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Six Feet, Infinite Dimensions
The first in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Re-watching Six Feet Under, the temptation creeps in to make it a story about Nate Fisher’s hair. It’s fun to watch the first season, with its eruptions from the afterlife and the subconscious, and to marvel at how our man always looks like he’s…
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Pick Three – Bloody Noses EP
Richard Thompson’s last three studio albums have been a laugh – more Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, but with a focus on the joy of making a racket to match his late mid-2000s live shows. His Electric Trio has seldom went unaccompanied on record but the joy they take in each other’s playing is…
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Pick Three – Ekumen
Carrying on from yesterday’s Le Guin theme, the first in a series of posts where I pick my top three tracks from a random record, in this case the self-titled debut album from New Orleans hardcore band Ekumen. Every track on Ekumen is great, most of them are extremely short, and the band makes a…
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Hey Now, You’re (An) All Star
My current thought about Ursula K. Le Guin is that for someone so ubiquitous her work is strangely underrated. Le Guin was an institution for a long time before her death. She’s now so beloved that any reminder of the fact she was a part of a living, thriving, thinking community for several decades can…
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Trash Humpers
(Harmony Korine, 2009) When I was living and doing political activism outside of Glasgow, I spent a little time at community council meetings in areas that were either rural or suburban. The priorities in these meetings were often new to me, and I tried to take even the frustrating parts as a learning experience. There…
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LGH portal #4
Writing about Rammstein made me think about this video I made to promote my LGH comics a few years back. At the request of artist and pal Jules Scheele, I once re-did this video so it featured Rammstein’s ‘Keine Lust’ instead of my own ‘Scary Neighbours’ on the soundtrack. I lost that version when I…
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