February 2012
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I-Dentity
I wrote this a while back and promptly forgot to publish it. Gah!
“When we talk about the imponderables of life, we don’t really mean that we can’t ponder them. We mean that we can’t stop. Hence the conversation: a Sargasso of monologues that were all attracted to the noise. Some of the voices are talking murder while thinking it to be medicine. Others, the blessed ones, are talking reason....
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WatchStunning.
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“Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don’t have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti...”
– Jack White, Observer Music Monthly, 2004.
Jack White to appear on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Lindsay Lohan, March 3rd 2012
The sight and sound of your hero crumbling into pure, powdered, personal disappointment.
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Convex Mancave - WHAT THEY COULDN'T PRINT
Not really. But we did get interviewed by the massively great Fluid Radio a few weeks ago, and by necessity a lot of my drivel was cut out. Here’s the full text from my contribution, if any of you could possibly care.
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What I really love about this project is how much of a marked contrast it is to anything else I’m involved in. Greyhound...
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WatchThe new single, Badger, from Hiva Oa - it’s so good that it’s actually a bit embarrassing.
Saturday night looms.
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TONIGHT!!!!!
Matt plays the opening night of the Glasgow Short Film Festival, with an all-star backing troupe of Lorcan from Meursault and some annoying blogger.
Come come come.
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Jonathan Meades on France
This man has pretty much become my hero over the last few years, and last weeks’ episode, ‘A Biased Anthology of Parisian Peripheries’, is pretty much as good as anything he’s ever done.
“People are defined by the religious, ethnic or linguistic group they are born into. Identity is determined by community, rather than by the individual. Cultural diversity inhibits...