BLOCK BLOG
3: In The Midst Of Death
Like many a regular Freakytrigger feature, my chronological, collecting reviews of Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder novels has recently dried a touch. Not completely due to my own crapness: for the more basic pr[…]

SATURN MOON HAS ATMOSPHERE…
…UNLIKE MOST WETHERSPOON’S PUBS
True in the comedy Russ Abbot sense of atmosphere and pleasingly also true in as much as if the Moon & Sixpence had an atmosphere of just ice particles the drinkers wo[…]

But OK for dawgs?[…]

MEERKATS LEAD TO MOCKERY
You know the rumbling swell of laughter, that starts with one influential person in the office, and then the scrawny middle manager, the one who goes RUNNING, you know the sort don’t you – well, she starts laughin[…]

Duck Season is a minimalist shoestring Mexican comedy, which barely scrapes through its ninety minutes running time with some judicious arty shots of MC’s housing projects at the start. The rest of the film stays firmly inside an apartment wher[…]

Book ’em
Scrapbooking is the purview of sad old ladies with too much time on their hand. Its too cute, too chaotic, too colourful. The fonts are all wrong. They try to hard. There are too many accessories. They try to do things like make pompon[…]

Great Moments:
‘I Can Never Go Home Anymore’ by the Shangri-Las 2:06-2:09
(an occasional series reviewing all of music* a few seconds at a time)
It’s a bittersweet little song about a girl defying her mother’s advice and runni[…]

Rediscovered thanks to Jess’s article which pointed me at web.archive.org. My old website from the 90s had a lot of crap on it, and it is embarassing to discover it still out there in the internet, when i thought it had all been lost in my move[…]

FT Wrecking Everyones Curve
Five years ago!
(Link may not work due to the fucked up way archive.org works. If it doesn’t, just go there and plug in www.freakytrigger.com/juice.html.)
Just think Tom…you could’ve been making mixtapes […]

Quoting other movies is a bog standard way of getting admittedly sometimes shoddy secondhand laffs. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle/Get The Munchies (delete as appropriate) turns an entire film out of this, but not in a Scary Movie derivative w[…]