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Same battles. but this time with saints to support us.
Went to see Milk with Dominic this evening and was all fired up and sad by the end. It’s wonderful. Penn is wonderful and Van Sant mixes...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Aaron Copland: Agony I do not connect with
Preparing for the Radio Breakfast show this weekend, I’ve locked myself in my office, resisting the blandishments of Christmas shopping...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Godard’s knock
GODARD’S KNOCK Been away filming a new BBC show in Turkey for 2 weeks. I like these long shoots abroad. I feel like I’m floating through...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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the normal way things are done Like the concentric growing up of days Around a life
Ah, I’m back on the interweb after a month-long quarantine while I moved. It was weirdly liberating being severed from the juicy nexus. I...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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WHAT HOUSE: Profusion and ConcisionÂ
Once again I’ve packed my travel bag with suitably televisual clothes and hit the road for filming. This year I’m shooting a fifth series...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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"Everybody ticks. Only the anti-clockwise hear it."
Went with Rachel to a wonderfully underground (in all senses of the word) art exhibit in the bowels of Shoreditch Town Hall. The winner –...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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oh how beautifully the year begins / the blazing starts, the terror dims
SNOW The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.
This is another re-furbished blog piece from the archives. But no one tires of hearing about amazing teenagers and the vast sweep of the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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A sudden cartography of song
[This is the text to a piece I created together with the Cambridge composer Jeremy Thurlow. It was based around ideas of non-wordy beauty...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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The Five Obstructions
I love LvT’s films. They’re so perverse, so irritating in the way that provokes pearls. And this one, like many, runs like a little...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Urizen & le train-train
I spend most of yesterday having cups of tea and meals with different people, talking about the desire to break free of the humdrum...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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