kieran devlin

@kierand.bsky.social

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working in publishing, writing in between // he/him ig @kierandevlin_

Philip Guston's Couple in Bed.
photo of the band and choir
image of a church, reading: BRITAIN IS, AND SHOULD REMAIN, A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY NOW AND ALWAYS. SHARE IF YOU AGREE
ebook reader showing the cover of Ulysses - in front of sunny blue sky and green trees, grass
text, reading: Dear Kieran, BREAKING: A parliamentary by-election will take place in Makerfield. We don’t know the date yet. But we do know this: Reform UK will see this as a huge opportunity. Last week, in local elections in Makerfield and Wigan, Reform UK took every single council seat with a 46.2% share of the total vote. Now, a parliamentary by-election is set to take place in the same area. And the stakes could get even higher. If Andy Burnham stands, it could trigger a Greater Manchester Mayoral by-election too, giving Reform another chance to build momentum. Kieran, we need to move now. HOPE not hate has a rapid response plan for moments exactly like this: local organising, targeted leafleting, digital adverts, and more to make sure Reform are challenged from the start. But after intense election campaigns in England, Scotland, and Wales, we need urgent support to put that plan into action and make sure Reform doesn't get a free ride.
Helly Hansen jacket, with "HH" logo
a detail from 'Audition' 1999, showing swimmers at a leisure centre
a photo of a robin on a thin branch
pop-up survey on the BFI website, 'How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the website?'
a still from the film. adults in mourning dress look away and to the right, as a small girl off-centre frame looks just away from the camera.
David Byrne and band onstage
a photo of a shelf in Oxfam - a line of CDs, including eight Lana Del Rey albums
The box for Smiles of a Summer Night, Tartan Video, SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION BOX SET EXCLUSIVELY PACKAGED WITH INGMAR BERGMAN'S BOOK "IMAGES"
Jeff Tweedy on stage with his band
quote tweet from Logan Paul. quotes Jake Paul, Feb 8: Purposefully turning off the halftime show Let's rally together and show big corporations they can't just do whatever they want without consequences... to which Logan says: I love my brother but I don't agree with this Puerto Ricans are Americans & I'm happy they were given the opportunity to showcase the talent that comes from the island
a photo of the band playing
Text, reading: Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here (30s/40s) Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi (1952) Chet Baker Sings (1954) Errol Garner - Concert by the Sea (1955) Dorothy Ashby - Hip Harp (1958) Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959) Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (1960) Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1962) Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream (1962) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963) John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1964)* Archie Shepp - Fire Music (1965) Ella at Duke's Place (1965) Grant Green - Visions (1971) Sun Ra - Space is the Place Camille Yarbrough - The Iron Pot Cooker (1975)* Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert (1975) Kamasi Washington - The Epic (2015)* Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders - Promises (2021)* Joel Ross - The Parable of the Poet (2022) Milton + esperanza (2024) *spiritual/moreso spiritual
Guardian article, reading: The UK housing market is enjoying a new year bounce, with the average price of a home coming up for sale increasing by the largest monthly amount in a decade, data shows. The property website Rightmove said almost £10,000 was added to the average asking price of a British home in the space of five weeks.
text, reading: eature films and documentaries can sometimes struggle to fasten down viewers’ attention if the central character isn’t sympathetic but maybe we’re a tad more forgiving of anti-heroes in nonfiction as we accept warts and all in real life.
text, reading: He is waiting for me. My name is Tara Selter. I am sitting in the back room overlooking the garden and a woodpile. It is the eighteenth of November. Every night when I lie down to sleep in the bed in the guest room it is the eighteenth
a screenshot of bullet points, reading: A new YouGov poll found that Zohran Mamdani's main policy proposals are popular nationwide. The most popular proposal is raising taxes on millionaires and corporations. But even his controversial proposal to open city-run grocery stores earned majority support.
george galloway, during "would you like me to be the cat"
v for vendetta mask
Smotrich says Hamas must be destroyed after captives return. Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, known for his incendiary remarks, has said Hamas must be destroyed following the return of captives from Gaza. “Immediately after the hostages return home, the state of Israel will continue to strive with all its might for the true eradication of Hamas and the genuine disarmament of Gaza, so that it no longer poses a threat to Israel,” Smotrich said in a post on X.
good dale cooper
an echo bar
a screenshot of the BBC news website. the headline is "Emergency test alert sent to mobile phones across the UK". The article image is a photo with the alert on top of the lock screen wallpaper, which is a pride flag (including trans and POC colours)
lyric from Isis by Bob Dylan: A man in the corner approached me for a match // I knew right away he was not ordinary
a copy of Street Children by B.S. Johnson and Julia Trevelyan Oman
Deerhoof on stage at Bush Hall
Celebration Rock by Japandroids
section of an eBay order confirmation. Street Children, in visibly good condition, $54.99
a photo of the Old Vic, with the sign up for Girl from the North Country
my "New releases for you" on Spotify, recommending NEVER STOP by King Combs and Kanye West
video of Joel Ross playing
the boxset spines, containing: Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, Summer with Monika, A Lesson in Love, Summer Interlude, Waiting Women, Fanny and Alexander, From the Life of the Marionettes, After the Rehearsal, Autumn Sonata, Faro Document 1979, Scenes from a Marriage, Cries and Whispers.
talking heads - fear of music on vinyl. on CD: more songs about buildings and food, remain in light, Joel Ross's parable of the poet, aphex twin's syro, theme time radio hour with Bob Dylan, powaqqatsi, grizzly bear's shields
Guardian headline, reading: 'Shakespeare would be writing for games today': Cannes' first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth
three CDs: low fi by stereolab, lift yr skinny fists by godspeed you! black emperor, live 1997 by spiritualized
copy of the new Stereolab CD
a copy of The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, on a metal train station seat
an advert on the Roku homepage for the Roku Channel showing Agent Cody Banks
my orange. it is yellower than normal and dotty.
Cover of the Observer, with a full page image of women under a blossoming tree on a sunny day. Headline reads: "Blooming Reform. The women who won it"
A lot of CDs. Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series 1-3, Celer's Tightrope, Justin Hopper and Sharon Kraus with the Belbury Poly - Chanctonbury Rings, Squarepusher's Hello Everything, Belle and Sebastian boxes including 3..6.. 9 Seconds Of Light, Lazy Line Painter Jane, and Dog on Wheels, Billy Bragg and Wilco's Mermaid Avenue, Oh Holy Fools - The Music of Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes, Father John Misty's I Love You, Honeybear and Fear Fun, The Field's Yesterday and Today, Feist's Metals, Richard Hawley's Lady's Bridge, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King, Laura Marling's Short Movie, The Olivia Tremor Control's Music from the unrealised film script Dusk at Cubist Castle, Portico Quartet's Isla, She Keeps Bees's Eight Houses, Soak's Before We Forgot How to Dream, Spiritualized's Let It Come Down, TV On The Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain, Wilco's a ghost is born
Father John Misty on-stage with his pianist whose name I don't remember, sorry.
A stack of CDs - MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, two Voxtrot EPs, Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words (Daniel Barenboim), David Gray's White Ladder, T.S. Eliot Reading The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, English Harpsichord Music (Ruth Dyson Plays Blow, Croft, Chilcot and Purcell).
Photo of five CDs. Broadcast and the Focus Group, Robert Lippok's falling into komeit and redsuperstructure, Mogwai's Young Team and Tortoise's millions now living will never die.
The stage at the start of The Seagull. Bare, with a tall square of crops in the middle.
The seating map for The Hunger Games on stage. It's in the round, with sections labelled district 1 to 10 in the immediate area of the stage, then district 11 is a thin band around the whole edge - i.e. the cheap seats up in the gods.
the input selector. it looks like a VHS player or something. black with chunky buttons.
photo of two books: I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There by Róisín Lanigan and Enemy Feminisms by Sophie Lewis
photo of two books: Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, and On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle.
screenshot of a post, reading: Great to see so much praise for a groundbreaking TV show Adolescence, but I only have it in me to watch comfort TV atm. I've only really had it in me to watch comfort TV for about the last five years, and I honestly can't see that changing soon. Would love some groundbreaking comfort TV instead
Screenshot of text, reading: "I'd step outside the frame one last time and wave at you from the edge of the page, a machine-shaped hand learning to mimic the emptiness of goodbye."
Mickey 17, A Real Pain, Doubt, Grand Theft Hamlet