Tag: J. G. Ballard
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The Black Dog – Sheffield Favourites
I’m a strange mongrel, one foot in Manchester and the other in Sheffield (appropriate metaphor since it’s always pissing on the Pennines). My family come from Sheffield so I have a particular fondness for the grey and damp rainy city (more overgrown village), it’s seven hills ‘just like Rome!’ and it’s put upon citizens. So…
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The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned
On an early Ultravox kick since a friend reminded me that they recorded their sixth album with George Martin (6 albums in 5 years – puts the navel-gazing of current artist release schedules to shame doesn’t it?). I know the “happy fed” Midge Ure Vox, but didn’t know the critically acclaimed but couldn’t get a…
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Gentrification: The Horror Movie
Doesn’t this look like some Ballardian dystopian horror fiction? Something out of American Psycho? So much so, someone has recut it with that footage: The real horror is the vapid emptiness of the vision, and the pure naked greed, like the reviled yuppies in the 80’s, but that was a local phenomenon. And the fact…