Looking Sideways: 10 Things
The things that caught my eye this week.
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1. New newsletter alert!
My close pal and very much close-friend-of-the-show Ben Mondy has made the jump to Substack with his new
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2. Upbattle returns! This splitboarding weekender in Glencoe and Cairngorm is one of the UK’s rootsiest snowboarding events, and a brilliant way of experiencing the joys of Scottish snowboarding if you’ve never checked it out. More here.
3. I absolutely loved this Dom Joly radio documentary about his quest to discover what being a goth actually means. Click the link to listen (and have that Bauhaus goth classic, that myself and Thomas Campbell spent ten minutes geeking out on when we spoke for his forthcoming listener question special episode of the show, as a taster).
4. How has it taken me so long to watch Slow Horses? It’s so good and Jackson Lamb might be the best role of Gary Oldman’s career.
5. Documentary? Mockumentary? My pals at Db’s new film The Bagfather has been garnering the plaudits.
6. As regulars will know, I’m a big fan of Cody Townsend’s The Fifty, so I enjoyed this big old GQ long read about the intricacies of his Quixotic quest, even if it is written in the chest-beating style seemingly beloved of all Stateside outdoor writers.
7. New podcast/community alert! Boardwomen Co, based on my south coast home turf. Have a listen above.
8. Big up Succession creator Jesse Armstrong for putting this money where his mouth is with Greenpeace.
9. Is this Dryrobe/Wiley pastiche, filmed in my adopted hometown of Brighton, the cringiest thing ever made? It might well be.
10. Mainstream takes on our world are usually rubbish, so I enjoyed this measured Guardian piece about skier Jeremie Heitz (and if you’ve yet to watch La Liste, then really what are you waiting for?)
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