Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a medical disorder. Hysteria was widely discussed in the medical literature of the 19th century. Women considered to be suffering from it exhibited a wide array of symptoms including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness […]
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Glaxo Babies – Nine months to the Disco
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I’ve gone a little mainstream in my listening pleasures in the last couple of nights. Its been an intense listening period as I’ve prepared some reviews and I do like to unwind with some old favourites, my disdain for sound colonization not withstanding. Glazxo Babies have been high on the rotation with a little Nick […]
Bande à part – Godard celebrates the outsider.
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The importance and influence of Bande à part on cinema today simply can ‘t be overestimated. That is if you think names like Quentin Tarentino and Jean Pierre Junet have much of a say in the direction cinema has taken in the last few decades. Without this film the concept of gangsters ‘hanging out’ and chatting about […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 91 – 95
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If this group of five albums had to be given a theme I guess it would have to be dance and / or electronic, the unheard Jean C. Roche not withstanding. I have waxed lyrical at many intervals on this blog about my appreciation for electronic music and the artists below give an excellent argument […]
Stack – My book of short stories now available.
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I am very pleased and proud to announce the release of my book of short stories, Stack through Les Éditions du Zaporogue. It’s cheap as chips and available here. This is a modest collection of ten short stories that clocks in at 113 pages I’ve written over the last couple of years. Some have been published […]
The Rules of the Game – Greatest film ever made.
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What a week – month – year – of viewing I have had! Cinema buffs may lament the day and age we live in, that film makers like Michael Bay can get funded, let alone watched, but what we do have over every generation before us is access, like there has never been before, to […]
Twig Harper – Twig Harper Hanson Records
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Twig Harper is one of the solid suns around which the various planets rotate that make up the noise band Nautical Almanac along with Carly Ptak. They’re from Baltimore Maryland and stay true to a strong passion for electronic experimentation and the harsher end of the sound spectrum. With a truly bizarre history (check a condensed version out […]
Rashomon – Stories, lies, perspectives and human weakness.
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“Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves. Even the character who dies cannot give up his lies. Egotism is a sin [and] the human heart itself is impossible to understand.” Akira Kurosawa speaking about Rashomon. Impossible to belive I know, but I just saw Rashomon for the first time last week. It’s been […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 86 – 90
posted by lisathatcher
Impossible not to get excited about this portion from Wire’s list. We’re well into the 1990’s now, and yet as with so many albums on this list, no respect is paid by these great artists to context. Here is music that picks and pulls from many different traditions and ages, leaving us with a taste […]
Piet Mondrian – Line over Form
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Please note: this post is not written by me. I have taken the Wikepedia article, on Piet Mondrian and added in images to enhance appreciation of what he was doing. I don’t own the images nor do own the words. If anyone sees anything here that they feel they need acknowledgement for, please contact me […]
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