Stay calm, throughsilver; just write. Write, without proclaiming your need to do so. Just write about the album you told Dunc to buy, without having heard it yourself. That was a good recommendation: you just knew it was exactly what he needed to get on this trip to the UK. You can name this articleContinue reading “Algiers – The Underside of Power”
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Harold and Maude
Hal Ashby (1971) I’ve been on this seventies movie kick of late. I don’t know why: I just tend to obsess about certain things at certain times, and make them “projects”. I see very few of these projects through to completion, and write about fewer still. But that’s the context. Even though it was fetedContinue reading “Harold and Maude”
Interval time
I may or may not have mentioned that I aim to catch up on my evidently not-missed albums of the year lists. Because compulsion dictates a tag-based view make chronological sense, I shan’t cheat and start with the albums of 2016. I’m going to cast my mind back to those halcyon days of 2011 andContinue reading “Interval time”
Australian Open 2017
You may have guessed that it’s been a while since I last wrote about tennis. I’m sure a lot has gone on since then. Let’s see… David Nalbandian retired. And then cheated death. Why did I focus on his shitness back in 2008? Why am I leading with him now? No idea. Novak Djokovic wentContinue reading “Australian Open 2017”