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William S. Burroughs reads a Thanksgiving Prayer
William S. Burroughs, author of Junky, Naked Lunch, the Revised Boy-Scout Manual, the writer who terrorised Soho , is seen in this 1990s video by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) reading his poe...
Spider-Man: No Way Home Unmasks its Green Goblin
Sony has released its new poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home which focuses on Tom Holland as Spider-Man, but also, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stranger and Zendaya as MJ. The poster comes afte...
Covid-19: Robert Peston’s Double Fist
ITV’s Robert Peston tweeted that despite being twice jabbed he’d still caught Covid-19. He investigated why? And having concluded his study, tweeted his findings: > According to new dat...
The Kilroy supercut is must-see TV
In 1986, Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk; 19 May 1942) left the House of Commons, where he’d served as a Labou a MP, to present a new daytime talk show, Kilroy, which ran u...
Jean Paul Belmondo – ‘Everyone wants to say he’s flattened Belmondo.’
À bout de souffle, or Breathless in the English speaking world, shot Jean Paul Belmondo to international stardom along with the whole genre of the French New Wave movies. When Belmondo accepted ...
Ode to a Highflying Bird – Charlie Watts’ Jazz Book
Charlie Watts left behind not just a catalogue of great music and performances but a book. The trained graphic designer and musician best known as the drummer with The Rolling Stones loved jazz...
When and why Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger, by Keith Richards
Charlie Watts has died. The coolest and best looking Rolling Stone by far. In Keith’s autobiography, we get a bit of Charlie we can admire: Spotter: Andrew Beasley
Raymond Chandler’s dictionary of police and prison slang
Writer keep notebooks because ideas arrive unexpectedly. Raymond Chandler kept two sorts of notebook – one to jot down daily events and work in progress; the other a lexicon of titles, words, p...
Kate takes aim at that sucker Prince Harry
The Metro has produced an amusing font page showing Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, firing a sucker-tipped arrow. To her side is Prince Harry and the news that he is taking aim at the Royals. He’d ...
Meme: Leonardo DiCaprio unrecognizable in first photos of new Scorsese film
York Post says: ‘Leonardo DiCaprio unrecognizable in first photos of new Scorsese film.” > Leonardo DiCaprio unrecognizable in first photos of new Scorsese > film https://t.co/IZ...
Seth Rogen remembers his time on the Nineties Bar Mitzvah circuit
In the New Yorker an excerpt from Seth Rogen’s new memoir, Yearbook . > At that age, the only way I knew to get a girlfriend was through > dancing. Not just any dancing...
‘I Love You Earth’ – Yoko Ono is here to rescue us one slogan at a time
“I Love You Earth,” states the legend on billboards in London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. Some advertising hoardings bearing those words are illuminated, so you’d suppose the intent...
Dread Beat and Blood: Lynton Kwesi Johnson, the Brixton Riots and The Spectator’s ‘Immigrant Swamp’
People had been getting angry. Forty years ago they’d had enough of heavy-handed police tactics and unchecked racism. On April 11, 1981, 13 young black people were killed in a fire at a house p...
Rocky Horror Picture Show plays to empty house for 54 weeks
You can watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday night at Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon. But for the past 54 weeks, the cinema’s Covid-enforced closure has meant no-one b...
Musical Knives from the Renaissance
If you didn’t know the tune at a Renaissance dinner party sing-along, you could read the lyrics and music score etched on your fish knife. Maya Corry, of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge , ...
Portable Radio – ‘Portable Radio’ (Crimson Crow Records, 2011)
Portable Radio have been chugging along nicely with a handful of releases, kicking off with the baroque pop double-header ‘Seven Hills’/’Parades’ and a pair of releases in the form of a s...
Jimmy Savile all over an underage Coleen Nolan in 1979
Former Nolan Sister singer Coleen Nolan says paedophile BBC DJ and TV ‘personality’ Jimmy Savile invited her to his hotel when she was 14. The Nolans had been on BBC TV’s Top of The Pops in...
Aphex Twin sells Virtual art for virtual fortune
> I’m on @withFND > 🌐 > > 0x2B867e8B4EfDB9a792a5A9C5524B7f61CF143b4Ahttps://t.co/m8iEeChAzw > — Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) March 14, 2021 > Electronic musician Aphex Twin, ...
Musician identifies the classical music played in famous cartoons
Vincent Alexander (@NonsenseIsland on Twitter) writes that many of us were introduced to classical music from watching old cartoons. “I’m going to identify the pieces that frequently popped u...
Meghan and Harry want a messy divorce
By now you’ll be wondering what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been getting up to since leaving the UK. Well, after the separation, they’ve being going gung-ho to secure the rights to th...
Guide to the Cults – 1979
Youth tribes featured in the Daily Mirror’s ‘Guide to Cults’ in 1979. There were Skinheads, who loved reggae and “enjoy fighting”. One of those parts is correct. Skinheads embraced Cari...
The Radiohead Public Library is open and free to use
Radiohead are giving away free music. They stole the hackers’ thunder when demos for the band’s 1997’s smash hit album OK Computer were stolen by releasing 18 hours of the material free to...
Covid-19: The NHS is scared of Gwyneth Paltrow
Reading of a senior NHS leader’s response to Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow’s Covid-19 routine minded me of a joke told by the abrasive Glaswegian comic Jerry Sadowitz. “Prince Diane put he...
‘Julia Roberts finds her holes get better with age’ – newspaper regrets the typo
Hollywood mega-star Julia Roberts ‘finds that her holes get better with age’. The Post-Journal regrets the error. As do these throbbing organs: > I still giggle at this one pic.twi...
How to make a great movie poster
James Verdeso designed the poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. In this video he shares a few tips on what goes into making a captivating movie poster. BUY PRINTS OF MOVIE POSTERS H...