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December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 216 – Howl, Wellington, 2010

When I was introduced to the poem Howl and the poems in that book and any other things by Allen Ginsberg it blew my mind. Right time. Right place. University – first year, eager, hungry. And this madness, these lines, this attitude, it infected me. And I’ve been a fan of the Beat poets and […]

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August 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Tom Roston: I Lost It At The Video Store – A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era

I Lost It At The Video Store: A Filmmakers’ Oral History of a Vanished Era Tom Roston The Critical Press This well-intentioned, slim volume aims to bring together a range of voices around the idea of the local video store being the birth place of modern independent cinema and indie-filmmaking; most famously Quentin Tarantino and […]

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August 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Devonte Hynes: Palo Alto [OST]

Devonte Hynes Palo Alto [Original Motion Picture Score] Domino Perfect timing for me arriving at this on the back of revisiting the score for Only God Forgives – there’s something similar, in the gauziness perhaps; Peter Gabriel’s Slow Marimabas replaced by the different dance of almost agonisingly awkward (and slow) synth pads. But it’s full […]