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ON NAMING
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ON NAMING
back when Gibson’s Neuromancer wz just out, i recall my colleague d4vid qu4ntick getting into a strop abt the fact one of its characters is called “Quine”: he argued – he may be right – that the ONLY reason fo[…]

AVENGERS DAY AFTER
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AVENGERS DAY AFTER
(ie: I was too busy to post this yesterday)
3: THUNDERBIRDS
Oh its easy to link the Thunderbirds movie with The Avengers movie. They are both inferior versions of a televsion classic, right? Wrong. As I posited here – a strai[…]

A charming idea
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A charming idea, finely realised: untrue London stories.[…]

Pulp It
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Pulp It
Bob Mizer is a good photographer, an interesting formal experimenter,a master at the boring, the sexual, the banal, the aspirational, thejoyous and the all American. He isn’t really a pornographer, though his work has mostly to do with […]

Whistle while you drink
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Whistle while you drink — the Snow White Cafe in Hollywood was chosen as a meeting spot by a number of us in LA on Saturday pre-disco movie madness across the street at the Egyptian. The selling point is that ol’ Walt himself started the[…]

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“BITE THE APPLE!”
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“BITE THE APPLE!”
Oh dear dear, dear me. I had heard about it. I knew it existed. I read a review here and there but I had happily forgotten what I had learned. And the reason why it was happy was that, years after I had been aware of[…]

STAND AND DELIVER!
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STAND AND DELIVER!
I actually sorta think that the last few years in particular have been a bit of a golden age when it comes to what I increasingly think is ‘my’ (borrowed) era of music, seen through a distorting lens of time and from th[…]

FT Top 100 Films 51: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
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FT Top 100 Films
51: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
Martin Skidmore says:
This has a lot of the things everyone likes in Woody’s work, and almost none of the stuff people don’t. It’s not trying to be Bergman at all, though its apparently […]

I wasn’t a Goblin
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D&D, Role playing, none of it interested me. There were about half a dozen kids at my school who lived this life. These were the kids you never saw at lunch hour. As soon as the bell went, they scurried away. It was a great ploy, the thugs would[…]

DJ CASPER
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DJ CASPER in HOW NOT TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO. DJ Casper has just shot down Tottenham Court Road in an delapidated open top bus with a bunch of bored looking punters on board, one cameraman at the back. As the lights changed to green, suddenly the music[…]

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