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October 30, 2020
The Cut
Is it just us, or are things getting a little bit spoopy around here? Welcome, guys and ghouls, to the All Hallows’ Eve Eve edition of The Cut! There’s a few creepy links, as well as our usual witches brew of linkarology. No trick, just treats!
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Modern special effects techniques can deliver pretty much any vision the film-makers choose to imagine. But the early days of digital SFX were able to provide truly mind-bending moments. Let’s take a closer look at one shot from Robert Zemeckis’ Contact that still has people wondering how it was achieved…
https://filmschoolrejects.com/contact-mirror-scene/
This week saw the 63rd birthday of the Arch Druud, Julian Cope. We’ve been fans of the man, his music and his interests for a long time. We have taken holidays based around his compendium of British henge sites, The Modern Antiquarian. Copey can always be relied upon too give us a good story. What better time, then, to remember his appearance on Top Of The Pops, performing Passionate Friend with a little chemical assistance…
https://bristlingbadger.blogspot.com/2009/03/passionate-friend-on-acid.html?m=1
Yes, we know we bang on about Bruce Springsteen a lot on The Cut. We make no apologies. He’s a long-time favourite and on top form right now. We loved this long chat with The Boss, where he shares some of the thoughts, influences and inspirations behind his remarkable new album Letter To You…
If you read nothing else from The Cut this week, we urge you to check out Kelly Welles’ piece on forgiveness, adaptability and the freedom to change your mind. This is becoming more difficult in a world where opinions are becoming more brutally binary, and the internet keeps all your mistakes out in the open to be prodded at and weaponised…
https://kellywelles.com/2020/10/23/grace-under-fire/
Let’s have a couple of Halloween links. We found a lot to think on after reading this piece on one of the most deadly witch-hunts in British history, which took place in an area you wouldn’t have thought to have such a bloody history…
http://dundeescottishculture.org/history/the-crook-of-devon-witches/
One of the BBC’s scariest moments frightened its audience all the more for cloaking the fictional aspects of the story in a reality-TV disguise. Ghostwatch remains a show which has influenced a lot of found-footage horror ever since. Even now it’s creepy as heck, and the ending willl send you off to bed needing all the lights on…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch
The adaptation of book to movie is a tricky thing to get right. The two art forms are so different that it’s a wonder there have been any successful film versions of beloved books at all. Sometimes it’s better to veer off and carve a path suggested by the text rather than slavishly stick to the roadmap. The Shining, for example, is very different to the book. Not better, not worse. Just—different. With that in mind, enjoy this Popdose article theorising that some of the best adaptations have nothing to do with a particular book at all…
We would be foolish not to crank up the amp and make some noise about the WROB Halloween show we did a little while back. Here’s the pitch…
For those of us that both love and hate this time of year…Those for whom Halloween is not just a date, or an excuse to wear a spooky costume once a year and hit up strangers for free sweeties…Those of us for whom Halloween is a state of mind, a way of being, a comforting chilly darkness… This one goes out to all of us that are … Too Heavy For Halloween.
https://wrobradio.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/too-heavy-for-halloween/
It would be tempting to throw a bit of metal in for the Exit Music. However, we’ve been listening to a lot of clangular jangularity recently, and this cracking piece of apocalyptic pop (apopcalycto?) from the dBs just seemed too appropriate not to share. A soundtrack for The Situation. Please to enjoy That Time Is Gone.
See you in seven.
The Cut
Is it just us, or are things getting a little bit spoopy around here? Welcome, guys and ghouls, to the All Hallows’ Eve Eve edition of The Cut! There’s a few creepy links, as well as our usual witches brew of linkarology. No trick, just treats!
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Modern special effects techniques can deliver pretty much any vision the film-makers choose to imagine. But the early days of digital SFX were able to provide truly mind-bending moments. Let’s take a closer look at one shot from Robert Zemeckis’ Contact that still has people wondering how it was achieved…
https://filmschoolrejects.com/contact-mirror-scene/
This week saw the 63rd birthday of the Arch Druud, Julian Cope. We’ve been fans of the man, his music and his interests for a long time. We have taken holidays based around his compendium of British henge sites, The Modern Antiquarian. Copey can always be relied upon too give us a good story. What better time, then, to remember his appearance on Top Of The Pops, performing Passionate Friend with a little chemical assistance…
https://bristlingbadger.blogspot.com/2009/03/passionate-friend-on-acid.html?m=1
Yes, we know we bang on about Bruce Springsteen a lot on The Cut. We make no apologies. He’s a long-time favourite and on top form right now. We loved this long chat with The Boss, where he shares some of the thoughts, influences and inspirations behind his remarkable new album Letter To You…
If you read nothing else from The Cut this week, we urge you to check out Kelly Welles’ piece on forgiveness, adaptability and the freedom to change your mind. This is becoming more difficult in a world where opinions are becoming more brutally binary, and the internet keeps all your mistakes out in the open to be prodded at and weaponised…
https://kellywelles.com/2020/10/23/grace-under-fire/
Let’s have a couple of Halloween links. We found a lot to think on after reading this piece on one of the most deadly witch-hunts in British history, which took place in an area you wouldn’t have thought to have such a bloody history…
http://dundeescottishculture.org/history/the-crook-of-devon-witches/
One of the BBC’s scariest moments frightened its audience all the more for cloaking the fictional aspects of the story in a reality-TV disguise. Ghostwatch remains a show which has influenced a lot of found-footage horror ever since. Even now it’s creepy as heck, and the ending willl send you off to bed needing all the lights on…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch
The adaptation of book to movie is a tricky thing to get right. The two art forms are so different that it’s a wonder there have been any successful film versions of beloved books at all. Sometimes it’s better to veer off and carve a path suggested by the text rather than slavishly stick to the roadmap. The Shining, for example, is very different to the book. Not better, not worse. Just—different. With that in mind, enjoy this Popdose article theorising that some of the best adaptations have nothing to do with a particular book at all…
We would be foolish not to crank up the amp and make some noise about the WROB Halloween show we did a little while back. Here’s the pitch…
For those of us that both love and hate this time of year…Those for whom Halloween is not just a date, or an excuse to wear a spooky costume once a year and hit up strangers for free sweeties…Those of us for whom Halloween is a state of mind, a way of being, a comforting chilly darkness… This one goes out to all of us that are … Too Heavy For Halloween.
https://wrobradio.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/too-heavy-for-halloween/
It would be tempting to throw a bit of metal in for the Exit Music. However, we’ve been listening to a lot of clangular jangularity recently, and this cracking piece of apocalyptic pop (apopcalycto?) from the dBs just seemed too appropriate not to share. A soundtrack for The Situation. Please to enjoy That Time Is Gone.
See you in seven.
The Cut
Is it just us, or are things getting a little bit spoopy around here? Welcome, guys and ghouls, to the All Hallows’ Eve Eve edition of The Cut! There’s a few creepy links, as well as our usual witches brew of linkarology. No trick, just treats!
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Modern special effects techniques can deliver pretty much any vision the film-makers choose to imagine. But the early days of digital SFX were able to provide truly mind-bending moments. Let’s take a closer look at one shot from Robert Zemeckis’ Contact that still has people wondering how it was achieved…
https://filmschoolrejects.com/contact-mirror-scene/
This week saw the 63rd birthday of the Arch Druud, Julian Cope. We’ve been fans of the man, his music and his interests for a long time. We have taken holidays based around his compendium of British henge sites, The Modern Antiquarian. Copey can always be relied upon too give us a good story. What better time, then, to remember his appearance on Top Of The Pops, performing Passionate Friend with a little chemical assistance…
https://bristlingbadger.blogspot.com/2009/03/passionate-friend-on-acid.html?m=1
Yes, we know we bang on about Bruce Springsteen a lot on The Cut. We make no apologies. He’s a long-time favourite and on top form right now. We loved this long chat with The Boss, where he shares some of the thoughts, influences and inspirations behind his remarkable new album Letter To You…
If you read nothing else from The Cut this week, we urge you to check out Kelly Welles’ piece on forgiveness, adaptability and the freedom to change your mind. This is becoming more difficult in a world where opinions are becoming more brutally binary, and the internet keeps all your mistakes out in the open to be prodded at and weaponised…
https://kellywelles.com/2020/10/23/grace-under-fire/
Let’s have a couple of Halloween links. We found a lot to think on after reading this piece on one of the most deadly witch-hunts in British history, which took place in an area you wouldn’t have thought to have such a bloody history…
http://dundeescottishculture.org/history/the-crook-of-devon-witches/
One of the BBC’s scariest moments frightened its audience all the more for cloaking the fictional aspects of the story in a reality-TV disguise. Ghostwatch remains a show which has influenced a lot of found-footage horror ever since. Even now it’s creepy as heck, and the ending willl send you off to bed needing all the lights on…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch
The adaptation of book to movie is a tricky thing to get right. The two art forms are so different that it’s a wonder there have been any successful film versions of beloved books at all. Sometimes it’s better to veer off and carve a path suggested by the text rather than slavishly stick to the roadmap. The Shining, for example, is very different to the book. Not better, not worse. Just—different. With that in mind, enjoy this Popdose article theorising that some of the best adaptations have nothing to do with a particular book at all…
We would be foolish not to crank up the amp and make some noise about the WROB Halloween show we did a little while back. Here’s the pitch…
For those of us that both love and hate this time of year…Those for whom Halloween is not just a date, or an excuse to wear a spooky costume once a year and hit up strangers for free sweeties…Those of us for whom Halloween is a state of mind, a way of being, a comforting chilly darkness… This one goes out to all of us that are … Too Heavy For Halloween.
https://wrobradio.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/too-heavy-for-halloween/
It would be tempting to throw a bit of metal in for the Exit Music. However, we’ve been listening to a lot of clangular jangularity recently, and this cracking piece of apocalyptic pop (apopcalycto?) from the dBs just seemed too appropriate not to share. A soundtrack for The Situation. Please to enjoy That Time Is Gone.
See you in seven.
The Cut
Is it just us, or are things getting a little bit spoopy around here? Welcome, guys and ghouls, to the All Hallows’ Eve Eve edition of The Cut! There’s a few creepy links, as well as our usual witches brew of linkarology. No trick, just treats!
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Modern special effects techniques can deliver pretty much any vision the film-makers choose to imagine. But the early days of digital SFX were able to provide truly mind-bending moments. Let’s take a closer look at one shot from Robert Zemeckis’ Contact that still has people wondering how it was achieved…
https://filmschoolrejects.com/contact-mirror-scene/
This week saw the 63rd birthday of the Arch Druud, Julian Cope. We’ve been fans of the man, his music and his interests for a long time. We have taken holidays based around his compendium of British henge sites, The Modern Antiquarian. Copey can always be relied upon too give us a good story. What better time, then, to remember his appearance on Top Of The Pops, performing Passionate Friend with a little chemical assistance…
https://bristlingbadger.blogspot.com/2009/03/passionate-friend-on-acid.html?m=1
Yes, we know we bang on about Bruce Springsteen a lot on The Cut. We make no apologies. He’s a long-time favourite and on top form right now. We loved this long chat with The Boss, where he shares some of the thoughts, influences and inspirations behind his remarkable new album Letter To You…
If you read nothing else from The Cut this week, we urge you to check out Kelly Welles’ piece on forgiveness, adaptability and the freedom to change your mind. This is becoming more difficult in a world where opinions are becoming more brutally binary, and the internet keeps all your mistakes out in the open to be prodded at and weaponised…
https://kellywelles.com/2020/10/23/grace-under-fire/
Let’s have a couple of Halloween links. We found a lot to think on after reading this piece on one of the most deadly witch-hunts in British history, which took place in an area you wouldn’t have thought to have such a bloody history…
http://dundeescottishculture.org/history/the-crook-of-devon-witches/
One of the BBC’s scariest moments frightened its audience all the more for cloaking the fictional aspects of the story in a reality-TV disguise. Ghostwatch remains a show which has influenced a lot of found-footage horror ever since. Even now it’s creepy as heck, and the ending willl send you off to bed needing all the lights on…
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/26/how-we-made-bbc-mockumentary-ghostwatch
The adaptation of book to movie is a tricky thing to get right. The two art forms are so different that it’s a wonder there have been any successful film versions of beloved books at all. Sometimes it’s better to veer off and carve a path suggested by the text rather than slavishly stick to the roadmap. The Shining, for example, is very different to the book. Not better, not worse. Just—different. With that in mind, enjoy this Popdose article theorising that some of the best adaptations have nothing to do with a particular book at all…
We would be foolish not to crank up the amp and make some noise about the WROB Halloween show we did a little while back. Here’s the pitch…
For those of us that both love and hate this time of year…Those for whom Halloween is not just a date, or an excuse to wear a spooky costume once a year and hit up strangers for free sweeties…Those of us for whom Halloween is a state of mind, a way of being, a comforting chilly darkness… This one goes out to all of us that are … Too Heavy For Halloween.
https://wrobradio.wordpress.com/2018/11/02/too-heavy-for-halloween/
It would be tempting to throw a bit of metal in for the Exit Music. However, we’ve been listening to a lot of clangular jangularity recently, and this cracking piece of apocalyptic pop (apopcalycto?) from the dBs just seemed too appropriate not to share. A soundtrack for The Situation. Please to enjoy That Time Is Gone.
See you in seven.
October 23, 2020
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
The Cut
It is a week when Phil Collins’ ex-wife barricaded herself in his mansion with armed guards at the door, a woodworking show featured a face-tatted Nazi sympathiser, and one-time Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani was caught with his hands down his kecks in the presence of an actress in the new Borat movie. Frankly, we can’t compete with that. Come, hide under the covers with us and enjoy some writing that won’t make you feel like the abyss is staring into you.
Now is the time. Here is the place. This is The Cut.
Pubs in the time of The Situation have never been more under threat. The government seems to be targeting the humble hostelry with an aggressive, almost puritanical zeal—despite evidence that pubs are not a vector of viral spread. The irony is that the British pub scene was born out of the aftermath of an earlier pandemic—the Black Death…
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-the-oldest-pub
The arts have also taken a battering of late, with the government ‘encouraging’ creative types to retrain if they can’t make a living in The Situation. An online campaign along those lines was met with richly-deserved derision. Writer John Bull takes the character of Fatima, the star of the most laughed-at poster, and considers what her career in ‘cyber’ could actually look like…
https://medium.com/@garius/the-ballerina-9620f2d4854f
It’s not all bad news in the arts world. Film sets have slowly reopened and furloughed productions are grinding back to life. After all, we need something to watch besides the news, right? But filming under Covid restrictions has its own set of challenges. Actress Niamh Walsh tells us more…
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/niamh-walsh-filming-during-pandemic
Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. For many culinarily-challenged Americans faced with a giant turkey, the holiday means a call to the experts at the Butterball Turkey Line. It’s been a part of the culture for decades. This year, with the focus ever more on home comforts, the Turkey Line has become more important than ever…
http://read.medium.com/ZePws1N
We loved this reading of the Alien movies, reframing them as commentary on class—especially the tension existing between the working and management class. Weyland-Yutani have always been villainous, but seeing one of the great fictional corporations as oppressors is a fascinating new way to look at the movies. Time to dig out that box set again, we feel…
https://neotextcorp.com/culture/game-over-man-the-alien-franchise-as-working-class-horror/
2020 has been the year of huge anniversaries. For us Ninth Art fans, none is more important than the 40th birthday of one of the greatest comic books of all times—Maus. Mixing history, memoir and meta-commentary, it’s hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Sam Leith talks to the creator of Maus, Art Spiegelman, to find out how Maus still comments powerfully on the world and the animals in it…
If you think there’s no way into a sense of wonder anymore, consider this. We’ve just remotely piloted a probe the size of a truck millions of miles through space to rendezvous with a tiny asteroid, landing for just long enough to grab a trowel full of rock samples—an event the deputy mission scientist described as “kissing the surface with a short touch-and-go measured in just seconds.” The OSIRIS-REx flight is a mind-boggling achievement. A dance, a touch, a kiss, done and dusted in moments.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-10-20/nasas-osiris-rex-touches-asteroid-to-grab-sampe
And finally. We are huge fans of Sohla El-Waylly, the still calm centre of the Bon Appetit kitchen. When she left, revealing the disparity in pay and conditions between her and her white colleagues, Bon Appetit crumbled in her wake. Now she’s found a home with Andrew Rea in the Babish Culinary Universe. Vulture talks to Sohla as she takes on new challenges—like cooking mac and cheese only using eighteenth-century tools…
https://www.vulture.com/article/sohla-el-waylly-profile.html
There’s a new Bruce Springsteen album out. What more do we need to say? Your Exit Music is the lead track from Letter To You, which reunites The Boss with the E Street Band in a barnstorming collection of new songs recorded in a hectic five day session. They’re back just when we needed them the most.
See you in seven.
