LETTER OF THE WEEK

Years ago in Germany, my wife and I listened to a breakfast show playing a symphony by Mozart followed by live Grateful Dead tracks. This should be Radio 3's template.

Andrew Lacey
Mold, Flintshire

"How odd a figure I must seem to you now, a solitary crank who maroons himself with a TV set and dozens of stacks of dust-jacketed comic books. Don't think I wouldn't appreciate a dramatic visit between two and three in the morning," he told her, "from an intelligent woman in spike heels and a slit skirt, with high-impact accessories ( Read more... )

Rita Lee came back with a frozen Milky Way and some confession magazines and comic books. She read about a miser duck called Uncle Scrooge, and his young duck nephews, whose adventures took place in a city where all the bystanders, the figures on the street, were anthropoid dogs walking erect. Norwood read about Superman and the double-breasted- ( Read more... )

"I can remember a time when I totally believed we were one of the loudest bands in the world. We went on stage to annihilate and to penetrate the depths of any soul. This is a HARD ROCK band that wretched (sic) and exorcised itself each night on stage, defiant to anyone. We were pissed off, and we played down and angry and brilliantly. Most times, ( Read more... )

[Jodorowsky] not only wrote, directed, and scored EL TOPO, but also appeared on screen in virtually every scene as a character none too subtly identified with Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and the Magnificent Seven. Later, the filmmaker revealed that EL TOPO had been shot in sequence and that he'd worn throughout special under shorts with holes for his ( Read more... )

From a television interview ( Read more... )

"What is this association between insects and the human soul? Is it because of the multifarious mystery of them both?"

- Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence) in PHENOMENA (1985 Dir: Dario Argento)

"I don't believe in peace either. I used to think, 'Love and Peace.' But now I have changed my mind about that. I have a new philosophy. It's this: I believe that I am an agent put here to maintain the aspect of equipoise in the universe, the balance of nature. That means warmth and cold, night and day, light and darkness, order and chaos, good and ( Read more... )

WINNER'S VERDICT ON GREGG WALLACE AND JOHN TORODE ( Read more... )

John 'Marmaduke' Dawson ( Read more... )