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Sixth Bottle From the Left.
I recently started a new job, as a process worker in a factory. I’ve never worked in this environment before. It’s full time (which is good because I could use the income) but it’s shift work on a rotating pattern – nights, lates and earlies. This has left me no time to get my head […]
I’ll Be Holding On.
This song by the late great Greg Allman is, as you can see from the clip, from the 1989 Ridley Scott film ‘Black Rain’ starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia. It is one of my favorite films, due in part to the setting and characters but also because it’s Ridley Scott who is an artist. […]
The Great Wave.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa-oki nami ura?, “Under a wave off Kanagawa”), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai. It was published sometime between 1830 and 1833[1] in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai’s series Thirty-six […]
I’m Not Lucas Hood.
Cinemax’s Banshee is, quite simply, THE best pulp fiction action show of its kind ever conceived. The story lines are engrossing, the characters have depth and sophistication and are acted by a perfect(ly) cast of top class actors – every one of them at the very top of their professional game. Novelist Jonathan Tropper is, […]
Once More, Under The Black.
Black Sails is a Starz Cable TV production I have followed avidly since it’s inception. Set twenty years prior to the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, it charts the rise to power (and high seas infamy) of a certain Long John Silver (compellingly played by Luke Arnold). It premiers it’s fourth and […]
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