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It has come to my attention that perhaps people aren't completely interested in pre-ordering books or records: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/09/pre-...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 11h

"I’ve found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing." – Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“It’s not enough to reject the Nobel Prize, you have to not deserve it in the first place.” - Guy Debord

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.” - Robert Wyatt

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The very first review The Air Contains Honey has ever received: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/10/kate...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Self-awareness without change.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The sea moves but not in the direction of most things. I felt sure that most things moved from left to right or in the reverse. But the sea has an entirely other relationship to space; it seems to move backwards, pushing at the end of it." - Renee Gladman, Calamities

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothing shows through.” – Paul Valéry, Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself." - Antonio Tabucchi, Time Ages in a Hurry

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the artists I admire are such a strange combination of completely open and completely stubborn.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it." - Jericho Brown

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just spent a few days writing to people asking if they'd be willing to write about The Air Contains Honey record. Or play it on their radio shows. And it gave me the strange feeling that in our Spotify era music means something different than it meant when I was young.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“I think of myself more as a former artist. But I used to do many different things. I didn’t think of it like this at the time, but since you’re asking me now I think that was the point, to do as many different things as possible.” radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/10/seri...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I was young I think I wanted to be some sort of "cult writer." But now that I am in fact some sort of cult writer, I have the strange feeling that people don't even really know what that is anymore.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've noticed when writing I often instinctively choose a word that's just a little bit off, just slightly different than what I mean, while still being rather close to what I mean. I suppose this is out of a desire to keep everything off-kilter, ambiguous and open.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Change often functions more like a relay race, with new protagonists picking up where the last left off.” – Rebecca Solnit, No Straight Road Takes You There

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I am not myself with people […] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too." - Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Living a love while refusing it is a very strange business.” - Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I never fit in at school. I held grudges against the others, though I liked them. Ever the good student, I got pressed into a mould and what got squeezed out took the form of a brick. So I picked it up and threw it." – Anne Lardeux, The Second Substance (Translated by Pablo Strauss)

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“What happened to St-Pierre Plamondon? How does one go from genial Gen X liberal who touts his non-white friends in speeches to scorched-earth nationalist who trades in linguistic boogeymen and vilified ethnicities?”

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Not too many people wanted to grant that maybe schools really are political institutions teaching power to the powerful and something unpalatable and self-destructive to the weak." – June Jordan, Problems of Language in a Democratic State

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“To be making something as yet unformed, unknown—to be living in a deferred moment—is the most seductive way to exist.” - Moyra Davey, Polyvalence

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons." – Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I’m thinking of a labor movement, but one very different than the kind we’ve already seen. A labor movement that manages to finally ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people." - David Graeber

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Most of what is called privilege has nothing to do with thriving or joy; this is why privileged white men are some of the most emotionally stunted, closed-off people alive today." - carla bergman & Nick Montgomery, Joyful Militancy

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some more information and photos for The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes: www.instagram.com/p/Dda3h9JjuFm/

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With anti-capitalists like me capitalism is in no immediate danger.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From life experience I have observed that people like books better than they like theatre. And they like music better than they like books.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible." - Alice Oswald

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Jean Cocteau said he preferred cats to dogs because no one has ever seen a police cat." – Michel Tournier

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Poetry reaches the unsaid, and leaves it unsaid.” - Etel Adnan

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've never put out a record before and we've been working on this one for about four years. Over twenty people all singing and playing. I think there's definitely some magic in it: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Now, when my work expresses loss or failure, I no longer say, get rid of that.” - Mei Mei Berssenbrugge

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I wanted to scream through the hot night that strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope…" - Antoine Volodine, Minor Angels

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today the very first single by The Air Contains Honey is out in the world. It's called "Sexuality" and the lyric is a quote from Kathy Acker: theaircontainshoney.bandcamp.com/album/the-ai...

theaircontainshoney.bandcamp.com

The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes, by The Air Contains Honey

11 track album

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Art is one thing you can do with your pain.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There was a period of my life, perhaps influenced by "poptimism," when I felt I should be trying to break my work into the "mainstream." More recently I have realized the obvious: that this is this little more than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole (except considerably more unrealistic.)

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I am a real minimalist, because I don’t do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating.” - Robert Wyatt

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Fear stalks the land. (As usual; so what else is new?)" – Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"To kill a human being in order to defend an idea is not to defend an idea, it is to kill a human being." - Jean-Luc Godard, Notre Musique

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“But for me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.” - Toni Morrison

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's almost a definition of art that what we think is the important art of our time will not necessarily be what people in the future think of as the important art of our time.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some Favourite Non-Fiction Books: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the right context, singing and dancing can really be some of the most beautiful expressions of resistance.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sometimes I wonder: if someone were to write a book about my life, what would they put in and what would they leave out. Also: how might I live my life doing only the things that would be left out.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some passages from My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“When I teach translation or talk about translation at events, one of my aims is to be approachable, which is different from when I’m performing on stage in bands, where I wanted to appear aggressively happy.” ― Jen Calleja, Fair: The Life–Art of Translation

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