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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

27/03/2013

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

Gangsters and Gunslingers : The American Museum in Britain

23/03/2013

Los Angeles was the last Western boom town – a place where elderly cowboys mingled with celluloid stars on Hollywood backlots. Wyatt Earp ended his days there. Gangsters and Gunslingers, at the...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 2]

21/03/2013

The great composers like Jarre responded heroically to the high expectations of both director and studio....

Satirical doublespeak? Is Orwell Outdated?

18/03/2013

Satirical doublespeak? New York Times Book Review calls Nineteen Eighty-four “outdated”...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

14/03/2013

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

Notes from the Noosphere

13/03/2013

The interconnectedness of all things internet has less in common with the neural network as with a fungal mycelium. So writes Andy Letcher...

Rigorous Imagination and the Polis of the Psyche

09/03/2013

Circumstances do not change unless perceptions change. ...

Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

05/03/2013

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

02/03/2013

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Freedom Toast : Southern Style

27/02/2013

I know you ladies like it thick ...

Democracy and Dubai Shopping Trips ; An Academic in Africa

26/02/2013

I would suggest that the fear of violent reprisal, or the knowledge that casting your vote made no difference because the seat had already been bought would lead some to conclude that they were not...

Fire in the Blood [Film]

20/02/2013

A healthcare industry that is allowed to continue monopolising the world will see many more needless deaths, all in the name of indifference and bottom dollar...

The Great Dismal

16/02/2013

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

15/02/2013

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

The Best Form of Defence : Most Offensive Songs

14/02/2013

In a twisted celebration of the offensively smug Valentine's Day message, Trebuchet rounded up some contributors for an overview of musical offensiveness....

Brythonic Gyrations

13/02/2013

I see Breton dances as a kind of bhajan. They are about losing yourself to something greater. We forget the Dionysian at our peril....

The Sensual Economist

11/02/2013

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

Anger, Passion, and Destiny in the USA

09/02/2013

There has been a deadly legacy wrought by social structures that inflict shame and thus sow seeds of inarticulate rage. ...

Gael Garcia Bernal in No [Film]

08/02/2013

No is a deeply involving experience, and in no small part due to Bernal's performance....

We Are All Dead Now [Stephen Jones]

04/02/2013

Zombie Apocalypse threatens imminently. SWP composes the soundtrack....

I have not gone out of my way to mythologise myself, but… Michael Finnissy

03/02/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”S/dropcapince the late 60’s Michael Finnissy has been composing classical work that challenges, shakes and agitates the listener from...

Janet LaBelle : New Jersey, Pizza and Punk Pop

03/02/2013

'it could take years…or even a lifetime to write anything you think is ever any good'...

Rebekka Karijord : Interview

02/02/2013

I do feel like I want to be political but I’m not a super rhetorical political person but I do believe that music can be political, not in the sense that I want to sit down and write a song about a...

Col’ Jon’s Home Style Breakfast [Recipe]

29/01/2013

'momma used to prepare us Brains n’ Eggs for breakfast. Pappy used to make stupid Zombie jokes about it when he wasn’t telling us about Iwo Jima'...

Holy Motors [Film]

27/01/2013

The truth, and the beauty of the film is that it is wide open to interpretation. ...

Cis or gender. What’s Your Privilege?

26/01/2013

Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of...

Matthew Houlding: Ceri Hand Gallery

22/01/2013

Leaving the cold of snow-strewn January for one evening, to view far flung landscapes imbued with warm yellows, enhanced with rich sea blues and framed with complex shapes was a nice diversion....

Rapper Zay-Gee to Invade Lithuania

21/01/2013

He quipped that if the Lithuanians didn’t give up without a shot being fired then he just might send the girls over to ‘work some shock and awe’....

Joe Rogan ‘s Kale Shake Recipe

20/01/2013

How to make Joe Rogan's Kale Shake, which blender is the best to use if you can't afford a BlendTec blender and you're in the UK and you're a beginner. ...

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