I’ve been listening to this chilling album for a few days now – I was introduced to it on Monday, downloded my free ‘mixtape’ Monday night. At that stage there were one hundred thousand or so hits on the song on You Tube and my boyfriend was saying “you’ve got to hear this! Everyone is […]
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Drive: A boys film the girls will love.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok! So I saw drive this weekend. I went with my guy, which I think makes for a better movie experience in this case because this is a celebration of some great ‘blokey’ flicks and it’s kinda nice to do the viewing with a man you have that soft spot for. After all, Nicholas Winding Refn […]
Top Ten Fictional Female Geniuses
posted by lisathatcher
This was kind of a fun excercise. I was thinking about what lists to compile and I found a few ‘genius’ lists and of course, the women were largely absent. I don’t mind doing a male list as well (lists are so much fun) but I did have to address this with a top ten […]
More than Interesting: The Tumours of Matthew Revert.
posted by lisathatcher
In the film ‘We Need to talk about Kevin’ a debate rages (following on from the book) about the nature of Kevin’s psychopathy and his relationship to his mother. Kevin is bad. His mother struggles with his ‘bad-ness’. I‘ve heard this book (and now film) described as the lamentations of the middle class housewife. […]
Top ten Films Blog-a-thon
posted by lisathatcher
So the great blog Top ten Films is having a blog-a-thon. The deal is, you have a magic ticket and you can hop into any film you want to grab a ride on. Once you have these choices available, how would you answer the following questions: 1. What character would I most like to be sat […]
Death and the Maiden: Dorfman’s guide to Hell
posted by lisathatcher
If you live in London or are going to London between now and January, then you are lucky enough to be able to grab a ticket to the performance of Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden. Teh Guardian have done a wonderful review of this amazing play. Read it here. I haven’t been lucky enough […]
Why Chomsky is right about Twitter.
posted by lisathatcher
An Article in Salon today (you can access it here) suggested Noam Chomsky is wrong about Twitter. I wasn’t au fait with Chomsky’s complaints, observations or otherwise about Twitter. Generally I am a Chomsky fan, but he can lean too much away from Continentalism for me to take him at that Guru status, which probably […]
My favorite Leonard Cohen Album: Songs of Love and Hate.
posted by lisathatcher
(I have also reviewed Leonard Cohen’s latest album.) So what’s your favourite Leonard Cohen Album? We are told that a new album is on its way, due January 2012. The Net-town is a a-buzz with chat about which album is the best, and I confess to it being a delicious way to fizzle away time. After all, […]
The deep Freeze Mice – music for the future of somewhere.
posted by lisathatcher
Just a little plug for The Deep freeze Mice ’cause I’m blissing out to My Gerainiums are Bulletproof and falling in love with this kewell Brit new wave band all over again. This is such a great album. Check out the blurb from the cover: Credits from MOLE 1 – photocopied sleeve Sherree Lawrence Alan […]
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