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New horizons, eh?
A gentle nudge in the direction of... http://the-sphinx-without-a-secret.blogspot.com/ -
Freeview...
Some excellent stuff of late on the More 4 / BBC 4 / BBC 2 type channels; Pinter, Ballard (the superlative "Home", which I hope anybody caught who missed it the first time), 'The History Man'. On Film 4, the Tolpuddle Martyrs epic, "Comrades", by Bill Douglas... which I previously had in an off-air copy from probably the early '90s; this looks ( Read more... ) -
'Where do we go from here...?'
Albert Elms' 'Regression' fades into Lady GaGa's 'Just Dance' (ft. Akon and Colby O'Donis). The uneasy stillness in that beautiful '60s vibraphone and Proustian flute dissolving into waves of Euro-techno electro... And the 'Poker Face' is all Roisin (tac)tics - finally somebody taking this sort of music into the high end of the charts.
'The day ( Read more... ) -
'Darling your voice is like the Home Service...'
Patrick McGoohan (1928-2009 ( Read more... ) -
Can it get much better than...?
Deltron 3030, '3030 ( Read more... ) -
2009: a year of the techno?
It is the big divide in music; those that insist all has to entirely guitar - or more reductively - four piece band-based ( Read more... ) -
Happy new year
Well, farewell to a curio of a year - movement certainly made, but all in flux ( Read more... ) -
Works read in the last two months or so
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Philip Pullman, The Northern Lights
Jeremy Seabrook, Unemployment (not finished yet; particularly interesting parts on Sunderland in the early '80s)
H G Wells, The Time Machine
H G Wells, The Invisible Man
Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Oscar Wilde, 'The Fisherman and His Soul'
Angus Wilson, Such Darling Dodos
Angus ( Read more... ) -
"Blackadder"
Recent documentary cast some interesting light on a rather interesting show. Atkinson came across rather well, perhaps because he has limited his public appearances. It is just a shame that he went on to pander to a pretty low common denominator with most of his film and tv roles since "Bl'adder".
Whilst the first series clearly has its weaknesses ( ( Read more... ) -
The joys of Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rowell
The handiwork of a good few hours' research - which frankly showed how limitless a resource the internet can be. I put this together whilst re-reading some of the plays in Rowell's edition and listening to Gilbert & Sullivan - inspired also by the Wilde I've read of late. I discovered rather a lot about ( Read more... )