Wilco Schmilco – Album of the Week #12
Wilco are in the business of joyful melancholy and their latest album is another great edition to the genre, making a perfect accompaniment for an over-travelled…
RIP Leonard Cohen
Bloody hell – what a terrible week. RIP Leonard Cohen. It’s going to be a day of sad songs, but something’s a bit more uplifting have a listen to this incredible interview between Jarvis Cocker and Leonard Cohen just a few weeks ago, in which he seemed so full of life and ideas. There is also a transcript.
Ruminations on South African art (in the Coach & Horses)
After months of nearly no blogging activity it felt wrong to get going again with a piece about the joy of being in my favourite pub…
The Snow Leopard
It is the reader, I suspect, and not the author that determines what is the subject of Peter Mathieson’s captivating thirty-year old book, The Snow Leopard. It is variously a travelogue (on which the author accompanies a famed naturalist to study the Nepalese wild blue sheep), a tale of spiritual search (for Mathieson lost his wife to cancer shortly before setting off), or an exploration of the natural beauty of a last wildnerness. For markontour, it was all about the majesty of mountains and a certain kind of welcome solitude.
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