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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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