INDIE. For some, the word conjures the Sundance Film Festival and independent movies. Or indie music, where unsigned bands make a name by releasing songs on MySpace. Or maybe “indie” is just one more reminder of the new “Indiana Jones” movie.
If you’re like most people, you may not have even heard of independent video [...]
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Dec
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19
Dec
I arrive early for my meeting with Rhys Ifans and catch the tail end of the Observer photo shoot. He is all dressed up in a pinstriped suit, open-necked shirt and shiny white winkle-picker boots, but he pulls it off somehow. In fact, he looks a bit like a Brit-rock star from the pre-punk Seventies: [...]
19
Dec
The B-52’s The B-52’s (1979) With big hair, big tunes and big voices, the B-52’s surreal new wave offered them as a freakbeat take on Devo, with the spiralling Planet Claire (featuring Fred Schneider’s unmistakable deadpan bark), the Martian disco of Rock Lobster, and Dance this Mess Around, a girl group parody in which the [...]
19
Dec
Looking for Enid: The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton
by Duncan McLaren
319pp, Portobello, %26pound;15.99Enid Blyton is largely treated as a figure of fun. Perceived as a strange scribbling battleaxe with bad grammar, her work forever burdened with ginger beer jokes, she is all too easy to underrate. Yet Blyton, though accorded a fraction of [...]
17
Dec
At every Pearl Jam show, a crowd gathers around the merchandise stand with a collective eye on one thing: The poster. The unique, one-of-500 show poster designed by the legendary Ames Bros.
At some point, the harried clerk turns and takes the display poster down. That means that’s it. No more.
And every time, a groan passes [...]
17
Dec
INDIE. For some, the word conjures the Sundance Film Festival and independent movies. Or indie music, where unsigned bands make a name by releasing songs on MySpace. Or maybe “indie” is just one more reminder of the new “Indiana Jones” movie.
If you’re like most people, you may not have even heard of independent video [...]
17
Dec
New Nobel laureate Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech
to rail against the internet, saying it has “seduced a whole
generation into its inanities” and created a world where people
know nothing.
Lessing, 88, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature,
lamented the apparent discrepancy in the hunger for books between
developing countries like Zimbabwe and the rest of [...]
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