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Cancers may be cured – but we will still die
Read more: Cancers may be cured – but we will still dieArthur C Clarke died this week. I remember going to the Edinburgh Festival to see 2001 in the sixties. It was a premier, but whether it world or British, I can’t remember. It was too earnest a gathering to have druggies sitting in the front row, being blasted into a semi-religious trance by the kaleidoscopic… Know More
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Juno what I think?
Read more: Juno what I think?Juno, the film, is about teenage pregnancy. It divides critics. There are those who find it awkward and clunky and others like myself who had a real laugh and thought it very wittily written. Talking to people who hated it and restraining myself from adversarial passion (something I have to guard against) I tried to… Know More
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Premature Burial: how does it feel?
Read more: Premature Burial: how does it feel?There are some films that you know are probably very good but you are prevented from going to them by a deep inertia caused by fear. You are unwilling to expose yourself to a meditation on a possible state of being which is so appalling that you go rigid at the very thought. And this… Know More
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There will be blood then? Not really.
Read more: There will be blood then? Not really.Well I saw Daniel Day Lewis et al in the Rive Gauche arts cinema in Perpignan this afternoon knowing all the hype, the Oscar, an interview with the King of Guignol, himself, on television but with the sinking heart of one who fears the worst. I wasn’t far wrong. Those who have compared There Will… Know More
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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
Read more: Out of the mouths of babes and sucklingsAnyone who was anyone reading about anyone in the early seventies will have come across Janov and primal scream therapy. Apart from giving a name to a good rock band, primal scream experience involves getting to the emotional core of your being by having a good yell or two. Well, probably a lot more than… Know More
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Shorn (of respect) Connery
Read more: Shorn (of respect) ConneryCurrently, one of the television channels in the UK is running a top one hundred of the most embarrassing/obnoxious/gets-on-your-tits individuals of this past year. I have no idea if SIR Sean Connery is one of these but he should be. This tartan Bahamian (The King of Scotland should have been about him not Idi Amin)… Know More
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Is there anyone out there?
Read more: Is there anyone out there?I’ve written a few essayists on the question of reality and identity posed by the artificial worlds developed by arcade and internet programmers. If we enter these worlds in avatar form (constructed selves built to our individual specifications of desire and need) are we experiencing and learning (or not) in the same way that would… Know More
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Facebook: Now you see us now you don’t
Read more: Facebook: Now you see us now you don’tWe are apparently nearer to a CCTV camera than we are to a rat in the sense that CCTV watches us more of the time than rats do – and make no mistake, those rodent eyes bore into you wherever you go. And as if this surveillance was not enough, some huge proportion of us… Know More
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Sharia, no fear, not here – or anywhere
Read more: Sharia, no fear, not here – or anywhereAs I wrote, probably longwindedly, in an earlier blog, there should be no blurring of state affairs and religious dogma. It doesn’t matter whether it is American fundamentalist Christians or Mormons, Islamists from wherever, the Vatican’s long nose in South America, Zionism or any as yet unknown future attempt to pervert the course of justice… Know More