You could maybe say that it was the kid\’s version of Twin Peaks but that wouldn\’t really be true; it wasn\’t that serious. Maybe it had something of Northern Exposure about it. Or you could just drop the comparisons and Read more…
Author: skullcull
Whilst I was traveling around the US I stayed in Ohio, and while I was in Youngstown, Ohio I went to the Butler Institute for art. One of the exhibitions that I went to when we were walking around the Read more…
This story gets better and better — the characters already seem to possess so much soul. I remember how by the end of Transmetropolitan, or rather from the beginning, you felt Spider\’s reality: it is the same here. Thus far Read more…
As with a lot of the works by Herman Hesse this book is not large in regards to the number of pages but the largeness of the spirit contained within is immeasurable. Sometimes you read a book and you feel Read more…
You find the beats, you find Fante, you\’re gonna find Bukowski. As a writer how can you not be drawn to him? It is arguable that he is one of the most influential out of any of that type of Read more…
I think I discovered Motherlovebone just after Andrew Wood had died. I came across them at the same time as I started getting into Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney. It was the nineties anyway, I know that much. I\’m Read more…
I grew up watching Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin and I still think they stand up as comic geniuses. I love watching Laurel and Hardy. I have to admit that the 3 Stooges weren\’t something I saw much of. I Read more…
My friend seemed to have almost the entire Herman Hesse library and I borrowed and read a fair proportion of it. This was the largest of all those books; Steppenwolf, The Prodigy and Klingsor\’s Last Summer being fairly slim volumes. Read more…
I used to swap mixtapes with people — or sometimes I would give them a tape with two different albums — one each side; back before CD\’s led to bloated epics that laughed at the idea of being 45 minutes Read more…
Key Bollards, originally uploaded by aperte. Some very cool pictures from this user. This one caught my eye and I wanted to share it an test out the flickr post to blog version. Very cool.