Jun
01
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
We all know you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but can one still be honest if unwilling
2 min read
Latest
May
29
BELONGING
Given that the great Keith Jarrett has just turned 80, I can think of no more touching birthday tribute than
1 min read
May
25
STEVE PLAYS STEVIE
The musical legacy of my Uncle Steve (technically my second cousin) is fairly well preserved on YouTube. This Captain Caveman-looking
1 min read
May
24
LIVE AND LET DIE
When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live
(You
3 min read
May
22
BACK TO NATURE
It seemed that the 1960s and 1970s marked the beginning of a re-evaluation of traditional British values and the colonial
4 min read
May
19
NACHO MAN
I like to think (perhaps mistakenly) that I have a good understanding of human psychology, but just yesterday, watching a
4 min read
May
15
RING OF FIRE
What I particularly love about director Barrie Kosky's Ring Cycle so far at the Royal Opera House is
3 min read
May
14
DOUBLE FEATURES
Having recently watched two seasons of Apple TV's Severance and finding myself dissatisfied with the endless rabbit holes
2 min read
May
13
THE KEYS
There’s a famous double episode of Seinfeld which revolves around keys, and on Saturday I felt as if I
5 min read
May
12
MIMETIC
I haven’t revisited Edward Yang’s Taiwanese masterpiece Yi Yi (2000) in a few years, though it remains a
3 min read