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The Definite Article Strikes Back
Every time I've gone out this week I've encountered this poster advertising The Final Destination, the fourth and latest installment in the popular teen horror movie franchise. Now, I haven't really paid much attention to any installments of popular teen horror movie franchises since I was about - well - twelve, but this poster really caught my eye. It had nothing to do with its macabre imagery, its (not one, but two) toe-curlingly bad taglines or its tantalising promise of GLORIOUS, EYE-POPPING 3D (at selected theaters, see local press for details). No, it was something altogether less obvious. Something that [...]
Just Imagine Stan Lee’s Watchmen
I'm probably the last person in the world to have seen this, but here's a remix of Watchmen in the style of Stan Lee. It made me chuckle. 'Nuff said.
John Dillinger’s John Thomas
The strange and lurid urban myth about Prohibition-era outlaw John Dillinger and his unfeasibly large old chap
Latitude Festival 2009: Jeffrey Lewis’ Acoustic Set (Part 2)
Standing behind a clear perspex podium, sporting some fresh facial hair and holding one of the most battered-looking gee-tars in the business, lo-fi 'anti-folk' hero Jeffrey Lewis apologised to a packed crowd in the Latitude Festival's Poetry Arena for the last-minute cancellation of his eagerly-awaited lecture on the seminal comic-book, Watchmen. It was scheduled to take place earlier that day and - after providing a grim, poignant and sometimes harrowing account of why he couldn't make it - Lewis offered to make up for his regrettable no-show by doing something rather special after the gig: He'd sit under a tree [...]
