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The Ego is Just a Phase
[This is a second excerpt from the recent ‘Tender Heart’ Scarborough Retreat held in March 2019. The first is here. This is a transcript...
Alistair Appleton
May 2, 20196 min read
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Tapping and Meditation: Coming Out as a Practitioner of Both
Tapping and meditation are my guilty secret There’s a thing that I have been keeping quiet about and I’m not sure why. Many years ago,...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 25, 20197 min read
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United Simplicities of America
2 weeks in LA and Mendocino County, 2 hours North of San Francisco. Have been unconsciously avoiding America ever since Bush came to...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Belle & Sebastian
Belle & Sebastian Simon had free tickets, so we went to the B&S gig at the Astoria. Heard their first album in Berlin, years ago. But to...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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The gay messiah is coming
THE GAY MESSIAH IS COMING A title sure to agitate all the rabid Republican Americans out there who froth and fulminate each time I so...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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nothing has changed but nothing's the same / and every tomorrow will be yesterday
I thought I’d missed seeing David Byrne in London and then last week I thought ‘fuck it, I WILL see my teenage hero’, so I sniffed out a...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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“for each time you or I treat images as presentations of something else […] we have smas
Went with Rachel to the Anish Kapoor show at the Royal Academy. It’s worth a pilgrimage and I use this word advisedly because there is...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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a kind of fence-sitting/ Raised to the level of an aesthetic ideal
John Ashbery died. Aged 90,which is a fine innings, and in the arms of his husband – so all-in-all from the outside, not tragic. And if...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20190 min read
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A faun orgasms and I get to meet a Knight
I don’t have many heroes. The Dalai Lama perhaps. Yo-Yo Ma, he’s pretty amazing. Aung Sun Su Kyi. But Sir Simon Rattle is up there...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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COMING OUT IS GOOD FOR YOU
This article was written in response to several emails I received from young men around the world who had read an interview I gave to Gay...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20196 min read
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Sleeping as I crack
Just been to see Black Sun, a visionary documentary film by Gary Tarn. Though “documentary film” doesn’t really do it justice. It’s more...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Holy Island 2005
HOLY ISLAND 2005 Zang, a handsome young South African, had been in charge of Holy Island when I’d first visited there 5 years ago and for...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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Mumford & Sons
Talking this afternoon over a hamburger freshly cooked on the barbeque with Jez and Tom who both were at University with me, it struck us...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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nothing has changed but nothing’s the same / and every tomorrow will be yesterday
I thought I’d missed seeing David Byrne in London and then last week I thought ‘fuck it, I WILL see my teenage hero’, so I sniffed out a...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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