I haven't been to the ballet since  Paquita, by the Ballet de l'Opera national de Paris in Beijing, 2008.  You can read that linked ...

As Outlined in Jerk Jam at Palmerston park , Southampton's Reclaim The Streets day was for all the family. I noticed that some of those...

This is probably the slowest post I've ever finally got round to.  On Friday the 24th of September last year (2021), I was walking home ...

Neil Sanders has a wealth of information on cultural creation, manipulation and cessation by the usual suspects.

The entire series of Brideshead Revisited  is up on Youtube for the time being. I've just watched the series again for the se...

Ostensibly this talk is about culture but that's such a flabby word I prefer to use counterculture to define where the debate...

Joseph Chilton Pearce is unaware of the forces that thrive off dividing humanity and even admits to believing in the Flavian dyna...

Earlier this week I took a thought I had one step further. Ten years ago rushing in Thailand was seen as vulgar and so people w...

Chris Knowles is interviewed by Adam Gorightly of Untamed Dimension for a back drop to the entangled relationship of music, b...

It's hard to take the white-trash icons of smut-pop and sleaze-agenda seriously when Chinese pensioners are ripping it to shr...

I was just watching Chris Hedges being insulted by Kevin O'Leary of CBC . He asked him if he was a left-wing nutbar after C...

There are a number of shorter Terence McKenna clips condensing this theme but I don't think there's any substitution for l...

It isn't called the Internet K-Hole for nothing. Seriously addictive slice of prurient mullet-life in 80's America...

It's the Thai New Year Festival called Songkran , and pampered society is outraged by the water festival revellers stripping in th...

It took me a couple of weeks to watch this movie. I could only do five or ten minutes at a time. Too painful in too many ways. It's ev...

Some days my email inbox is one thick Smuckers chocolate fudge jar leaking pure intellectual indulgence of sweet but lucid and illuminati...

A few weeks back I was listening to Doug Rushkoff's media masters podcasts and introduced to an unusually voiced character (actuall...

It feels like there's an air of unreality and hyper reality colliding in a mid jet-stream spectacular of post-modernism meets earnest-...

I wrote most of this on paper and so you may detect a different tonality and flow to the text. I guess I need to start somewhere on the...

My career is dotted with ads I ideas I couldn't coax through the system. There was the "Freedom" idea for Coca-cola or ...