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I wrote an extended version of my interview with Jane Birkin in which she talked about Serge Gainsbourg, motherhood, and the subversive legacy of Je T'Aime. https://open.substack.com/pub/alastairmckay/p/histoire-de-jane-birkin-an-english?r=695tp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Jah Wobble: From Public Image to Ponders End

Destination Soulsville USA

Square Go Time: An Encounter With The Great Scottish Actor/Director Peter Mullan:

RIP Syd - Shine On

Real Sex In All Its Artless Banality - Michael Winterbotton's 9 Songs

E Wood, patriotic butcher

Q&A with Jonathan Jakubowicz, director of Secuestro Express

Insult A Celebrity

Grant Morrison, Animal Man, Bible John, And The Post-Modern Limitations Of Comic Book Superheroes

Barry and Stuart: Was Jesus A Huckster With Charisma, Or Were The Miracles Really Miraculous?

Bitter Jester: Richard Belzer on Munch, Seinfeld, And The Stage Manners of Rupert Pupkin

Nostradamus, Hallucinations of Hitler and Bin Laden, And The Future Of The Documentary

Forever Blowing Bubbles: 2006 FA Cup Final, Cardiff.

Nick Cave: Watching Bewitched, dreaming of Jeannie, in awe of Nina Simone

Video of Gram Parsons, courtesy of Phil "Road Mangler Deluxe" Kaufman