Before the advent of YouTube, streaming and the sharing of MP3s, people made loads of money selling singles. It was a boom industry, flogging £1.29 cassettes or £1.99 CDs to fans, or just curious musicos, by the bucketload. Billions, it was worth. A bloody packet. Because millions of singles got bought, and the pop chartsContinue reading “Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road”
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More Reviews
I’m thinking about reviewing more films and books on this blog. Not many people read this blog but, rather than sporadically ranting or praising something here, and thus meaning this blog has no shape, would more review-y type writing be of interest? Feel free to comment. To get an idea of previous review-y stuff see:Continue reading “More Reviews”
Book Review: The Shock of the Fall
I’m reading an awful lot more than normal these days. Not reading more that’s awful, you understand, I’m just using flowery language to sound interesting. How’s it working? Anyhow, for the first time, since I was 7 years old, I’ve read a book in a day. Cover to cover. I’m serious. Obviously I loved it,Continue reading “Book Review: The Shock of the Fall”
Film Review: The Day of the Jackal
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I’ll put my hands up here and admit that I am in awe, not only of this film, but of its lead actor, Edward Fox, the Jackal himself. The bloody Jackal I make this admission so that you can accept from word go that this is not an impartial and purely…
The value of nothing
The greatest development of the 20th century was undoubtedly the internet. Whilst there were bigger and more immediately impactful developments, like the hydrogen bomb for example, it’s the internet that has truly unwrapped the world. The flow of information, once hidden or difficult to gain, is now like a champagne cork frozen into a permanentContinue reading “The value of nothing”
The beginnings of something
Truthfully, it wasn’t going well. It hadn’t been going very well at all for the last ten minutes at least and, if I was really an truly honest, I would even have said that it was rapidly disintegrating as a negotiation. If I’d had the temerity to still refer to it as that. So IContinue reading “The beginnings of something”
Excerpt from the book – a nastyish bit
Outside of the fake castle wall of the pub the sounds of crunching and the occasional growls of play at the removal of flesh and sinew from bones, and the plaintive sounding but victorious barks were persisting. The dogs were settling in for a long meal and, as dogs do, were intending on consuming everyContinue reading “Excerpt from the book – a nastyish bit”
Hiring a Van
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For most men in this day and age, an age of information technology and electronic communication, we go to work, sit at a desk and tip-tap away at our keyboards and feel all very clever and important about whatever mindless and irrelevant form-filling and box-ticking we’re engaged in. There are few…
New Year’s Resolutions – Why the hell not.
Not so long ago I’d have been the first person to pour scorn on the idea of a new year’s resolution which makes me a cynical shit, but then I was (and still am) like that with lots of things. Fortunately, like many people, I am also prone to radically changing my mind about certainContinue reading “New Year’s Resolutions – Why the hell not.”
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