Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

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Latitude Festival 2009: Jeffrey Lewis’ Acoustic Set

Here's the wonderful Jeffrey Lewis performing at the Latitude Festival's Poetry Arena in the wee small hours of 19th July 2009. Review to follow. Low-Budget Detective Film: Whistle Past The Graveyard: Birthday Party Song: There's more where this came from.

Latitude Scrapbook: Datarock

Sounding like Talking Heads and looking like Devo-with-ASBOs, they are the mighty Datarock. I wrote about their Latitude Festival set in a previous post, and here's some footage of it that I took with my nifty Kodak z6i pocket camcorder. The migraine-inducing, shaky-cam effect isn't some intentional stylistic embellishment aimed at recapturing the frenetic energy of the live music experience. Rather, it was a direct result of my five year-old stepdaughter Lily sitting on my shoulders while dancing.

20th July 1969

As this is the 40th anniversary of what remains - in my opinion, at least - our species' finest achievement, I'd just like to quote something that Apollo 11 astronaut Ed Mitchell said in the wonderful documentary film, In The Shadow of The Moon. I find it particularly moving: The biggest joy was on the way home. In my cockpit window, every two minutes: The Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the whole 360-degree panorama of the heavens. And that was a powerful, overwhelming experience. And suddenly I realized that the molecules of my body, and the molecules of the [...]

Latitude Festival 2009: Peter and Ben

I've since found on YouTube the short film about a sheep that I was so dismissive towards it in my last post. The film is called Peter and Ben and it's directed by Pinny Grylls. It's quite sweet and I feel rather guilty now. Clare and Lily will certainly like it - and maybe Baby Edie will, too. They'd much prefer a short film about a sheep to a groundbreaking graphic novel.

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