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Book, movie, exhibition, show reviews.
I've been sitting on this one for a while, mostly because I couldn't think of who would want to take reading suggestions - about upcomings books, no less - from me. But then again, why not? Maybe there's someone out there who didn't know they needed this particular list. You know, I'm one of those …
Continue reading "4 upcoming books by female authors to buy and read over the next 6 months"
This will be more of a memento than a regular blog post, I suppose. Last week I got a chance to see the art collection at the Nottingham Castle Museum. It was only a brief visit, yet I made a point of jotting down the titles of all the paintings that caught my fancy for …
This post is, in a way, a continuation of this review I wrote some time ago about the social screensaver The Endless Forest and the art of purposeless gaming. I won't go into all the details of how the TALE of TALES project is all kinds of marvellous and then some, but I will go …
Continue reading "The Joy of Purposeless Gaming, or the Art of Doing Nothing"
Please try to ignore my almost fetishistic love for abstract and/or metaphoric titles. This post is about a lovely little art exhibition at the Walker art gallery, Liverpool. I'm talking about The Living and the Dead, an exhibition of some of visual artist John Kirby's paintings and sculptures, which is on until the 15th April …
Continue reading "On the Margins of an Unspeakable “Something”"
Well, this comes right on time for Halloween, I suppose, the best time for reviewing ghost stories. I'll start by admitting that The Small Hand is the first and only book by Susan Hill that I have ever read. I've known about her books for a long time and I've been meaning to read what …
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Finally got round to watching Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville/ The Triplets of Belleville last night. And I must say: if you're in for an extraordinary car chase, then this is the movie to watch! 
First, it has three of my favourite things in it: trains, wicked old ladies and nightmares. Then, it's …
I ended up purging quite a few of my older posts from 1-2 years ago. I guess this tends to happen when I'm about to leave a piece of my life behind: I prefer to erase all incriminating evidence. Well, the stuff I deleted was mostly debris anyway, so I don't suppose the on-line multiverse'll …
Continue reading "“Death is the only path that leads to birth”"
I am aware it looks like I've been lured "to the other side", also known as "the great and frightful RL". Sadly - or happily, depends which way you look or squint at it -, however, I am still here, somewhere, stalking better updated blogs and other such online haunts. But yes, I have been …
I remain quite baffled that, apparently, most of the stuff I enjoy is either out of print/stock or really difficult to come by. I went through this when I was looking for Angela Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman", which, for mysterious reasons, was reprinted by Penguin (with an absolutely horrendous cover, if …
Continue reading "Of Perverse Pleasures and Murder Mysteries"
I'm generally not a big fan of Modernist art, myself, but every once in a while I happen to stumble upon a an expressive little exhibition that leaves a mark upon my consciousness and of which I find myself thinking for days afterwards. So now please let me urge you, if you happen to be …
Continue reading "Haunting Displacement: Conceptual Art by David Rushton"
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