Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Eh I don’t care, I got home in the end and the exercise will havedone me good. And it is wonderful to be living here! Anyway, without further ado, here’s the song (and by the way, big respect for the dude who got L M H R [...]
Would you like the best years of your life with that?
From The Economist (via BoingBoing), a chart showing “how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities.”
Not only truth, but supreme beauty
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to apologize for the prosecution of Alan Turing that led to his untimely death. Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think. [...]
More Book Reviews: The Devil and the Taliban
It hasn’t been the greatest of weeks, spent mostly discovering the true meaning of the phrase “writer’s block” with only the cat and an unwritten essay for company. But, as befits such a week, I’ve got a fair amount of reading done, getting through both The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss and A Thousand [...]
Like Spinning Plates
They’ve also just brought out a new song dedicated tothe memory Harry Patch, the man who never wanted to go to war – and who now finds warmongering generals trying to hide behind his memory. But when I listened to Like Spinning Plates just now I was more reminded of Ed Miliband, whose inane adventures you can [...]
The Fountain at the Centre of the World
Insomnia again. Boo. It’s not like I don’t have stuff I need to have slept well for. Anyway. When I started this blog, I told myself I’d regularly review all the books and films that crossed my path. That ship has long sailed right out of view, but there’s no reason I can’t do it [...]
Green Shoots
“We do not know whether the green shoots of recovery some observers claim to have seen in the late spring will wither in the summer heat. But they are unlikely to blossom this year or, for that matter, next.” The intervening time is more than enough for the invisible hand – and the iron fist that [...]
Fight For the Right (Not) to Work
Packed my job in on Friday night. One last shift, one last staff discount – which I made the most of with a MASSIVE final supper, sticky toffee pudding and all – and then, by 2am, freedom. I mention this in the context of a fight for the right to work which, from Visteon to Vestas and [...]
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Volver, an’ that
With canny timing, just before the release of his new film Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar’s Volver was on FilmFour t’other night. It tells the story of a crisis in the main character Raimunda’s life which disturbs the memory of traumas she thought she’d buried long ago – memories which become physically embodied in the form [...]
August 29, 2009
Categories: comment, film, history, review, theory . Tags: commodity fetish, fascism, film, history, ideology, memory, pedro almodovar, spain, theory . Author: D . Comments: 2 Comments