After the party I drove her home. Day was breaking as I stopped outside her flat. “Thanks for the lift,” she said. I lit a fag. She paused, “Come in if you like”. I exhaled. I pretended to misunderstand. “Thanks, but coffee’s probably the last thing I need. Gonna head home”. She looked me in …
Can you actually call this Iron Butterfly? Wunderkind Erik Braunn may be back after missing the last outing, and Ron Bushy is still competently hitting drum heads with two sticks, but glaringly missing are Doug Ingle and Lee fuckin’ Dorman, two of the most talented (if not the only talented) members of the band. Gone …
Chad and Theo had been hunting prey in Cologne since the Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus was first built. Both were merciless hunters. Theirs was an ancient and unholy curse. The time of regret had long past and they settled in and shared their damnation together. The Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) was the perfect location from …
“Shame” is a harsh and compulsive film, directed by Steve McQueen. The film tells us about the life of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a life that is almost perfect: he has a stable work, a nice apartment, good friends and women who adore him. However, something prevents Brandon from having a relationship that lasts more than …
#5 Jeremy Irons & Juliette Binoche Having written four previous pieces on sex scenes which have toasted my loins, the time has come to vent spleen on a film where I have been left both frigid and entertained in the most unexpected way. And, it is with an amused and a slightly annoyed disposition that …
Shuggie Otis is a guitar genius whose talents were not fully recognized until decades after his seminal work was created. Freedom Flight is a gritty, visceral, and organic entity – a collaborative live-in-the-studio experience. Recorded when he was only 17 years old (!), Freedom Flight seems like the craftsmanship of a veteran because his father, …
Way back in a rather tumultuous year called 2001 there was an album with the title of Get Ready. It was released by these guys who called themselves New Order. New Order had not released an album since 1993. New Order had some seriously huge dance singles in the 1980s with “Blue Monday,” “Confusion,” “Temptation,” and “The …
It was my third day in the desert. Everything had gone terribly wrong.At the meeting point at the gates of the Sahara there had been a shootout between the ransom extortionists and government officials. The kidnappers dragged me into the jeep and drove into the desert. They cursed incessantly and decided that I was a …
And do you remember? When too much time was mine… When I was a teenager, I liked nothing better of a Friday evening than lying on my bed, listening to Bauhaus. Periodically my father would fling open the bedroom door and – his oft-professed atheism notwithstanding – forcefully instruct me to ‘turn that bloody racket …
On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys wearing trenchcoats carried a disheartening arsenal of military weapons to Columbine High School located in Littleton /Colorado, and systematically murdered thirteen students. Although this singular incident was horrible, it was just one of the eight deadly school shootings in the United States between 1997 and 1999, a number …
