SATURDAY MATINEE 1 – FISH IS OFF THE MENU

I think I am going to start a little series of Saturday afternoon matinees. For the first one I have searched in vain to find a version of this documentary that I could embed in the site but completely without luck. As I seem to be completely inept at getting vodpod to work you will [...]

FRIENDS OR FOES

“I’ve often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by a greater power from outer space from another planet — wouldn’t we all of a sudden find that we didn’t have any differences between us at all?” Ronald Reagan I was flicking through a quotes site looking under [...]

HOWARD ZINN – 1922 to 2010

“When I was studying in college I found I was being taught basically the same world view [and] the same version of history as I had been taught in school…only with footnotes”. Because I travel around a bit it is difficult sometimes to get books (or get decent ones) in English. Therefore I am in [...]

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ROBBIE WILLIAMS

I am a music snob, always have been. It is a common enough affliction (or blessing) in Glasgow which is a fantastically musical city. I don’t watch TV (although I do watch certain programmes). In fact, I do not have a television in my house. I have my 17,000 tunes on my itunes of which [...]

BRECHT FILM

Little help anyone? A few years ago I watched a film about the last few years of Bertolt Brecht’s life. It was a German film and I can’t remember the name. I would like to see it again but I have been singularly unable to find it. I have even emailed 2 professors of German [...]

WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER THEY SPEND IT ON?

Normally I tweet in relation to blog posts. This is my first blog post in relation to a tweet. I put a tweet up earlier about which of these 3 proposals for the next big European space mission you would like to see followed through. I  know that what with everything happening in Haiti it [...]

THEY LIVE

A nice piece of culture jamming on the theme of John Carpenter’s They Live which is an excellent film you should try to see if you can. Picture courtesy of Wooster Collective.

QUOTE OF THE DECADE

There has been a lot of “of the decade” stuff  recently. I normally vomit in a corner of the room if these things are not turned off quickly enough. However, here I would like to use the technique that these things employ here which is simply to use the changing of a few numbers on [...]

A CORPORATE MONDAY

Just a couple of things this morning. Firstly, there is a great article by Chris Hedges over a truthdig called “Wall Street will be back for more”. A lot of what he talks about in the article is explained wonderfully in a film from a couple of years ago called The Corporation which you can [...]

WHAT YEAR IS IT?

This is not of the utmost importance but I had a couple of discussions last year about whether people would say “two thousand and ten” or “twenty ten”. My money was on “twenty ten” purely for the reason that it is quicker to say but it might not have been that because in the last [...]