Logistics.

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Art At some point I know I will have to complete my North West art collection visits and to that end I've spent much of the afternoon...

Africa Oye from above.

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Music Here is the Africa Oye Festival in Sefton Park over the past few years. Not sure why I missed 2010. They missed 2012. 2014 ...

The Films I've Watched This Year #22

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Film  After spending the last hermitage week reading books, this week I surrendered myself to new media and spent most of it in front of ...

The Feeling Listless Soundtrack 1.0:
Under The Bridge.

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Written by Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis & Chad Smith [from: 'Under The Bridge', 2001] Music  I’ve a feeling The R...

Marina Abramović's Video Diary.

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Art Marina Abramović's latest show is a 512 hour long performance piece at the Serpentine Galleries in London , where across the openi...

Newman.

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Film Arthur Newman , the "lost" Emily Blunt film (lost as in not released in the UK) finally has a release date over here but ...

NT 50th app. Thingy.

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Elsewhere I've reviewed the National Theatre's 50th Anniversary app thingy for the iPad on The Hamlet Weblog .

National Theatre 50th Anniversary Timeline App.

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Having recently availed myself of an ipad I've had a chance to experience the National Theatre's new archive app highlighting fifty...

"For this, you see, is Panini HQ."

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Football The Guardian's received a disappointing, if unsurprising given that men tend to be envy factories, criticism for sending Hadl...

Richard Eyre on directing Daniel Day-Lewis at the National.

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The Films I've Watched This Year #21

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Film   Here's the usual mitigating circumstances as to why this seems like and in fact is a very short list.  On Sunday night I watche...

Yan Preston's Mother River at the Open Eye Gallery.

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Photography While the eyes of the world are on Brazil, as the few of you who bothered to read my weekly film review posts will know my i...

Portrait Mode.

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The Feeling Listless Soundtrack 1.0:
Please Can I Go Now?

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Written by Guy Sigsworth [from: 'GMT: Music from the film', Island, 1999] Music I never say goodbye to people. Even when they’...

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

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TV The BBC's website is full of clips of old shows. Most of them are only a couple of minutes. But sometimes they're many hours ...

Joss Whedon on Speed.

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Film Joss hasn't talked about Speed much across the years . Here's probably about as definitive an interview as we'll get in ...

The leftovers of Doctor Who.

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Television It's the new Flash Forward everyone. But it's on HBO so it might be good. On the downside, it's from one of the...

"HBO and Showtime don’t care how many people are watching any given show"

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TV Indiewire has a brief but excellent analysis of the US television networks and how the construction of their shows do differ markedly ...

No More Weeping.

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Theatre Watching the twitterbituaries for Rik in which everyone seemed to have met him at some stage, I flippantly tweeted that I hadn...

That Time Again.

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Sport Grant and Hurley reunited, sort of, in the name of football : "Celebrities and football fans have taken part in the BBC World...