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August 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Take Two Woodstock 99 Documentaries And Make One Dark Reminder of Misogyny (And Shit Music)
I watched all three episodes back-to-back of Netflix’s Woodstock 99 documentary, Trainwreck. Twitter had told me it was compelling and awful and hard to look away, Twitter was outraged, as Twitter so often is. But Twitter probably wasn’t entirely wrong. And, anyway, I had actual friends who had told me that I should see the […]Archive
August 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
How We Listen To – and Collect – Music Has Always Been Changing
One of the ways I discovered new music was having to learn songs to play in a band – anyone who has learnt covers for a band will know that it can be the quickest way to kill a song; you like it the first time, then you really like it when you play it […]Archive
August 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Nope: Film
Nope Director: Jordan Peele Universal Pictures / Monkeypaw Productions Jordan Peele’s third film is going to divide fans – and I’m sure he’d like that. He’s operating on a level where his movies reward repeat viewings, contain deep-cut attention from a huge film and pop-culture geek and also have such a strong social conscience/political narrative […]Archive
August 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
My Regression: Reading Novelisations, Watching TV Movies
I am regressing somewhat into an interesting focus within my areas of interest – movies, music and books. I’ve only just noticed this. A pattern. I’m obsessed with collecting soundtrack albums (on CD) which I’ve decided is a very benign and in-character form of late mid-life crisis. This is healthy-enough and not hurting anyone. I […]Archive
August 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
My New Single Is Available Now – Second Storey Teller: The Residuals
My third single is available for free/pay what you like over on Bandcamp. It’s called Have You Ever Been Experienced? This is part of the soft-launch of my spoken-word+beats side-hustle which is a lark that I’m loving. Earlier in the month I released my first full album, Everybody Wants To Fool The World. But Experienced is not part of […]Archive
August 8, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Bring Concert Films Back To the Big Screen
Going to the movies these days – the return to cinema – is a little like going to a concert. Certain screenings anyway. Recenty, I was at The Roxy for one of their fun, retro screenings. This time it was Army of Darkness. And it was beautiful. Such a funny film, all those great one-liners. […]Archive
August 6, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs
But it is only a very specific type and only at a set price. I won’t pay more than $5 for a CD. (Well, sometimes rules are made to be broken). And I am basically only buying soundtrack albums, instrumental scores. Well, I’ve busted outside of the lines a few times, but it’s the same […]Archive
August 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Elizabeth – A Portrait in Part(s): DVD
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) Director: Roger Michell Madman With its pleased-with-itself subtitle (that doesn’t seem to actually mean anything) Roger Michell’s documentary about the Queen is less a portrait and more a series of scrapbooks; in fact, with its incongruous music, it’s more some sort of smug mixtape. No talking heads. No revelations. And […]Archive
August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Remembering When The Ultimate Warrior Wrote Me A Christmas Card
I loved the Ultimate Warrior. And yet I can’t ever feel completely satisfied with that one sentence. It’s the love of guilty pleasure and therefore needs justification. It is like saying, hypothetically, “I love Kylie Minogue’s Greatest Hits” – or “I really like The Spice Girls Movie”. But just as it could be suggested that […]Archive
August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
#NewFoundPoems
I found some old books on the shelf – very old books, 10c finds from Church fairs from years and years ago. I started scratching out certain words to make new poems. It was fun. Doing it on the fly. One take. If I scratched too far – or took out the wrong word – […]Archive
August 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman