Here’s what I noticed at the wedding disco I was at this Saturday: nobody knows how to dance to The Darkness but everybody wants to. Obviously the standard of dancing at wedding discos is not too high anyway, and there’s a lot of coming a[…]

It’s very annoying to go away for a couple of days and discover that the only book you’ve brought with you is a resounding DUD. This is what happened to me with What Does A Martian Look Like?, filed under ‘popular science’ and[…]

Donald Judd at Tate Modern
I think one of the more interesting artistic phenomena of the Twentieth Century was the move by many artists away from the valorising of the artist’s touch and of craft. This was started by Duchamp with his readymades[…]

Paul Butler
Paul Butler so simple, using tape to cover words in found ads, block out certain aspects of perfect landscapes, and make slick general collages. Even the title of his show is ironic, My Mad Skillz, how much skill does it take to clip an […]

‘Sports Entertainment’
That’s what they call the wrestling in America now – they’ve abandoned all attempt to position it as real sport. There is a bit of different repositioning going on just now. As ILE’s expert D[…]

As you get older, the things you choose to notice in photographs and documentaries change, I think: the inadvertent but evocative things, anyway (which some call “punctum”). So when you’re at school yourself, a school photo from the[…]

As you arrive at Dalston Junction from the West, there’s a graffito to cheer you, high on a whitewashed wall overlooking a little car-park. Its inspiration is a far-too-famous poster of a 60s political icon: it’s a stencil – so it m[…]

I must admit I was getting a bit worried at the underlying message of Big Fish as it proceeded. This terrible old man had spent his whole life constantly lying abotu himself. Oooh-weee. I thought there’s paranoid delusional case at best, or evi[…]

Indeed it is even better that once you are married you still really don’t speak to them all that much. To the extent of not spending much time at home. After all they are just baby making machines who can be easily shut up by white picket fence[…]

A man who spends most of his life away from his family looking after a random town and spending an excessive amount of time with an attractive young woman* is a good a decent husband and father just because he doesn’t shag her.
A lot of people […]