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November 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: No Gloomy Sunday

a Billie Holiday song sings for my heart a Todd Solondz film plays for my soul the pages of David Sedaris flick through my mind the coffee’s going cold my love is warm, the weather is irrelevant and I’ll climb over imposter syndrome start another week in hope, with hype, at the very least surround […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Billie Holiday, David Sedaris, No Gloomy Sunday, Poem, Poem: No Gloomy Sunday, Todd Solondz ·

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February 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 104 – Megan Dunn

Welcome to episode 104 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Megan Dunn – she’s an artist, art-critic and writer. She’s recently released the book Tinderbox – which I loved. I contacted Megan for a chat because I’d enjoyed some of the press and interviews around Tinderbox […]
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April 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Do I Sound Gay?: DVD

Do I Sound Gay? Director: David Thorpe Impact Partners/Little Punk/Madman An interesting idea stretched a little thin perhaps – Do I Sound  Gay?  attempts to discuss “internalized homophobia” around the gay voice. So director David Thorpe – in his debut feature-length film – goes to a variety of talking heads, some as funny as you […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged David Sedaris, David Thorpe, Do I Sound Gay?, Do I Sound Gay?: DVD, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film, Film Review, Morgan Spurlock, Movie ·

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August 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Luke Haines: Rock and Roll Animals

Luke Haines Rock and Roll Animals Cherry Red/Southbound Only a cunt like Luke Haines would make an album like Rock and Roll Animals. Notice I said would rather than could. Almost anyone could give it a go – most wouldn’t allow it out in public; too scared they’d be laughed out of town if they […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blerta, Cherry Red, Concept Album, David Bowie, David Sedaris, Gene Vincent, Jimmy Pursey, Luke Haines, Nick Lowe, Pink Floyd, Robyn Hitchcock, Rock and Roll Animals, Sham 69, Southbound, The Auteurs, Woody Allen ·

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July 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

David Sedaris: Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls

Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls: Essays, etc… David Sedaris Little, Brown In terms of creative non-fiction, personal essays and cataloguing folly and foibles it’s David Sedaris. He’s top of the list. It used to be Woody Allen – and you get the feeling that Allen’s still (pretty much) top of Sedaris’ own list – but […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged American Humourist, Book Review, David Sedaris, Essay, Humour, Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls, Short Stories, Woody Allen ·

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