This film was made by the Eameses thirty-one years ago. I thought they made chairs… Fascinating, and remarkable to think that it’s three decades since it was made. Not sure about the cheesy organ though, even if it is by Elmer Bernstein.
I suppose the way I encountered Charles Lambert’s excellent debut novel Little Monsters is emblematic of how the interweb works these days. I hadn’t read a review, despite my voracious appetite for the book pages of the proper papers, but came across Charles’s engaging blog, which in turn led to some correspondence. The upshot is,… Continue reading Little Monsters
I expect that, by now, septuagenarian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen will have his feet up, having completed a remarkable series of gigs in Europe, largely, it seems, to supplement his pension after being ripped off by his accountant. It was quite a coup for the Manchester International Festival to book him for a series… Continue reading Leonard Cohen: First he took Manchester
Playing tunefully away on the right is music by Pantagruel, whose album is available from the estimable Magnatune. They are appearing on simpering Sean Rafferty’s In Tune tonight on Radio 3. I’d love to see them perform.Update: I’ve taken the link down, because I got fed up with the same tune starting up every time… Continue reading Elizium
I haven’t read Clare Wigfall’s short stories, but with a bio like this, she just had to become a writer, didn’t she?:“Wigfall was born in London, but spent the first years of her childhood under the liberal sway of late 1970s California. She returned to England for most of her schooling, but her vital early… Continue reading Wigfall windfall
Woody Guthrie was born today, and I suppose it’s kind of appropriate that he shares his birthday with Bastille day.
As a vegetarian, I can enjoy this with unalloyed pleasure. If you are a carnivore – how can you eat this?
If you go, and you should, regularly, to the Clive James website, you’ll now find, in the links on the Cultural Amnesia page, a link to my review. I’m chuffed at that, and so I bring you, by commodious vicus of recirculation back to Topsyturvydom.
To Victoria Baths, star of BBC’s Restoration programme, and also star, I now know, of Life on Mars, for which it provided some atmospheric locations. Our object was to see and hear the Clerks, best known for their performances of medieval and renaissance polyphony – so why are we at the baths? Because, dear reader,… Continue reading Singing in the Baths
Encyclopedia Britannica has made all of its content available to bloggers and other “web publishers”. Which is nice. It means I can link to their “On the Day” feature, which today is about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. There was a certain resonance in this, as nestling in my inbox today was the latest “Stop the… Continue reading On this day…