Do you know how helpless you feel when you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? (Jean Kerr) Do you know how it feels when you sneeze and your specs almost drop right down fr...
On December 28, 1895, at the Grand Cafe on Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, the Lumière brothers screened their first film. Since then, cinema has entered our everyday life. Today different directors...
History progresses at the speed of its weapons systems (Paul Virilio). Thanks for reading and visiting! You can connect with me on Google+ @ https://plus.google.com/108262661313082363581/posts/. Julia...
Frankly, any time of the day will do, for as long as I don’t see it raining again. This is what it looked like in the Lake District another day. I would happily go to the Lake District, had I no...
This is the title of the first chapter of Umberto Eco’s Mouse or Rat: Translation as Negotiation (L.: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2003). The plants (or factories) in question are, in fact, the wor...
The story of my discovering Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; notes on literary and historical aspects of the works....
This picture contains all objects I associate not only with winter festive season, but with cosy living in general. Many years ago in one Russian book I saw a picture of a Scot, wearing a kilt and sto...
This is an extract from the film Grand Hotel Excelsior, starring Adriano Celentano as the hotel manager. I thought it would raise our spirits amidst cooking turkeys. I also thought it could provide so...
So, I was writing that daunting text about Sikh martyrs. Until then I hardly ever realised how difficult it is to write about something, on which you only hold *second-hand* information. Since I canno...
I noticed a lot of Futuresonic-minded people at Simple Bar in late July, where Lee Gosnay & Co presented the performance that earned them a place in the coveted EVNTS section of Futuresonic 2006. ...