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I wrote a short story based on my assertion that we underestimate the important role of camping in the generation-defining event of Woodstock. The story is called The Sex, Drugs And Rock ‘N’ Roll Were Incidental and is published in the new issue of Five Dials. Download and read it for free. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d281′).each( function(e) [...] There are twenty-eight versions of Purple Rain on my iPod, all performed by Prince at various times in the last twenty seven years. These twenty-eight versions are by no means every performance of Purple Rain Prince has ever undertaken but they are a representative sample, certainly for our needs; each performance reveals something of his life at that time, and something different about the song. Listening to them all back to back takes about five hours. I will write twenty eight short essays about Purple Rain – here is the [...] In praise of the otherworldly genius of Sun [...] My brief appreciation of Russell T Davies, the man who revived Doctor [...] Just got this from Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler. It is the first page of my essay in the new issue of The Idler, and it looks beautiful. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d236′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); My brief appreciation of Grant Morrison, based on my interview with him in the early Noughties, an interview I spent mostly halfway up a step-ladder and wrapped in the American [...] I was being fitted for my wedding suit when Raymond called. I told him that it wasn’t a good time to talk, that I had a tailor attending to my inside leg on a hot day. Raymond ignored me and said: “You promised me that, if I ever really needed it, you would move heaven [...] Continuing the series of excerpts from my essay on the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, due to be published in The Idler in 2010. A prehistoric track stretches across 250 miles from the Dorset coast to the Norfolk Wash. For over five thousand years, people have walked or ridden this trail. The first section we know [...]
John Carpenter on the set of Ghosts of Mars with Ice Cube Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star (1974), a wiseass repudiation of 2001: A Space [...] It’s hard for 21st Century whippersnappers to appreciate the impact Nigel Kneale’s 1950s Quatermass serial had on the nation. Back when there was only one channel, and the programmes all went out live, a writer could step out of Alexandria Palace, look out across the TV aerials rigging the dark London skyline and know that [...] |
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