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Marvin Suicide : 175 – I love soccer.
Some people dig crates of vinyl for their musical requirements, I like to dig the internet.
Hooting Yard : Downmarket Rags
You’ve got to search for the hero inside yourself, particularly if you are the sort of weedy milksop who gets sand kicked into your face by musclebound beach bullies of pronounced homoerotic tendencies. The search for the hero must be addressed with rigour, and you must not allow yourself to be distracted. That is why you should immediately head off towards the dunes and find a secluded nook where you can cogitate uninterrupted. Take your towel with you, and your picnic basket, and the piccolo you brought to the beach with you to practise upon and which was the cause of much cruel merriment to the bronzed hulks who kicked sand in your face.
Six Pillars – Insight & Rakshan Bani Etemad
A season at the British Film Institute of the work of female film director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad. Organised by small not-for-profit company Insight, the season was accompanied by masterclasses given by Bani-Etemad herself and marks the first ever comprehensive screening outside of Iran of her work.
David Omid Alamouti discusses Insight’s alternative models of film-making and the singular style of Bani-Etemad, masterclasses with Mike Leigh and Polish film.
Music by rap artist Reveal and Simorgh linked to Insight through a Contemporary Iranian Music event at Camden Underworld later that month that featured in the Bani Etemad workshops in a student film
Wavelength – 2007 June 22nd Finally a good connection
Finally a good connection to Captain Maurice Seddon demonstrating his idiosyncratic telephone apparatus. Captain Maurice Seddon, Royal Signals (retired), now in his 80s, inventor of electrically heated clothing. Maurice’s telephone operates on a one-way basis making interruption impossible and conversation frustrating.
Panel Borders: The work of Bevis Musson
Panel Borders: The work of Bevis Musson
Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to Bevis Musson the British Indie creator of Oddcases and Queen of Diamonds. Alex and Bevis talk about sexuality in super-hero comics, British eccentrics who investigate strange goings on, how the latter’s background in costume design influences his comics and about the gay small press comics scene in general.
To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
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Marvin Suicide : 174 – Kleenex and Grease
Earlier today I approached the checkout in a supermarket and was given a nice friendly smile from the person about to check my items out.
However, I noticed the smile turn into a smirk and it dawned on me this was probably due to my purchases (it was most definitely not at any profanity scribbled upon my forehead as has been the case previously – I now check thoroughly before venturing outside to prevent this occurring again). I had 3 items – although 2 were sold as a double pack as you are about to find out – one was a twin pack of balsam infused Kleenex tissues and the other was a CD of the original soundtrack to the musical Grease.
Hooting Yard : Mail Order Mannlicher-Carcano Sniper’s Rifle
If you are planning to introduce the phrase “let the cat out of the bag†into a conversation, you can give your words a weightier punch by having a bag with a cat in it, ready to be released at the right moment. This is a variant on the argument from demonstration, and when we are looking at methods of adding heft to what we say, it can be very effective.
Reality Check: Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46
Reality Check: Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46
Michael Winterbottom directs Tim Robbins & Samantha Morton in Code 46, Photo by Peter Mountain, courtesy of United Artists.
During a special Architecture foundation screening of Code 46 at the Barbican centre, Alex Fitch caught up with director Michael Winterbottom in the foyer of the cinema and discussed issues of British Science Fiction, unreliable narrators and the importance of location in Sci-Fi films. Alex and Michael also look at issues of psychogeography, breaking the fourth wall in 24 hour party people and A cock and bull story and why Spielberg’s Minority Report (which also starred Samantha Morton) was an interesting attempt to make realistic SF…
With thanks to the Barbican and the Architecture Foundation – next screening: Los Angeles plays itself on 21st Jan 2009.
For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at Sci-Fi London
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Panel Borders: Tommy Roddy and Pride High
Panel Borders: Tommy Roddy and Pride High
Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Pride High #6
Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders; in the first of two shows, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s Gay Press Grant – Tommy Roddy about his comic “Pride High” which is a hipper version of the “X-Men” that allows the gay characters of a super hero school take centre stage, while dealing with issues of oppression and mortal enemies.
To download or stream the show in a variety of different formats, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
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