I read The Catcher in the Rye in my early twenties. I rushed it a bit because someone had told me how it was a book that had to be read at a certain time in your life to be fully appreciated. I get it now, at the time I thought I was too old. The Catcher in the Rye was J D Sailnger’s only novel and was published in 1951. It gradually achieved a status that made him cringe a little. For a long time, were talking decades here, Salingers book was a kind of universal rite of passage for a million adolescents, a bible for the disenchanted youth.
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Last week VBS sent over this quite saddening documentary about the rise in heroin use in Swansea. Filmed over 6 months, it follows the lives of a mix of young heroin users who are constantly on and off the drug. Directed by Leo Leigh and Andy Capper, Swansea Love Story is the newest installment of the Rule Britannia series. This is really worth watching and will be aired in Feb on their website. Full review to come from us. Read the rest of this entry »
Can everyone settle down about the bloody iPad please?
Last night the marmite of the tech world unveiled it’s latest device to millions of people refreshing their Twitter feeds and browsers to the point of developing calluses on their fingers eagerly awaiting a shiny new toy from Apple Inc.
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Most people don’t come close to realising how safe there lives are. Most people don’t even think about the world past their door in fact, after visiting Slovakia I tend not to moan because my overdraft is getting out of hand, it has that effect. Bratislava is a tourist town, plenty of stag and hen parties and people walking into each other with cameras. Then you step outside the city, the further out you get and the more it looks like a nuclear testing site. This was where our Hostel was, about 3 miles out of the city. The rooms were small, old and housed 3 each at a squeeze. The showers were communal therefore the up-most concentration was forced upon when handling the soap.
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Next year I will be thirty years old and as far as I know, I have no biological children. I admit and openly confess that I am not against the idea of having children, nor am I perplexed as to why I haven’t managed to create life yet. I actually feel I am ready for children, albeit I am increasingly worried about taking my potential offspring to visit Santa’s grotto when the time becomes inevitable.
This peculiar trepidation of mine has nothing to do with my anti-philanthropic nature towards commercial stores or saying farewell to a perfectly good fiver to see my over excited and delusional kids get MEGA happy or anything, but more the increasing faults of a ‘had it’ society.
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