Really, how long does it take to hammer out a little review? Four minutes? Hahahaha; a private joke, because in the great catch-up effort, the movie in question is Four Minutes. This has everything. The artist as savage beast. Music as savage breast soother. Art as redemption. Sex. Violence. Lesbi...

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I subscribe to three NPR podcasts; Popular Culture, Music, and Science and Medicine. It’s more than I can actually keep up with, because they are generally so interesting that I can’t simply leave them on in the background, as I generally could with Radio 4. So I have to actually listen. Sometimes...

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... as an explanation. This blog has been getting an awful lot of neglect really. It isn’t the first time, and it is often at around this time of year. And the same excuses that applied back then still apply, somewhat.

Somewhere, irrationally, I really do believe that I have only a certain numbe...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 87.9 This week: 88.3
Tuesday 19 June: Can it really be 50 weeks since I started this in earnest? Yes, it can. And I’ve been thinking a bit about why I seem to have plateaued, big-time. The simple answer is that I’m not far off where I want to be. No motivation. So the morni...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.1 This week: 88.0
Tuesday 5 June: A weekend away in the Big Wen, and no gains to show for it. No oil either. That’s kinda pleasing, inasmuch as it suggests that I have an element of control myself even when I don’t have any oil to back me up.