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Matthew Turner

@thewalkingfool.bsky.social

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Author of the novel SWEDEN (2018), translator, traveller on foot, Japan lover, jazz buff, albatross watcher, Ōtautahi resident.

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Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success

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I noticed that too (have just finished watching Seasons 3)!

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An American friend of mine came up with the idea of combining udon and donuts (and the name “udonuts”) more than 25 years ago. He even made a test batch in his Tokyo apartment. Of course we thought he was crazy…

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MAKE ART, NOT CONTENT!

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Translating and interpreting are completely different jobs that require completely different skills.

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I want to know more about these exploding orange cones, which sounds like a genuine health and safety issue. "All of us in our everyday lives can see something's gone wrong regulating safety on the roads with the explosion of orange cones.”

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Currently reading THE ANARCHISTS’ CLUB by Alex Reeve, a crime novel set in Victorian London with a transgender protagonist. #books #booksky 💙📚

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That was painful to watch, but yes, congrats to Afghanistan.

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Yes, I guess that’s cheap as far as accommodation goes, and food (croissants!) is included. Working ten hours a week also sounds attractive, but not sure about showering at swimming pools.

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I’ve heard of people living on cruise ships, but living on trains?

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Wordle 1,084 2/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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According to Facebook, it’s a year since I joined the queue in the searing heat of Hanoi to view the embalmed corpse of Ho Chi Minh. Apparently he wanted to be cremated.

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If you're interested in keeping up with my adventures building an urban cheesemaking business in Japan, please sign up to my mailing list! (Reposts/boosts welcome)

Signup data can help me when I present the project to lenders and investors. www.yuzuten.com/cheese-labo

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Cool. Sometime next month would be good for me.

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Yeah, I remember that too. Ebisu, I think, was the name of the restaurant.

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Eggs: Poached Steak: No thanks, I’m pescatarian Milk: Full cream, but only in coffee and tea and on porridge Alcohol: Wine, sake, and the occasional cocktail (but nothing with gin) Hot drink: Flat white in the morning and after lunch and tea after dinner

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Just when you thought U.S. politics couldn't get any weirder, along comes... Maga Communism!

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The Sympathizer: Robert Downey Jr totally steals the show in electric spy thriller

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When it comes to Wordle, my brother, a maths teacher, leaves nothing to chance.

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I'm sure it’s been said before, but there’s something very manga-like about the cinematography in Netflix’s RIPLEY (and it’s not just because it’s in black and white). It’s beautiful to watch, and Andrew Scott is great as the protagonist.

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Currently reading YELLOWFACE by Rebecca F. Huang. Borrowed from my sister, who wasn’t impressed. I’m still on the fence...
#books #booksky 💙📚

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This is timely! Coming in June, September Night, a previously unreleased 2004 concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet.

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Really enjoyed this exhibition at the Christchurch Art Gallery on the theme of "twentieth-century Aotearoa New Zealand artists exploring urban, suburban and industrial landscapes." Many of the featured artists, around half of whom are women, have close connections to Ōtautahi.

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I try to start with a different word each day. That’s part of the fun for me. And how I managed a second 1/6 with STONE.

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I got my first 1/6 with the most hated word in the English language.

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“This fine exhibition frees a great work from cliche by taking a national anthem and turning it into a Springsteen rustbelt ballad.” Turner: Art, Industry and Nostalgia review – Fighting Temeraire sets Tyneside ablaze

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“Kunzru is known for ambitious novels that bring politics to rich, imaginative life; Blue Ruin shows him at the top of his game.” Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru review – art monsters

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In the words of Gabriel García Márquez "it is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams"
Melanie Cantor, who got her first novel published at age 61 after a decade of rejections, is living hers
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...

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Stanko and Wasilewski also play on the 2005 Manu Katché album Neighborhood. Of the Marcin Wasilewski Trio albums, my favourite is Spark of Life (2014).

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Three albums by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet featuring Marcin Wasilewski: Soul of Things (2002), suspended Night (2004) and Lontano (2006).

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Another flashback, this one to the 2009 Wellington Jazz Festival. I’d never heard of Tomasz Stanko, but his gig on March 7 (with Marcin Wasilewski on piano) was the best concert I've ever been to. I believe there’s a recording of it in the Radio New Zealand vault!

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Sightseeing in Kyoto during my first visit to Japan in 1985, when 1 US dollar got you 240 yen.

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Sven Lindqvist’s short book, ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, continues to be the history of the present. Essential reading.

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