Monthly Archives: August 2011

Festivals Are No Picnic

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Electric Picnic is on this weekend and I’m not going! (I know. I know. You all want to rip up your tickets and not bother. Even Arcade Fire are thinking of pulling out.) The truth is that , while the line-up is quite good* and the people are always so nice (about what I did), I have a touch of “festival ennui”. That’s French for “I can’t be arsed going to a festival this year”. It’s just too much like …

Death is a Single Mother

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We all knew that Single Mothers will be the ruination of civilization* but who knew it would go down like this?

Dali does Vogue

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Salvador Dali designed the cover of Vogue serveral times during his lifetime. The last time was in 1971, when he also edited the magazine. Can you imagine what he put in that issue?

My Best Friend’s Sweating

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Screwed Up

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Call me nuts but I think there is a very subtle anti-gay message in this very nicely rendered animation from Austria. The creators say it’s a “love story” and a tale of “not knowing a good thing until it’s gone”.  Yeah, maybe. But I also see a “like should not do like” message “otherwise you’ll end up lonely”.

Circumstance

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  This story of lesbian love set in Iran looks great. It also makes the underground scene in Tehran much better than anything we have going on here in Dublin. Who’s for a move to Iran then? The film won the Sundance Audience Award this year and is getting lots of attention. Here‘s what the HuffPo has to say about it.