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Dead 7
This was meant to be an analytical take on the joy and success of the Syfy channel’s deliberately bad movies. But there’s something about the past that kept this in the personal realm. Was it the strong link to the younger me in a year where the more grownup aspects of adult life have made themselves abundantly clear? Was it because an element of ( Read more... ) -
The decline of musical film
As much as I love the movie I can’t help but wonder if Moulin Rouge is partially to blame for failure of the modern film musical to be, honestly, all that good. So hyped up on its own stylistics, so inventive in the way it dealt with the traditional beats of the musical, it spawned a generation of films that feel like they’re deliberately trying ( Read more... ) -
Music as Memory
There are a few things in life that can induce memories as more than just a thought. They are the things that can, for a few moments at least, make you feel as you did at a certain period in your life ( Read more... ) -
To start writing again or not?
It's been so long since I updated this blog. Life got busy, work got busy, and this sort of fell by the wayside but now I can't help but think.......maybe it would be good to start again. A review here and there, a little over analysis for desert.........it's a possibility.... -
Live band's over the past year
So I have now been at my job for just over a year and I thought I'd work out which band's I've seen play live in the past year. This list consists of bands that I have seen both in concert and at festivals. There were 2 bands I saw supporting an act in Brighton who's names I can't remember, they were local and they were not great, there is also the ( Read more... ) -
Idol's back in play
Considering writing about American Idol again due to the brilliance of Casey Abrams, the beauty and softness of Paul McDonald's voice, the insanity of Jacob Lusk, and the need to tell Brett Lowernstern that he's too young and sweet to sing 'Light My fire'. But mainly because of Casey Abrams and the joy of hearing Screaming Jay Hawkins (or Nina ( Read more... ) -
Well it's my quad monthly post......umm......right......damn you real life!
A post which is about posts that were meant to be, have yet to be, and more than likely will never be. But hey, at least it’s a post!
( It has been months since I last wrote but the thought of what I should write, what I would like to write, has been running through my head a lot recently. ) -
Don't stop believing hold on to that feeling. Its sentimentality should come as a surprise to no one
For no matter how sentimental Glee gets, and good god does it pile on the sentimentality often threatening to fall into a chasm of saccharin platitudes, it normally manages to pull it back by its sheer joy at the vileness and cruelty of the characters at Lima High School. First and foremost, Sue. We are quickly introduced to some of the other less ( Read more... ) -
Damn it all if I haven't missed posting here
So saying I’ve been a little lax in the posting department these past few months doesn’t really seem to really do justice to how rubbish I’ve been. I started several articles on Glee but they all spiralled out of control. My thoughts and reactions to Glee are more complicated than I would like to admit; after all, it is a show I openly love pretty ( Read more... ) -
A post dump for partially started written on a plane Idol posts.
I recently had the longest, most frustrating journey to America I have ever taken and during the 12 ½ hrs we spent on the plane I thought I would make the most of my time and actually write something. However what actually happened is I would start writing something and then get stuck with where I was going to take it. And while I am going to write ( Read more... )