My Fantasy Casting – Dune post has done really well since I wrote it at the end of last year and I’ve been watching updates about the project from Brian Herbert on Facebook. Earlier in the week, the first big casting announcement (not confirmed yet) emerged in various sources and I wanted to share my initial […]
Read more "Casting Dune – Timothee Chalamet initial reactions"This week I’m going with my all-time favourite piece of music: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. It’s occupied that place since my early twenties when my Dad had a copy of it that he played for me. The violinist was one Maxim Vengerov. I’ve listened to this countless times since and it holds such rich associations for […]
Read more "Monday Music 17 – 2018"Haven’t posted anything for an absolute age because of work but I thought I could get an easy win today by doing a quick Monday Music post. No, no it’s not Skinner and Baddiel, that would be too obvious. Having said that, I did get that off iTunes yesterday. No, today is about Annie Lennox. I […]
Read more "Monday Music 16 – 2018"With the beginning of the World Cup today, I thought it would be worthwhile going on a little jaunt down memory lane and remembering where I was during the tournaments that I can remember. I’ll say a little bit about my life at the time, my memories of the tournament and anything else that springs […]
Read more "My World Cup Memories"Adventures on Voeld Eventually, I had to leave the safety of my patio heater and venture out into the frigid, barren wilderness of Voeld. I love the way the way the planet has been drawn. It’s lovely to look at and frequently I would stop the Nomad and just admire the view. The one downside […]
Read more "The Andromeda Experience – 7"This week’s Monday Music comes from Spike Lee’s 2006 film, Inside Man, which starred Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen. I remember going to see this in the cinema with my brother. It has the most wonderful opening sequence, showing different parts of New York city as the robbers drive into Manhattan. […]
Read more "Monday Music 15 – 2018"Hi everyone, I’ve had another article published, not on Taste of Cinema this time but on the 25YL TV and Film website. Surprise, surprise, its Twin Peaks related. I’ve written about the European pilot episode of the series and how I view the extra scenes at the end, especially in light of Season 3. Hope […]
Read more "The Forgotten Pieces"Anyone who watches What the Haiku! will know that I can’t go more than a month without coming back to one of my favourite characters: Dick Tremayne. In his honour then, I have composed some limericks – my first attempts at this form of poetry. Limericks have a fairly strict structure in terms of rhyme […]
Read more "Are you still seeing this…? Some limericks"I’ve had this stuck in my head since Saturday night so it had to this week’s Monday Music. I had my first cinema experience of 2018 on Saturday night when I finally went to see Marvel’s Avengers – Infinity War Part 1. What a film! I was blown away by the way they brought everyone […]
Read more "Monday Music 14 – 2018"I owe this week’s Monday Music to my Dad. Growing up, I used to hear all sorts of things from the big tower system that we had at home. I used to wonder what all the buttons were for on it and I still don’t know. This is just one of those things we used […]
Read more "Monday Music 13 – 2018"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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