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Roger Waters (23 plays)
Stornoway (23)
Burning Spear (12)
Zahia Ziouani & Divertimento (12)
Vann, London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus (7)

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Gateway

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Stornoway at Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023 🎡

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Tramshed, Cardiff, Tuesday 31st October 2023 🎡

Music venue illuminated billboard showing Stornoway

Stornoway

Man with grey hair, beard and glasses in a crowd inside a concert venue

I’m aglow

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Tramshed, Cardiff for Stornoway 🎡

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Rainy Cardiff β˜”οΈ

Rainy street at night. Brick buildings, wet road, shining lights reflected, grey clouds in sky,
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

From Dante, a 1929 essay. The full quote is

What is surprising about the poetry of Dante is that it is, in one sense, extremely easy to read. It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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Haunted Mansion, 2023 - β˜…β˜…Β½

Watched on Monday October 30, 2023.

πŸ“† | 🏷 FilmTV
Tarkovsky
  1. Stalker
  2. Nostalgia
  3. Ivan's Childhood
  4. Boris Godunov
  5. Mirror
  6. Andrei Rublev
  7. The Sacrifice
  8. Solaris
  9. There Will Be No Leave Today
  10. The Steamroller and the Violin

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Toyah & Robert at Swansea Grand Theatre, Saturday 28th October 2023 🎡

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Very entertaining and amusing show by Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp at Swansea Grand Theatre last night

Theatre stage with band of 8 musicians - woman singing in sparkling dress, 4 guitarists, 2 keyboard players and drummer

Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Live! 🎡

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🎡 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: MiloΕ‘ KaradagliΔ‡ (12), Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (12), Fischer-Dieskau, Barenboim (10), Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Schwanewilms, Dever, Groves, Hawlata (8), Wilhelm FurtwΓ€ngler & Vienna Philharmonic (8)

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Location check in πŸ—Ί β€” Swansea Grand Theatre for Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch Live! 🎭 🎡

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