September 2010
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“I’m not convinced entirely subjective reviews are the answer. There is...”
– Mark Fisher, on The Guardian blog.
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THIS IS A SPONSORED BLOG POST. I AM A CULTURAL...
So I got an email a couple of weeks ago from a lady at Canongate Books. She’d found me on Twitter and noticed I was a David Shrigley fan so she was offering me a copy of his new retrospective collection. I was all like “ummm… I don’t really do ‘proper’ reviews anymore because I’m a cynical bastard who hates everything” but then she was like...
“She wants to go to LA dressed only in a steaming cloud of evaporated piss.”
– I’ve been dreaming about being Lady Gaga again.
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“Dahl’s life story, it turns out, is less a normal human biography than a series...”
– NYmag.com on Roald Dahl
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Top 5 favourite bits from My Romantic History,...
1 - The bit where the main dude said that a man’s Sunday morning erection was proof of the existence of God. “Take that Dawkins” etc.
2 - The bit where the Magic Tree fell out of a box.
3 - The bit where the main dude said “I’ve never met a girl yet who I can’t make chuck me.”
4 - The bit at the samba drumming gig where you couldn’t hear...
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Why season four of The Wire is the best one:
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been watching The Wire again from the beginning, and I’m nearly at the end of season four now. When I first watched them all, season four was my favourite, but time has eroded my memory so that all I could pin that on was Prez and Bunny Colvin taking it in turns to be Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds. When I finished off season three the other...
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