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January 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

DVD Review: The House With A Clock In Its Walls – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 7)

The House With A Clock In Its Walls Director: Eli Roth DreamWorks Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 7) Hi guys, it’s me again, Oscar. Happy New Year and I hope you all have a great 2019! I’m going to review the Cate Blanchett and Jack Black movie, The House With A Clock In It Walls. I wrote a […]

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August 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

My Life In Seven Songs

Song 1: Once In A Lifetime, Talking Heads The drums push forward, the bass pulls back and this isn’t really a song, it’s a bunch of ideas falling over themselves, cascading, oscillating, evading melody in favour of finding a groove. The words are catchphrases, evangelical, delightful. A tune existing in its own space, in its […]

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May 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The 7 Highly Effective Essays I Meant To Write But Decided, Instead, To Simply Turn In As Clickbait-Styled Headlines:

1 – “Somebody Has Written Something With A Capital Letter To Start Each And Every Word…And We Are, Like Grace Jones Before Us, Slaves To The Rhythm, Except We Are Not Forced To Do Icky Manual Labour Without Pay, We Are Simply Loving It And We Want More And Then Even More And More!” 2 […]

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March 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

David Bowie’s Most Underrated Album: 1. Outside

People talk about David Bowie’s phenomenal run of albums across the 1970s – and it really is (almost all) great. So much of it is wonderful, sublime, so near to perfect. And depending where you stop on the scale you have the absolute cut-off of Scary Monsters or tolerance/appreciation for Let’s Dance. From there it’s […]