Stewart Home's Blog, page 18
October 14, 2009
The Attic Archive at the Cupar Arts Festival
The Cupar Arts Festival went head to head with The Frieze Art Fair once again this year, and for me there was no contest in terms of prioritising one over the other. I headed out of London and away from Frieze to Cupar in Fife (Scotland). The main attraction was The Attic Archive on at The Y (Marathon House, Bonnygate, Cupar, Fife KY15 4LG). The Attic is a private space on Dundee's Union Street that has been an international centre for marginal art collaborations since the early 1970s; the...
October 12, 2009
'Famous' glamour model Sammy Marshall stars in amazing one pound porno bargains including "Golden Shower Girls" & "Lesbian Amateur"!!!
Yes, those crazy non-erotic soft porn DVDs are invading UK pound shops once again, which led Justin to comment on my Jenna Jameson blog of a few days ago: "Have you noticed that Poundland actually sell porn DVDs?" Well, I blogged about the porno on offer in pound shops back in the days when I was posting on MySpace. Poundland still seem to be concentrating on the more 'tasteful' Penthouse and Electric Blue type stuff. Pound shops stuffed with trash DVDs, let alone euro or dollar shops...
October 10, 2009
Is Tony Wilson even worth thinking about? Or 24 Hour Party People really sucks!
24 Hour Party People (2002) kept coming up in conversations I was having as I wandered around the UK, and so I have finally checked it out, although I am no fan of director Michael Winterbottom. This particular film with its super self-conscious po-mo ersatz drug patter is more like his A Cock & Bull Story(2005) than Wonderland (1999) – and let's not even get into the puke-inducing television journalist-centred Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), or the pathetic 'pop cultural' 9 Songs (2004)...
October 8, 2009
Jenna Jameson steals the show in Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain
Those of you with long memories may recall that I wasn't too thrilled when I got around to watching Jenna Jameson in Zombie Strippers, but now I've found a horror film in which the hardcore porn legend doesn't star but she does really steal the show. Evil Breed directed by Christian Viel is a train wreck of a movie. It starts with some hetro sex in a tent and a stupid murder, then cuts to the title credits, and during this there is really bad heavy metal playing on the soundtrack. I watched ...
October 6, 2009
Capitalism can only go backwards, it has nowhere else to go!
Although it is only a matter of time, capitalism hasn't collapsed yet; but even so, right now the way it is going backwards is still a groove sensation – empty retail units and what only a couple of years ago would have seemed like really unlikely pop-ups in place of tedious corporate chains.
As a teenager in the 1970s I always loved exchange bookshops and there were plenty of them in London, even in the centre of town… you'd buy a paperback and if you didn't want to keep it you could trade...
October 4, 2009
Redchurch Street in the fall, or art in the dark…
Catching the opening performance of Shaun Caton's '…netherwhat…' at the Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery I could have imagined I'd walked into a time warp had I not been in Redchurch Street… I hadn't seen Caton do a performance since the 1980s, and I understand he's done nothing in London for the past 15 years, but he seemed to be picking up from where I'd left off with him. Every Caton performance may be unique but he also runs through endless variations on the same theme in his shamanistic...
October 1, 2009
Miss Leslie's Dolls at BFI Flipside
Just when you think the monthly Flipside untamed cinema screenings at the BFI (Belvedere Road, Southbank, London, SE1 8XT) can't get any more entertaining and deranged, that's just what happens. Wednesday's session began as always with the hardcore comedy double-act of Will Fowler and Vic Pratt. Next, Julian Marsh III rolled out of the audience to explain that contrary to blog rumour, Miss Leslie's Dolls was not a lost movie – because he had a 35mm copy at home (and while Marsh didn't...
September 30, 2009
Gustav Metzger opening at the Serpentine Gallery
The Gustav Metzger retrospective Decades 1959-2009 is the most extensive single exhibition of auto-destructive art ever to be held in London. Not just the work, but also the head-on collision between the Serpentine as a chic white cube space and Metzger's decidedly funky left-field practice is in itself interesting. The good news first, and that is Metzger's Liquid Crystal Environment has never looked better! With the walls inside the North Gallery painted black, and very effective blackout c...
September 28, 2009
The "Game of War" film at the HTTP Gallery
Yesterday I travelled to the far-north of London to catch the world premier of the Class Wargames film The Game Of War at the HTTP Gallery, close to Green Lanes. Divided into five segments of five minutes, the individual parts of this movie can be viewed in any order. While appearing to heap extravagant praise on Guy Debord, the film actually undermined his vanguardist positions by massively exaggerating the problematic self-promotional aspects of his film-making and other...
September 26, 2009
Banned by YouTube but "10 Erotic Movies" is available once again via Vimeo
I finally got around to adding my banned YouTube video 10 Erotic Movies to my Vimeo account. Check it out and marvel at the fact that after 21,442 hits, YouTube banned this for inappropriate content:
Despite this, I'm continuing to post the odd video to YouTube, since that platform has a larger and more active user base than Vimeo. My most recent YouTube posting is Shoreditch Shredding Machine Massacre:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJELyF3yrSs>
But if the countdown f...
