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Jodorowsky’s King Shot
Some thoughts about King Shot, the ill-fated Alejandro Jodorowsky/David Lynch movie collaboration
AWOL
In case you're wondering why I haven't posted on here for a while, let me take this opportunity to reassure you that I'm not dead.Clare, Lily & I are currently moving house. It all happened rather quickly, and seeing as the new place is currently sans phoneline I haven't had many online opportunities to pontificate in public. Don't worry: it won't last.
11-11-11: Handsworth
(By way of a recap: on 11th November 2008 Clare & I embarked on a public transport-based Kerouacian Carousel around the City of Birmingham. I'm writing up the journey in a series of urban travelblogs that are insterspersed with low humour and the occasional knob gag. Think Bill Bryson meets the late Reg Varney.) As we make our way out of Winson Green along Handsworth New Road, onto Boulton Road, across Soho Road and up Rookery Road, I notice ubiquitous fly posters advertising a Public Enemy gig at the Custard Factory in December.Three things come to mind:I like Public Enemy.I'd [...]
Oscar Deutsch Entertained Our Neighbourhood
Nick Horner's article in last week's Great Barr Observer about the virtual reconstruction of Kingstanding's former Odeon cinema will be of interest to those odd critters like me who have a weakness for magnificent old cinema buildings. I don't know what the technical term for this is, but I suppose you could call us necrocinephiles. Anyhow, I posted about this recently, but in the meantime Nick has since done some proper journalistic legwork and uncovered some additional information. King's Visualisation Lab (KVL) created their VR Odeon Kingstanding in 2003 and their plan was to eventually construct a comprehensive database of [...]
