Substack launched – Bluejeans & Moonbeams
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Getting into my stride on Substack. Mine is called Bluejeams & Moonbeams.
Latest dispatch
Neef Ekpoudom's novelistic history of UK rap and grime will move you. There's a poem about aging that's also a yearning for possibility as a new year unfolds. Plus, a round-up of some features I really enjoyed: how friendships became admin, crazy crisp flavour secrets and a very fair but amusing jukebox jury on Fred Again.
https://amarofpatel.substack.com/p/throwing-bricks-at-glass-ceilings?r=16npk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Looking back
In case you missed them, here is a selection of micro-to-long dispatches from last year.
Topics include:
– the essence of Top Boy
– painter Bhupen Khakhar’s vibrant individuality
– mad-dog actor Tom Sizemore
– the underestimated Donna Summer
– Moki Cherry making “home as stage and stage as home” with partner Don
– TV show Dopesick and the OxyContin scandal
– Sarah Lucas artfully taking the p&*s for 30 years
– Indiana Jones out of time
– In praise of staying curious
– De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove
– Pilvi Takala’s undercover art experiments
– Angus Cloud gone too soon
– Emma Warren’s personal history of the dancefloor
– Fleishman Is in Trouble
And much more. Take your pick.
https://amarofpatel.substack.com/p/30-things-i-wrote-in-2023?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2