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"Wire contributor, semi-mythical pop svengali, erstwhile thespian, sampler troubadour and untidy kitchen user" - Owen Hatherley of Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy

"Your songs are pretty little paths - take us somewhere nice." - Elodie Amandine Roy, Applejack Zine
The Geometry of Circles

Via The Crystal World, four short films made for Sesame Street in 1979, with music by Philip Glass. As pointed out on the Very Short List, “Glass is one of the few living…
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The Noughts and Crosses Band at Boogaloo, Highgate, this Thursday July 2nd.

The Noughts and Crosses Band at Boogaloo, Highgate, this Thursday July 2nd.

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The Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson was pronounced dead in a Los Angeles hospital at 2:26 on Friday morning, on Twitter the announcement came several hours earlier. First Jade Goody’s antemortem memorial tribute…
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A multi-musicbox.

A multi-musicbox.

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A gap in the fabric of Charlton.

A gap in the fabric of Charlton.

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Student Occupation at SOAS
Yesterday, around 200 people gathered outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury, London, to protest, and listen to speeches, about the detention and threatened…
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Lamberto Bava & Michele Soavi : Dario Argento's Two Proteges
From the opening half-hour-or-so of Demoni (Demons), one is apt to suspect that its director, Lamberto Bava, had inherited his mentor, Dario Argento’s bloodlust but little of his…
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"You became a priest because you were too much of a coward to do what I do"

When Eli Wallach’s Tuco talks to his brother, the priest, in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, he sets up a structural equivalence between church and bandit. The central, unspoken third…
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The Noughts and Crosses Band at Cafe De Paris, Leicester Square, July 2nd.

The Noughts and Crosses Band at Cafe De Paris, Leicester Square, July 2nd.

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number 3 of my six bagatelles for treated music boxes, this one made entirely from a music box that played the theme tune to the Moomins

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"If you try to close your eyes, you'll tear them apart."

The films of Dario Argento are not whodunnits. There is never never any question: the director is the murderer. If the predilection for point of view shots were not enough, the fact that Argento…

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And another one.

And another one.

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"The Dead Don't Talk."

If Hitchcock’s rule of suspense states that the very terrifying thing that everything in the montage is leading you to expect must never actually happen, in the gialli cycle of films that spanned

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