A cursory glance at my blog might give the impression that we’re all going to hell in a handcart (copyright Richard Littlejohn, Jeremy Clarkson, Rod Liddle and other great minds of our times). There’s the screw-up around the Haiti disaster with the race to impose the Shock Doctrine on a traumatised nation and the slo-o-ow […]
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Caught the blockbuster disaster movie 2012 last night having been attracted by the wall-size cut-outs of California tipping into the sea on display at my local Odeon. Hollywood does the date-sensitive apocalypse predicted by various sects and dishes up a full meat feast for the eyes. Unfortunately, this is a film realised by giants and
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Madam Miaow’s video shot from three seats away Well, that’s divas for you. Lucky she has circus skills. We had top seats for Monday’s Noisettes gig at the Shepherds Bush O2 Empire thanks to Bill and Rachel, guitarist Daniel Smith’s parents. Ah! Nuthin’ like sitting in comfort sipping Strongbow from a plastic mug, I’m that
Anna Chen – 9 October 2009 The West divides Asian women into dangerous Dragon Ladies and passive Lotus Blossoms, the deep, collective psychological template for a feminised China, and codifies it across the culture, in this instance in opera. Giacomo Puccini creates the submissive, tragic, Cho Cho San in his 1904 opera of David Belasco’s
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Curious how the significant places of one’s childhood that once seemed vast appear so much smaller when you visit them years later. Last night (Monday 5th October), the Hammersmith’s Apollo looked minuscule compared with the days when it was called the Odeon and I queued all night to get front row tickets for David Bowie
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Madam Miaow with Park Bench genii Stephen and Charlotte Noel not reading his short story South London victory Last night saw the North versus South slam-dunk poetry playoff between Norf and Sarf London at the ingenious Park Bench installation in an empty shop in Camden Town. Inspired by Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square
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