non-crap music, world politics, food, new media stuff (but not La Fonda), comedy, environmental stuff, football (Wigan Ath & Liverpool), films of the ICA Curzon type, cultural studies and the like.
Music
Playlist right now:
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Movies
Directors: Hitchcock, Pedro Almoldavar, Coens,David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Linklater, Spike Jonze, Joachim Kunnert, Lars von Trier, Robert Altman
Television
Chris Morris, Boosh, Peep Show, Sealab 2021, Trailer Park Boys, Charlie Broker's Screen Wipe, Wondershowzen, garth Merengi, Heimat, thick of it
Books
Authors: Paul Auster, David Mitchell, Julian Barnes, Rohinton Mistry, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, Laurence Stern, Rick Moody, Ted Hughes, Dani Rodrik, Robert Wade, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, John Steinbeck
About me: Did you know you can get the gorilla at London Zoo to run at you if you pretend to do your shoe lace up. Tried it, we both got a lot out of it.
Who I'd like to meet: Someone who shares all my opinions but is slightly less popular and clever than me. If that's not an invitation I don't know what is.
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Will we be seeing ya at this month's Red Eyed & Blue on Tuesday March 11th? We sure hope so! It's taking place at the Hawley Arms' brand spanking new music venue The Wilmington. We've got a crackin' lineup with Adrian Crowley, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou, The Snakes and DJ sets from the Truckin' Lauras and DJ James Steel.
I sent a bulletin about a friend of mine whose orgainising a night next Tuesday but thought I would remind people of it as it get nearer.
"WEST PIER
We bring you romance, nostalgia, glamour and damn right tom foolery….
Let us woo you with a shared love of that decaying Brighton
glitz…..sleezy music halls….bright neon lights….sticky rock....all
night diner burgers….damp sea air…and those damned seagulls….
Not to mention live bands and dj's spinning tunes you can rock to,
lock to, swing to, fling to, break, pop, lindy hop and be bop, a lula
to….basically anything goes…..
Please come and support the cause. West Pier has been two years in the
making and with your support we hope the film will hit the Film
Festival circuit in 2007-2008.
Acts include Hip Hop wonder kid Harry Love who'll be suprising us with
some 80's and early 90's rare groves and Infinite Potential who'll be
giving us their crate digging magic with Kojak and Soulful
Spider…..and much much more………..
TUESDAY 30TH JAN 2007
£5
FROM 6:30 TILL LATE
http://www.nottinghillartsclub.com/
West Pier
Although closed since 1975 and ravaged by the elements, it has
survived as a magical and enduring part of seaside England and an
essential feature of the Brighton seafront.
West Pier: The Plot
Dorian (Jolyon Rubinstein), a young man whose life has recently fallen
apart, wakes up on the pebbles of Brighton beach next to Albert (Allan
Corduner), a cynical tramp, whose life fell apart many years ago.
Forced into companionship they argue their way through the rest of the
day and drink their way through the following night, in a film that
takes a black comic look at themes of friendship, love and hope, the
Holocaust and homelessness, mobile phones, answer machines and the
things we are unable to say to each other, however loud we scream."
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