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"Art for art's sake Money for God's sake" - 10CC From BBC News: Artist Tracey Emin has said she is thinking of leaving the UK in protest about being overtaxed. In a Sunday Times interview she said she was "very seriously considering leaving Britain," adding: "I'm simply not willing to pay tax at 50%." Far be it for me to undermine your significant cultural significance here, Tracey, but doesn't this behaviour - technically speaking, of course - put you in the same category of artist as, say, Jim Davidson, Paul Daniels or Phil Collins? Phil, as you might remember, was [...]

When Worlds Collide

My wonderful six year-old stepdaughter, Lily, is a currently a big fan of Tom Waits, The Three Amigos and Zac Efron. While I'm naturally proud of her Tom Waits/Three Amigos allegiances (who wouldn't be?), I was always a bit sniffy about the whole Zac Efron thing. I mean, he's the basketball-playing, song-and-dance pretty boy from High School Musical. That sort of thing doesn't really chime with my Uncut Magazine-reading demographic. Tonight I discovered that Zac Efron will be appearing in a Richard Linklater period film called Me and Orson Welles. I'm a massive Orson Welles fan. It looks like the [...]

Dillinger at the Museum

In which the author proposes combining Ben Stiller Night at the Museum comedy films with the lurid urban legend about John Dillinger's John Thomas

Wherever you go, there you are…

Saturday night's Technical Difficulties show on Rhubarb Radio was fun. Thanks again to Danny, Phil, Rich and Jane for inviting me along. It's available to listen again, and you can do so by clicking this: The theme of the show was Japan, so there was plenty of cool and groovy J-Pop music on the playlist. In case you don't know, J-Pop - or ジェイポップ, as they say in Japan - is a term used to describe popular music of Japanese origin. The 'J' stands for Japanese, you see. Of course, I only managed to work this out for myself [...]

Jesus Gonna Be Here

What I did want to do was Find The Story, get about and report on some hidden weirdness, odd sub-culture or unsavoury practice that I could expose. And I found nothing but a bunch of nice people, sorry. My Rhubarb Radio presenter pal - self-confessed 'open-minded atheist' Danny Smith - went to a Christian music festival, suprised himself by having a good time and has crafted a rather excellent, obervation-rich write-up on his experiences. It's here.

Madder, Badder

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm a fan of the German filmmaker Werner Herzog. As much as I enjoy his documentary films like 'Grizzly Man', I'm glad to see he's got what us philistines like to call a Proper Movie coming out soon. So far as I can tell, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans isn't a sequel to Abel Ferrara's superbly twisted sick-flick from 1992. Rather, its a different story about a different cop who exists in the same fictional universe as Harvey Keitel's notorious high-protein squeegee man. From what I've seen so far, Herzog's Bad [...]

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