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Flowers in a Foreground – Eddie Campbell, Frank Miller and the art of everyday life
I’m revisiting some of my earlier writing on Eddie Campbell’s work in preparation for a short post on his latest book. This piece was originally written in September 2007 for a site that no longer exists. I later re-tooled for an early LGH comic I’m now actively embarrassed by – the two text pieces were…
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Pick Three – U-God verses
One thing I didn’t expect from June’s Wu-Tang show was how much fun it would be to shout along with U-God’s verses. The crowd was at its loudest doing karaoke versions of Ol’ Dirty’s ‘Shimmy Shimmy Ya’ and ‘Got Your Money’ at the end, and during ‘Protect Ya Neck’ everyone screamed “MOVE IT ON YOUR…
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Comic Book Men
The third in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Previously: Six Feet, Infinite Dimensions “I made a terrible decision and brought us to a horrible place” I would be surprised if ‘Grinding the Corn’ (S4E9) was anyone’s favourite Six Feet Under episode. Claire’s adventures in homosexuality take a sharp turn into calamity here,…
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Run that Back #1
Remember linkblogging? My most Grampa Simpson opinions are all about how the internet was better when I was young. Maybe the culture has shaped by brain in a way it can’t snap back from, or maybe certain decentralised, idiosyncratic forms of communication were better suited for human requirements. Either way, this is a 2003 style…
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Pick Three – Le Tigre
We had a panic attack on our way to see Le Tigre at Glasgow Barrowlands and almost missed the show. Someone forgot to send a message, we were late, the meeting spot stopped selling food without warning. Minor stuff, the sort of troubles you get past every day. Still, sometimes these things add up to…
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Untouchable – Shuhada’ Sadaqat RIP
Alfred Soto‘s tribute sent me back to Marcello Carlin’s superb write-up of I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, and to this: But she, Sinéad, is still willing to give life another try, declines to die, will not be dissuaded no matter how much shit is rained down upon her head or jammed into her heart;…
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Seems We’ve Been Here Before
Far from being separate or additional then, climate and our cost-of-living concerns are absolutely wrapped up in each other. Which is why so many “green policies” are so well-placed to tackle both issues concurrently. Retrofitting houses with e.g. low-carbon heating, solar panels and energy efficiency can improve the quality of buildings to bring down both…
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Hypnotised Chickens
We’ve been on COVID shutdown since my partner tested positive on Saturday, which is my excuse for watching Werner Herzog’s Stroszek (1977) two nights in a row. The second time around I watched it with Tom Scharpling and AP Mike’s commentary… …which is about as good a substitute for company as you could hope for.…
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Mise en abyme
Similar to the above but seemingly unrelated, we have The Paradox of Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Sopranos. There’s an episode of The Sopranos where Uncle June’s dementia has got so bad that he sees a clip of Curb and thinks it’s footage of his life. The vague visual resemblance between Larry David/Jeff Greene and…
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With One Leg Up
If you want to give a physiotherapist a laugh, I recommend being forty and conspiring to develop a Flo Rida related injury. Your physio will love to hear about how you fuct an old knee injury by demonstrating how shorty got low on the dancefloor. It’s dumb. It’s retro. It’ll make them feel young again!…
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