Kristien
@kris8plus2.bsky.social
Human. Music, Books, Films and other things.
September 16, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Working my way through the Booker Prize long list. This one is great. “The Disappearers” by Marlon James remains my favorite.
September 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Working my way through the Booker Prize long list. This one is great. “The Disappearers” by Marlon James remains my favorite.
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#videostore One of the last remaining video stores. Horror, B movies, art house films and just weird beauties. Parisian coolness.
July 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
#videostore One of the last remaining video stores. Horror, B movies, art house films and just weird beauties. Parisian coolness.
Hard to see New Jersey from NYC. Smoke seems to be getting worse.
July 17, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Hard to see New Jersey from NYC. Smoke seems to be getting worse.
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‘If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the politician’s reserved and enigmatic demeanour.’
Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics
If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
‘If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the politician’s reserved and enigmatic demeanour.’
Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Een dag met koffie, boeken en #leonspilliaert
July 15, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Een dag met koffie, boeken en #leonspilliaert
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"If you happened to be gazing idly from a window of New York City’s J train crossing the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge, most days between the summer of 1959 and the autumn of 1961, you might have glimpsed a lone saxophonist huddled into a cranny of the gigantic steel skeleton …"
‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60
It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
"If you happened to be gazing idly from a window of New York City’s J train crossing the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge, most days between the summer of 1959 and the autumn of 1961, you might have glimpsed a lone saxophonist huddled into a cranny of the gigantic steel skeleton …"
#rodeduivels
Na de ophef over die rode kaart, op het veld arrogantie en corruptie naar de vaantjes schoppen. Well-done!
Na de ophef over die rode kaart, op het veld arrogantie en corruptie naar de vaantjes schoppen. Well-done!
July 7, 2026 at 9:42 AM
#rodeduivels
Na de ophef over die rode kaart, op het veld arrogantie en corruptie naar de vaantjes schoppen. Well-done!
Na de ophef over die rode kaart, op het veld arrogantie en corruptie naar de vaantjes schoppen. Well-done!
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photo by Jamel Shabazz
July 6, 2026 at 5:57 AM
photo by Jamel Shabazz
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Belgium don’t fuck this up
July 6, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Belgium don’t fuck this up
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BREAKING: FIFA announces independent committee to rule in Balogun red card case, headed by the Frenchman Donatien Trompe.
July 6, 2026 at 7:46 AM
BREAKING: FIFA announces independent committee to rule in Balogun red card case, headed by the Frenchman Donatien Trompe.
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"Billie Holiday’s rendition of Meeropol’s song remains as stunning – and searing – today as when it was first recorded. 'It hits, hard,' syndicated columnist Samuel Grafton wrote soon after the record’s release in 1939. 'It is as if a game of let’s pretend had ended.'"
Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
Christian and Jewish themes influenced the world of art around one of jazz’s greatest singers.
theconversation.com
July 3, 2026 at 6:45 AM
"Billie Holiday’s rendition of Meeropol’s song remains as stunning – and searing – today as when it was first recorded. 'It hits, hard,' syndicated columnist Samuel Grafton wrote soon after the record’s release in 1939. 'It is as if a game of let’s pretend had ended.'"
