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Footwork #1
On Saturday 12th August I made a mistake: I crossed the river Clyde when there was an international cycling tournament in town. I’d had some experience of this the week before, when I’d skipped round heras fencing and made my way to Buchanan bus station in the early hours of the morning on my way…
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A Tornado in My House
The fourth in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Previously: Meanwhile, in the mid ’90s: In my last post on this subject, I made a passing reference to Six Feet Under being weird about bisexuality. This is a theme that really flares up in the third season, when Claire goes to art school…
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Run That Back #2
Still alive, still linkblogging, still avoiding the attentions of a disapproving god!
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Pick Three – I Inside the Old Year Dying
A hard album to describe if not to listen to, I Inside the Old Year Dying has sent music writers scrabbling for the press release. Three details recur in reviews: that field recordings are part of the soundscape, that Harvey asked John Parish and Flood to stop her from using “the PJ Harvey voice”, and…
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Pieces of the People We Love
In preparation for a short post on The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell, I’m revisiting some of my earlier writing on Campbell’s work. This time out, I’ve republished what I had to say about The Fate of the Artist on I Love Comics back in 2006. But wait – when you’re going to post…
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No Part is Saved
Like its predecessor, this post was originally written in September 2007 for a blog that no longer exists. I’m republishing it here in preparation for a post on The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell. ‘Crash, roar, smash, plunge. The artist’s journey finishes with him washed ashore on the desert island of his own mental…
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