johncarvill

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“Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide" Likes: Old movies, old music, old books Dislikes: Fascism, Zionism, Centrism, Racism, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misogyny, Monday

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johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jul 5

Black and white photo of Billie Holiday, with flowers in her hair, and a far-off look in her eyes.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jun 6

Phoebe's back!

Singer songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, pictured at night with her hands in what appears to be some sort of alien goo. Her hair is long and white, she is dressed in a dark hoodie or coat, there's a tree behind her and some far away lights.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· May 23

Matisse exhibition, Barcelona

Selection of Matisse cutouts with a woman looking away holding a hat

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· May 22

Do Spotify know how shit their new icon looks?

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· May 14

@doghousereilly.bsky.social Even by his incomprehensible standards, this is an incredibly good album, I would humbly suggest. #MilesDavis @milesdavis.bsky.social

Album cover for the Miles Davis album 'Miles Smiles'. The colour scheme is overwhelmingly orange, with even the central image of Miles exhibiting an orange wash. The letters spelling out the album title are large and blocky and sot of double shadowed, graphically. Looks very old school now. Overall a very attractive and cool album cover for a truly great album. Sacrilege incoming: I'd take this album over Birth of the Cool or Bitches Brew, or...

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· May 5

I hope you've covered his Action Cookbook

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Apr 26

"It's pretty difficult here, but you can learn a lot..." First viewing of 'Red Beard', and I'm going full recency bias here and elevating this expansive, humanist, exquisitely shot and acted masterpiece to the best Kurosawa I've seen. shop.bfi.org.uk/red-beard-bl...

Cover of the BFI Blu-ray box for Akira Kurosawa's 1968 film 'Red Beard'. It features a black and white photo of the great Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, luxuriantly bearded and glowering off frame to his right.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Apr 25

Joan Bennett and Marlene Dietrich, at Humphrey Bogart's funeral.

A black and white photo of Joan Bennett and Marlene Dietrich, attending Humphrey Bogart's funeral. Both are looking elegant and iconic, though understandably fraught.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Apr 7

Spent Bank Holiday weekend burrowing into this set. Phenomenal music. I don't even 'understand' it, but I can feel it. #JohnColtrane

Front cover of the box set 'John Coltrane – The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings', showing John Coltrane in a pensive pose, with a saxophone.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Apr 1

Late to the party on this, but Jesus this is good. #johncoltrane

Album cover for John Coltrane Live at Birdland

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Mar 13

If BBC News was not dysfunctional, or partisan (for the Right), would they still be platforming that plummy little bequiffed weasel, the suave-but-dim Tom Harwood? Still? This is dystopian, and Labour are on the ropes, bleeding. BBC & UK media: you wrought this. #Newsnight #BBC #BBCNewsnight #FFS

Newsnight sofa, shared by Nick Watt, Tom 'Weasel' Harwood, and a Labour MP whose name I forget but who was useless at parrying Harwood's rehearsed rhetoric and spin.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Mar 11

Sadly rare today, a Grauniad article recommendation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Inevitably Mojtaba’s appointment, already denounced by regime opponents including some in Evin jail as a disgraceful IRGC puppet show, will be seen as a sign that they were desperate to install their man, regardless of his health. The IRGC is not just an army, it is a business empire with investments spread through the economy

Maryam Alemzadeh, associate professor in history and politics of Iran at St Antony’s College, Oxford, argues the system is robust, having been intentionally designed to have a very easily replaceable leadership.

“The resilience has relied on this semi-formal network of IRGC, Basij and other state services that have fulfilled multiple roles, including service provision, surveillance and repression. Decapitation does close to nothing to affect this network. If anything it creates a limited rally round the flag effect amongst this particular group, but not the larger population,” Alemzadeh said. [with photo of Iranian crowd revering a billboard of the coutry's leader]

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Feb 20

Controversial opinion. D Girl is a better episode than Pine Barrens.

Chris, Jon Favreau, and the 'D Girl' in The Sopranos

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Feb 5

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Feb 3

Starmer should resign, now.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Feb 1

#Alcaraz

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jan 20

You know things are bad when the French President has been hitting it so hard he has to wear sunglasses indoors.

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jan 20

Guardian just now

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jan 18

Lovely 25th anniversary vinyl of one of the great albums of the Noughties. #AimeeMann @aimeemann.bsky.social

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jan 16

"There's something singular in things: they come round, you know."

Penguin paperback edition of Middlemarch

johncarvill@realjohncarvill· Jan 9

January can be a dark time, and with what's going on in the world right now, it's darker than usual. Which makes this early 2026 achievement all the sweeter and more cheering: I've been branded a 'dipshit' by @ianleslie.bsky.social