Ricky Adam works for Dig Magazine. Our favorite magazine of all time. He also lives in Leeds and has been taking photos of punks snogging and battered buck teethed kids in depressing poverty stricken rural suburbs for a while. He has just re fiddled his website and added more stuff. Go check it out. Oh and defgrip did and interview here.
My love of Alexander Skarsgard (Generation Kill, True Blood) is initially what attracted me to this film, but after reading the blurb on the ICA(Institute of Contemporary Arts) website, I sadly realized he’s only a minor character. However, by this point the film had caught my attention, and I did something I rarely do…bought tickets in advance for a screening. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes even people who one can reason with get caught up in circumstances that end up with them sitting in church on a Sunday. On the 3rd Advent that person was myself, sitting in the third row attending a three-children-in-a-row baptism ceremony held by a priest with a good mood. I was all set to get an inside scoop on how protestant indoctrination takes place in real life, and boy were they prepared to give proof to my completely prejudiced preconceived notions of religious activity. The dude playing the organ even had a haircut I would refer to as the molestation mullet. The major underlying motto of the sermon was Christmas. Read the rest of this entry »
“PLEASE! someone send me an invite to google Mail/Buzz/Wave!”
This is one of the pleas that plague the internet every time Google unleash a service with four letters in it’s title. I know because I’m usually the one thats pleading.
So this week saw the official launch of Google Buzz, most of you are probably thinking “what the frig is google buzz?”
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This should have been posted weeks ago but we are a lazy bunch. Until The Light Takes Us is a new documentary which tells the story of black metal; part music scene and part cultural uprising. We got sent the DVD last week and all watched it together, you really have to watch it to believe what went on and why it went on. Black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for. UTLTU examines the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against Christianity and modern culture.
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