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"God is opening his doors for a moment, and his orchestra is playing the fifth symphony." (Sibelius, letter to a friend, 1914)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:12:57 +0000

"God is opening his doors for a moment, and his orchestra is playing the fifth symphony." (Sibelius, letter to a friend, 1914):

Despite the presence of British composers David Bedford and Andrew Poppy contributing arrangements to Strawberry Switchblade’s one and only (eponymous) album, it was …

Journey to the Moon (Kutlug Ataman)

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:56:08 +0000

Journey to the Moon (Kutlug Ataman):

The song ‘Dave the Moonman’ by the Scottish band Looper concerns a character, the very ‘Dave’ of the title, who spends his time at parties biting people’s ears of about the why the moon…

Fantastic Mr Fox

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:56:08 +0000

Fantastic Mr Fox:

Mid-way through Wes Anderson’s highly enjoyable new film of Roald Dahl’s classic, Mr Fox (George Clooney) turns to his wife (Meryl Streep) in a moment of apparently earnest contrition, and…

Apocalypse Now: Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck College

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:42:13 +0000

Apocalypse Now: Slavoj Zizek at Birkbeck College:

Arriving some forty minutes before the scheduled start time, the room was already packed full. I just about managed to get one of the very last available seats, by inconveniencing several…

The Return of the Atheist Bus Campaign

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:17:26 +0000

The Return of the Atheist Bus Campaign:

“Please don’t label me,” begs the Benetton child on the billboard poster that marks the latest phase of the notorious, and increasingly inacurrately named, Atheist Bus Campaign, “Let me…

Capture the Fun

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:12:56 +0000

Capture the Fun:

It is curious how, the more ‘fun’ becomes the all-consuming mantra of modern times, the harder it apparently is to grasp. I am thinking of the new mobile phone ad which demands…

Rose cancels, Lost Robots replace

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:31:20 +0000

Rose cancels, Lost Robots replace:

Unfortunately Ms. Dougall has been forced, once again, to cancel due to circumstances beyond her control. However, all is not lost, for the mighty Lost Robots have agreed to step in as last…

Last Week at Special Sounds . . .

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:09:47 +0100

Last Week at Special Sounds . . .:

Last week at Special Sounds, we abandoned our usual pop quiz in favour of something a little more creatively stimulating. Kicking off the evening, I invited our assembled guests to write me…

Living with the Dead

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:44:29 +0100

Living with the Dead:

In the immediate wake of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the London Underground, Mark Fisher wrote about the extraordinary resemblance between police instructions to shoot a…

"Well, do you think they have a chance of winning? You are on their side, aren't you?"

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:31:13 +0100

"Well, do you think they have a chance of winning? You are on their side, aren't you?":

Speaking of Le Camelot, the character in L’Atalante played by Gilles Margaritis, during an interview on the DVD of The Complete Jean Vigo, Georgian director Otar Iosseliani…

Le géant isore

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:52:31 +0100

Le géant isore

Paris, 13th arr.

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:46:09 +0100

Paris, 13th arr.

Because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the Little Other - I mutilate you.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:50:16 +0100

Because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the Little Other - I mutilate you.

Another view from the Woolwich Ferry.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:43:36 +0100

Another view from the Woolwich Ferry.

Let’s hear it for the Woolwich Ferry, the free ferry that...

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:42:27 +0100

Let’s hear it for the Woolwich Ferry, the free ferry that has carried cars and foot passengers across the Thames from South Woolwich to North Woolwich, every ten minutes, since 1889.

"Fellas, coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives"

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:05:19 +0100

"Fellas, coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives":

Agent Cooper once said that when two events, pertaining to the same object of enquiry, happen at the same time, we must pay the strictest attention. On this particular occasion, the object…

MONTT MARDIE + MOUSTAHCE OF INSANITY + SAME ACTOR + MONSTER...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:35:05 +0100

MONTT MARDIE + MOUSTAHCE OF INSANITY + SAME ACTOR + MONSTER BOBBY AT OLIVER’S, NEVADA STREET, GREENWICH, TOMORROW, AUGUST 26TH. 8PM.

Leave me to weep - the music of Antichrist

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:58:13 +0100

Leave me to weep - the music of Antichrist:

The presence, amongst Antichrist’s end credits of “Research on Music” (amongst, similarly, “Research on Misogyny”, “Research on Anxiety”, “Research on Horror”, none of which are mentioned on …

Pop is an Empty Signifier

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:33:11 +0100

Pop is an Empty Signifier:

Tom Ewing’s recent ‘poptimist’ column in Pitchfork might be seen as a kind of requiem for the pop charts, bearing a certain nostalgia for a time when the pop charts was a place of dispute…

Chaos Reigns: Lars von Trier - Antichrist

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:33:50 +0100

Chaos Reigns: Lars von Trier - Antichrist:

Twenty-five years after the video nasties act, Lars von Trier’s latest film, Antichrist, has shown conclusively that, now at least, the British Board of Film Classification (responsible…