Monthly Archives: December 2008

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.

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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.

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Le Menu Gastrophonique Ep.13


EPISODE 13 : A quiche with goat cheese, pasta with sausages, a toast with humos, a glass of wine, a yogurt and a cup of tea. Which sounds like what ?

-Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier- http://papier.brouillon.free.fr

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Reality Check: Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46

Reality Check: Michael Winterbottom’s Code 46

Michael Winterbottom directs Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton in Code 46, Photo by Peter Mountain, courtesy of United Artists.

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

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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Panel Borders: Justin Hall and Glamazonia

Panel Borders: Justin Hall and Glamazonia

Partially broadcast 11/12/08 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM

Glamazonia

Continuing gay comics month on Panel Borders: in the second of two shows about the Queer Press Grant, Alex Fitch talks to one of the winners of last year’s grant – Justin Hall about his comic “Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super Tranny”, which tells the tale of a transgender super-heroine fighting mythical creatures, serial killers and old fashioned super hero origin stories

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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VENUS RISING with artist Maggi Hambling


VENUS RISING with artist Maggi Hambling

A series of 8 conversations about women and art, presented by Sharon Gal.

Each program presents a different conversation with a woman who has
direct involvement in the field and guests include artists, curators,
writers and collectors. The series explores the wide perspective of
women’s experience and investigates the role of women in shaping art
and influencing the art world.

In this episode Sharon Gal is in conversation with artist Maggi
Hambling, a figurative painter, sculptor and printmaker whose strong
identification with her subjects is expressed in bold handling and
colour. Her best known public works are a memorial to Oscar Wild in
central London and Scallop, a 4 metre high steel sculpture of two
interlocking scallop shells on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to composer
Benjamin Britten.

Originally broadcast on Wed 29 Oct, 17:00 – 17:30

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Wavelength – 2007 June 15th Explorer and bon viveur

Explorer and bon viveur James Tregaskis speculates on his forthcoming motorcycle journey to Alaska

William English

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Le Menu Gastrophonique ep.12


EPISODE 12 : Would you fancy a burger under Paris ? This menu has been recorded during a burger party into a former bomb shelter under the area of Montparnasse in south of Paris. Unfortunatly Nicole get sick and the climb up was hard !

-Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier- http://papier.brouillon.free.fr

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Panel Borders: The art of Howard Hardiman

Panel Borders: The art of Howard Hardiman

Howard Hardimans Badger

Howard Hardiman's Badger

It’s the start of Gay Comics month on Resonance FM (season of good will to all men and whatnot) and we kick off with an ideal Christmas present for children of all ages: Badger by up and coming artist Howard Hardiman. Alex and Howard talk about funny animal / anthropomorphic titles and their relation to autobiography, having a sense of location in comics and the tricky art of marketing a new product…

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