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30 May 2014

Suna no Onna (Sand Woman)

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The Woman in the Dunes (1964), dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara I've always been fascinated by the thought of desert sands and the...
27 May 2014

In Praise of Shyness

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It's wrong to always identify shyness negatively as a form of social anxiety or awkwardness due to low self-esteem, o...
24 May 2014

Brian Clough's Socialism of the Heart

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Brian Clough (1935-2004)   Apart from the fact that he believed in fairies and amusingly challenged Muhammad Ali to a fight, the ...
21 May 2014

The Model and the Mannequins

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Abbey Clancy and friends in the new ad  for Veet and Scholl (Virgo Health/PA, 2014) Just when I thought I'd finished with the qu...
20 May 2014

Love, Hate and Intercourse

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Intercourse: The Life and Work of Andrea Dworkin ,  dir. Pratibha Parmar. Presently being filmed in San Francisco and  scheduled for r...
17 May 2014

In the House of the Sleeping Beauties

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  Emily Browning in Sleeping Beauty (2011) dir. Julia Leigh House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) is a short, surreal novel wr...
15 May 2014

Bodies Mystical and Medical

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I'm still musing at the moment on chakras and all-things- tantra as found in the writings of those whose understanding of the bod...
14 May 2014

Towards a Democracy of Touch

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The very lovely Bethany Leach: a young advocate of the  democracy of touch; see her blog     democracyoftouch.tumblr.com Amused...
8 May 2014

H. P. Lovecraft and the Sordid Topic of Coin

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Isabella Rossellini as Lisle von Rhoman in the 1992 dark  comic fantasy Death Becomes Her , dir. Robert Zemeckis Sometimes, as...
6 May 2014

Aurora Contra Airfix

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As a child, I was never much interested in building complex models of planes and ships and certainly wouldn't describe myself as ...