my \’read\’ shelf: So I found this site that I am having a lot of fun with the widget for it being above this blurb — go check it out.
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I am what is called a meta-textual reader — I just read the book I am reading, I read every single thing that is associated with it and then continue outwards and ever outwards from there. So a fair while Read more…
So, today there was something a little different being offered in stead of the Freakangels webcomic which is on a one week hiatus. Today Warren Ellis offers us some thoughts on his preoccupations with disaster fiction and the very British Read more…
From the moment I saw that first advert for Dragon\’s Teeth, as this series was originally to be called I was hooked on the idea. Back when marvel actually had an interest in a unique British market Dragon\’s Claws was Read more…
So, the first two parts of this massive project I am undertaking is up for your enjoyment — I hope you\’ll all support me and leave me loads of comments to let me know what you think. I have something Read more…
Best known for creating the cover to The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper\’s Lonely Heart Club Band, Peter Blake is, for me at least, one of the most accessible of the pop artists. He is someone else I found through the Read more…
Jim Morrison is often dismissed as a poet — his lyrics are often ripped apart. Sometimes he was a dick, a drunken clown and a buffoon, sure, but that doesn\’t mean all his work was worthless. I owned Lords & Read more…
Of the people who went in and out of the doors of The Factory she stands out perhaps most of all. Why? Because she is the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Which bring me neatly to how I heard of Read more…
The film by Julian Schnabel delivered the tragic yet charming story of Basquiat to me before I found it, which I eventually would have through my exploration of Warhol and the world of The Factory. His art is unlike anything Read more…