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June 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

#UNFIT – The Psychology of Donald Trump: Film

#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump Director: Dan Partland Spectrum / Documentary Edge Festival The current sitting president of America – their 45th – is a horrible, uncaring, negative, double-speaking piece of shit. Or, in psychology-speak, a malignant narcissist. Yep, there’s a term for his brand of bullying and gaslighting – mixed with fear, arrogance, […]
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April 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 128

Pam Ayers, Some Of Me Poems and Songs (1976) I’ve long been a fan of Pam Ayers – as a kid I would crack up at her voice; as much as the things she said it was the way she said them. And then those rhymes. Endless and fascinating and funny. She was one of […]
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February 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

He likes Doing It. He Likes Being It: The Overseer of The Architecture of Songs – “I Wanted To Be A Filmmaker Anyway” – Alejandro Escovedo on Trump, his new album, overcoming “That Disease” and then the songs, the music, the influence of his family, the connection, the gift…

Alejandro Escovedo is a songwriter’s songwriter – people like Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams and Bob Dylan reference him among their favourites – not only that, he has backstory that would make you want to get on board anyway. Maybe even if his own music wasn’t super-great, which it is and has been across the last quarter-century. His enviable […]
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September 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power: Film

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Directors: Bonni Cohen/Jon Shenk Actual Films/Partipant Media A decade after An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore returns to the documentary form to remind us that the world is hurtling to its demise, that global warming is real, that the global warning has been ignored for far too long and that […]
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June 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Nobody Speak – Trials of the Free Press: Film

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press Director: Brian Knappenberger Luminant Media/Submarine/Netflix Ostensibly Nobody Speak: Trials of The Free Press is about the court case between celebrity-busted-snark-news site Gawker and “American Hero” Hulk Hogan. But it’s there in the title and it becomes increasingly apparent across the film’s duration – with its final third focussed […]
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June 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

P. J. O’Rourke: How The Hell Did This Happen? – The Election of 2016

How The Hell Did This Happen? – The Election of 2016 P.J. O’Rourke Atlantic Monthly Press As a teenager and then particularly in my early 20s I read a lot of P.J. O’Rourke. At first I probably didn’t even notice his political worldview…I’m guessing that because when I did ascertain that he was right-wing, libertarian, […]
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May 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 64 – Patrick Gower

Welcome to episode 64 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys and our brand new sponsor, Le Petite Chocolat – organic and fairtrade craft chocolate from Hastings. Delicious. Check them out…
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February 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 48 – James Robinson

Welcome to episode 48 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Kiwi-born, American-based writer James Robinson. He had a blog on Stuff.co.nz – which he turned into a book. The blog – and then the book – looked at life in America and perceptions of America; the way we, as […]
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November 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Fly My Pretties: String Theory

Fly My Pretties String Theory LOOP It’s the end of the world as we know it…and now a new Fly My Pretties album. This one is almost embarrassingly their absolute worst. Just the fucking pits. But I’m reviewing it on the night that an alleged rapist and known sexual predator will go on to win […]
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