culture consumption: february 2018;
Hey, so February was a bit of a bust on the ol’ blog front, wasn’t it? It’s funny, but for all my talk about obtaining a better work-life balance and falling back in love with…
View PostHey, so February was a bit of a bust on the ol’ blog front, wasn’t it? It’s funny, but for all my talk about obtaining a better work-life balance and falling back in love with…
View PostSo, after getting all smug about nailing my Goodreads reading challenge for the year (because, apparently, I now live a lifestyle where 30 books in a year genuinely is a challenge), this month my reading…
View PostI cannot over-state how excited I am to have spent a weekend in my own bed, with no deadlines and nowhere to be, free to have as many and as long lie-ins as I like.…
View PostWhen I hit 5,000 followers on Twitter in July, I was able to cross off almost all of my goals for the year. All except one. Which just happens to be the one I was…
View PostThe best reason not to make New Year’s resolutions? Everybody breaks them anyway. And April was the month in which I broke a quiet promise to myself, that I made at the start of the…
View PostI apologise in advance for this month’s post being heavy on the films and light on the books. For both of these things, I blame Emirates: it’s a consequence of the breadth of their in-flight…
View PostFebruary has been a pretty decent month for me on the ol’ arts front. I broke my gigging duck for the year (48 days in – a new record), saw a whole THREE films at…
View PostThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. Pulling together a music documentary strikes me as a simple enough concept. Gather your talking heads in front of a nice enough backdrop, splice with archive footage…
View PostThis review first appeared on The Arts Desk. If the subtitle – The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel – didn’t make it clear enough, Hit So Hard was never going to be…
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