New Covers & New Dylan

Added on 13 March 2009

Here's a link to Mojo's description of the new Dylan album. Sounds great... if you can believe it, and if you like Dylan, because obviously if you don't, it sounds much like everything else. And in even more exciting news, here are some more cover ideas for the proposed re-release of the Barney Thom...

You Can't Step Twice In The Same Custard

Added on 11 March 2009

Currently reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim. The reviewer from Newsweek stated that Kundera has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity. The clue to The Unbearable Lightness of Being is in that ...

How News Works No.3156

Added on 10 March 2009

New Dylan album out at the end of April. I Feel A Change Coming On, it appears to be called. An album of new songs, not yet another rehash of Blowing' In The Wind and Forever Young. Some people might think this is exciting news and some people might not care. We're split 1-3 in our house. Yesterday ...

The Eager Nature Fit For A Great Crisis

Added on 09 March 2009

Douglas Lindsay is attempting to finish re-writing The Barber-Surgeon's Hairshirt. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 28th May 2004... In 1989 there was a summit of non-aligned nations in Belgrade involving the usual suspects, including Iran, Libya, North Korea etc. (Scotlan...

The Great Debate... One Of Them Anyway

Added on 05 March 2009

We watched the Sean Penn Oscar-winning flic Milk a few weeks ago, with a fairly sizeable Polish audience in attendance. Poland not being the most permissive society on the planet, it was interesting to see that a) they were showing film in the first place and b) a lot of people were interested in se...