All hail Deems Taylor! — so Fantasia is one of those weird what-ifs of film history, archpopulist Walt Disney figuring ‘why not?’ and aiming for abstract within representation and getting a slew of talented characters and artists to[…]

“he entered the forest and the phantoms came to meet him“
between my house and my friend T’s new house (see story in link) lie the Hackney Marshes (well sorta, if you take a bit of a northward curve on the way): the marshes i first[…]

Quick recap: Freaky Trigger has launched a fundraising appeal for Exeter City Football Club, ‘wittily’ titled Grecian Earn. Part of the fundraising involves anonymous benefactors giving me their unwanted indie CDs for me to put beyond the[…]

Rick James RIP — yeah, yeah, cocaine, Chappelle, what did the hand say etc. etc. etc.
What matters for me at least:
Me at 10: “What the…’coming home intoxicated?’…what a weird line. I like this song.”
M[…]

FOR AGAINST
Echelons
I’m still scratching my head over this one, how the first album from 1986 by arguably the longest running US band dedicated to a love of That Early Eighties Post-Punk Gloom-Tinged Sound awaited being reissued for all these […]

Human traffic — I was a deluded young man. I was in England, in London, it was 1992. I waited to cross a London street. “All will be politeness and serenity here, no jaywalking or rude drivers or anything like that.” I didn&#821[…]

FT Top 100 Films
47: GOLDFINGER
Best James Bond film ever! This may well be contentious but when you think of all the scenes in it, you have to admit it has it all:
The jet-pack!
Pussy Galore
The attack on Fort Knox
The fight on the Cable Car with Ja[…]

On the back wall of Rhodes & Mann there’s something which looks like a family tree. On closer inspection, it seems to be some kind of typology, lists of related things. A little list of love-related things, a little list of war-related thi[…]

No more decisive moments :(
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)[…]

Digital Spy’s BB Forum is an unpleasant place to spend any time, but this large post on Jason – Grand Architect of BB5 was worth a read, if only because everyone I know is stunned that he managed to get this far. There’s even a chan[…]