Tag: Literature
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Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall
Trust Iron Maiden to be there during the End Times – the collapse of empires, Brexit, Trump, COVID and the implosion of late-state capitalism. And then make an amazing Good Omens vs Mad Max vs Lord of the Rings meets the Bible animated video for it…with samurai Eddies and the four horsemen and the Eden…
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A Change Needs To Come
Not going to preface this with a warning, since these unfortunate people from Emmett Till to George Floyd didn’t get warnings. This has been happening for hundreds of years and now is not the time to look away. Sam Cook’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ means a lot to me, and I always read it…
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The History of Ulysses 31
Obviously given the channel ‘Toy Galaxy’ this history of my biggest love, Ulysses 31 is slanted towards toys, but there is background to how U31 started. I have never seen the pilot, that’s big news, and a few things I didn’t know. One big thing is that the US didn’t really get Ulysses 31 mania,…
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out – cut-ups
Cutting Up The Cut-Up is a great documentary from BBC Radio 4 featuring many artists featured regularly on Radio Clash over the years – Cassetteboy, Vicki People Like Us, DJ Food and Matt Black from Coldcut. Even a shout-out to Negativland! It goes way back into the roots of the audio cutup, to Brion Gysin,…