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Phantom Husband

A Prayer For The Condemned

The Red Pill

And All That Could Have Been

I Watched The Avengers This Week

Something Is Very Off About The Ukraine Conflict

Everything's Ruined: When Faith No More Were Untouchable

The last truly subversive band in the history of modern music. Alternative when the word still meant something. Against all possible odds...

Man Is A Port, Not An Island: A Memoir of My Visit to Porto

JK Rowling lived in Porto between 1991 and 1993 and was a frequent visitor of the Livraria Lello bookstore, a quite beautiful landmark and t

A Tribute To An Ex Girlfriend: The Importance of Understanding Goodbye

From pacing up and down the office to escaping outside by the river for lunch. The subject and tone do not change. A strange product of...

The Notion Of Toxic Relationships Is Toxic To Relationships

But in the end the overall effect of us believing that we do indeed need to be protected from one another has arguably made us as lonely as

What “I Think We Are Alone Now (2008)” Reminds Us About Stalking

The very dynamic of stalking therefore blurs the line between the desperation of romantic pursuit and the desperation of mental illness beca

When Racism Is Not Racism

The shocking attacks on Romanian immigrants in Northern Ireland this week have again raised the inexhaustibly contentious issue of...

It Is What It Is : An Addendum

Language has to be objectively meaningful if it is to perform its proper function of uniting its users

The Hitman

Diversity should mean not automatic acceptance of our views.

To Lublin or Ljubljana

Last week, whilst I approached the “home straight” in terms of writing my next play, and sought to suck some fresh air in, and brace...

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Click to Punch Elliot Borges in the face

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Let's just say, I'm a man who knows life.

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I listen to a lot of old music - Motown, Classic Rock, Blues, Jazz, but the one type of music I always come back to is extreme music. I seem to find a lot of beauty in extreme music.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/the-power-of-the-dog-thomas-savage-stoner

"Phil needn't have worried, but you do wonder sometimes if people are what you think they are, or if you only think that they are and they are what they are and not what you think."

No. Just no.

Thomas Savage's book is a solid, if somewhat plodding affair, which reveals a genuine flair for storytelling but also that he cannot really write.

Time and time again he reaches for a type of Southern dirt track poetry, but his hands clasp only around dust slipping through his fingers.

He is simply too clumsy a writer to merit the type of rave reviews the re-release of this book generated.

Thomas Savage was an interesting man.

Unfortunately the renewed enthusiasm with which his work has been greeted is no coincidence but rather part of a modern fetish for authenticity in these most inauthentic of times.

The record company must wondered whether he had finally lost the plot.

They must have shat their pants.

Side 1 was frazzled, new wave short bursts of pop music (before new wave even existed).

Side 2 sounded in 1977 like it had come from another planet.

The "Berlin Trilogy" remains one the greatest artistic achievements of the past 100 years.

The guy is a genius. And the scary thing, he probably was not even really trying.

David Bowie; 1947-2016

One of the greatest artists in any artform of all time.

When I was doing my GCSEs, one of my mates went off an a huge tongue in cheek rant in English Literature about how we were all going to grow up to be Prime Ministers, Philosophers and Multimillionaires and how we were the best/most talented boys in the country, etc, etc.

I said "Listen, I guarantee if you put all of our talent together, all 20 of us, in total it will not even get to half of the talent David Bowie has."

My English teacher, a triple 1st from Cambridge and himself a huge Bowie fan told me, "That's the only thing that you have ever said which I completely agree with"