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50 Reasons to love 2020

A list of discoveries I made while tethered to my screen. It wasn’t all bad…

CULTURE

  • Exceptional profile of I May Destroy You creator Michaela Coel by E Alex Jung. It's been a while since I have been so attuned to an interviewee – their personality, their struggle, their very being. I'll be reading this again. PS Here’s a great tip from Michaela on how to make others accountable and expose their BS. “She is eager, almost giddy, to say she doesn’t know something (even if she may have an inkling) because of the way it forces someone else to explain it to her. She has discovered that the explanation is where people begin to falter and the fissures of conventional wisdom crack wider. It may be business as usual, but is it right, is it good?

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Rebel without a pause

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Attention all beat junkies and collectors of record art. There are lots of screenings of The Man from Mo'Wax happening this weekend across the UK. This is the story of the rise and fall and resurrection of visionary James Lavelle, who emerged in the Nineties to run one of the most daring and infuential record labels in the world. 

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