Author: KB
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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Very interesting article by Nicholas Guyett, around Chris Hedges’ book in the current issue of the London Review of Books. Hedges was a theology student, and is also a very experienced war reporter. Well worth a read, or buy the book here. “According to Hedges, we may be only one cataclysmic event away from a…
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Storyquest | Lara Croft is no Wise Guide | Antisocial Behaviour
Storyquest is the national festival of story-telling and the spoken word, and runs for the whole of November. Alongside many keynote events, the organizers – the Prince of Wales’ Foundation for Children & the Arts – are simply encouraging families to ‘fill their homes with stories, capturing the moment when a story gets inside you…
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Proximity | Escatology | SpaceTime Collapse
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Last night I went to see Iron and Wine at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, where we were up in the gods rather; the night before I’d been looking for some theatre tickets for a Christmas show, and was shocked at how much it was going to cost to be anywhere near where we might see.…
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Live
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I love the look of fierce concentration on the faces of musicians, playing live, struggling to hear the foldback, straining to keep within the bounds of the beat… The rush of performance and I think of my own struggles to live life, playing live, no click track. This is not a recording. The energy and…
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Once…
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is a wonderful film which I can’t recommend highly enough. Dublin. A busker. A Czech pianist, selling roses on the street to scrape a living. Not a great deal else. Subtle, simple film-making hung around wonderful music. Go see now. Technorati: Once | Dublin