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Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976-82)
One of the small discomforts of being a Gen Xer is that so many of our childhood TV gods turned out to be bastards or wankers. Some of these men (they are all men) were semi-evident bastards at the time: you can’t throw a stone in Waitrose...
Blue Velvet (1986)
Elevator Pitch
On his way home from visiting his father in hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) finds an ear in an abandoned lot. Jeffrey and his neighbour Sandy (Laura Dern) investigate. They discover that the ear belongs to a m...
The accidental profundity of the middlebrow
When did we stop thinking about cultural output in terms of highbrow, lowbrow and — most delicious of all — middlebrow? In the striving ‘80s and ‘90s, when class in the UK was explicitly understood as malleable, ‘middlebrow’ was king. Betwe...
1986: Your Funeral… My Trial
Your Funeral… My Trial by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: track by track
Sad Waters
You can blame Larry Adler for what you are about to read.
In September 1990 my student friends and I were entering our second year at university, and h...
Metropolitan Mixtape: September 2026
Letterboxd Diary
What has been entering into his Letterboxd account.
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)
★★★1/2
A spin off from a Canadian TV show that was a spin off from a Web series about a pair of idiot would-be pop m...
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Writer and Creative Director, I also play a man who knows about data visualisation in several Guardian Masterclasses
Jonathan lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He writes short stories and essays, and is also working on a novel. He also hosts a longstanding writing community called Writing Under the Influence, which meets at the Keep bar in Ridgewood, Queens.
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