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August 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Private Joker

It just came out one day. “I didn’t know they piled crap that high!” The teacher had said that the building was tall and someone had asked and she had given a figure. A thousand feet in the air she said. And my response – blurted out – aged 10 was almost as worrying as […]
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June 26, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Michael Herr

Michael Herr has died. He was 76. He wrote the greatest book about war, one of the greatest non-fiction books you might ever read. I first came across Herr’s name – and extracts of his work – in the extra reading around the very best university class I took; perhaps the only one that stuck. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Anthony Loyd, Apocalypse Now, Author, Dispatches, Eulogy, Full Metal Jacket, Journalism, Journalist, Michael Herr, Non-FIction, R.I.P., R.I.P. Michael Herr, Soldier, Vietnam, Vietnam War, War, War Reporter, War Reporting, Writer, Writing ·

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September 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Sarah McMullan

Sarah McMullan is a freelance publicist and film reviewer. She had a six-year stint reviewing films at Radio New Zealand, has worked for the New Zealand International Film Festival and currently writes for The 13th Floor and her own The Call Her Square Eye. Here are five films that have stayed with her… I worked […]
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December 31, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1212

V/A, Full Metal Jacket [OST] (1987) Of all the Vietnam War films – and there was a run of them (plus the TV show, Tour of Duty) through the mid-80s my favourite is Full Metal Jacket. Well, let me instead put it this way – the one that had the biggest impact for me was […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], 1987, Abigail Mead, Full Metal Jacket, LP, Score, Soundtrack, Stanley Kubrick, Vinyl, Vivian Kubrick ·

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