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MMIX
So here we are, at the start of a bright new year; and here I am, thumping the keyboard like a sausage-fingered caveman, trying to hammer out my first blog post of 2009. It's also my first blog post in almost a month, but who's keeping track of these things, anyhow? Something odd has recently occurred to me. Actually, it's occurred to me at regular intervals over the last eight or nine years, but now's as good a time as any to share it with others. That's probably not the best thing to do when something odd occurs to you, [...]
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 [...]
