Oct
21
IL TRUCE
Novecento v Salò
The stakes surrounding the football match between Bernardo Bertolucci’s cast and crew and Pasolini’s weren’
4 min read
Digital Renegade
Oct
19
PARADISE LOST
Attending authors Geoff Dyer and Chiara Barzini’s event “California Dreaming,” expertly hosted by Gareth Evans as part of the
3 min read
Oct
16
WE'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU
"I know. We've been watching you." - Johnny Hamcheck
An occasional idle pleasure of mine over
2 min read
Oct
16
CAL-NEVA - PART 2
1959
A plastic pinwheel spun round and round like a lucky wheel of fortune, positioned in front of a perfectly
11 min read
Oct
15
LIKE EARS IN RAIN
Listening for the first time to The New American Orchestra’s 1982 version of the original Vangelis score for Blade
2 min read
Oct
13
THE OASIS
Sometimes, when I contemplate the bardo transition from this life to the next, I find myself, for some random reason,
6 min read
Oct
12
TERRY AND NIC
If I could just borrow the DeLorean DMC-12 from the 1985 movie Back to the Future and go back in
1 min read
Oct
12
DIANE
This blog seems increasingly to have turned into an obituary page lately. 2025 has been quite a year for seismic
2 min read
Oct
11
A NORTHERN NIGHT
The neighbours and I had agreed to have a Northern Exposure-themed night at the house, with recipes chosen from The
3 min read
Oct
09
SOUNDTRACKS FOR LIFE
Having attended the film composer Zbigniew Preisner's 70th birthday concert at the Barbican in London a few weeks
3 min read