God’s Lonely Men

Travis Bickle of TAXI DRIVER, a ticking time bomb. So, I have become slightly immersed in an Internet phenomenon concerned with ''literally me'' characters, or ''sigma'' males, an androcentric subculture focused on lonely, unstable, psychopathic men in cinema and television. The main cinematic touchstones are Taxi Driver, Fight Club, American Psycho, Drive, Nightcrawler, Blade Runner …

Jean-Luc Godard, 1930 — 2022

The late French filmmaker perusing a copy of Marvin E. Gettleman's VIETNAM, HISTORY, DOCUMENTS, AND OPINIONS ON A MAJOR WORLD CRISIS (1966) I, regrettably, have only seen a handful of Jean-Luc Godard's films, but I have always respected his place in cinema; although, one of his later films was terrible enough to make it onto …

Harold Budd, 1936 – 2020

R.I.P. to Harold Budd. ''Ambient'' was a meaningless word for him. https://youtu.be/eaf08gtiitU

The World Famous Clown Motel

The World Famous Clown Motel of Nevada, U.S.A.. I have just discovered that there is a Clown Motel, a clown motel that exists. The World Famous Clown Motel is located in Tonopah, Nevada, situated next to a disused miners' cemetery, in a remote town that often serves as a resting stop for bikers and truckers, …

A wretched wee update

Wide awake, now. . .   Well, a great deal has certainly occurred in the past five or six months. We, as a modern society, have faced contagious diseases before, yet nothing of this magnitude has been seen before.The lockdown has been an unusual thing for me; as an introvert, I am accustomed to staying indoors …

The Macabre Art of Alison Mackenzie

Untitled.  Alison Mackenzie is an Inverness-based artist and illustrator whose main work is, I think, commissions for local theatre; but she has chosen to work in a florid, Gothic, grotesque style, inspired primarily by Guillermo del Toro, that connoisseurs of the macabre and wyrd should find much to savour in. With work partaking on Kafka …

Terry Jones, 1942 — 2020

Find the fish.  R.I.P. Terry Jones, Monty Python man and comedic polymath. Mr. Creosote, Brian's mother, and child-ridden housewife, his roles were often unforgettable. Terry Jones and Angela Carter discussing THE BLOODY CHAMBER in BBC's PAPERBACKS, 1981. 

Jonathan Miller, 1934 – 2019

Sir Michael Hordern is watched by a phantom on a lonely Suffolk beach after his theft in WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU.    The English Renaissance man, Jonathan Miller, whose talents extended to opera, theatre, television, literature, humour, and medicine, has died today. Though his projects were many, many of us will always remember …

The Art of Robert Powell

Another Scots artist who rejects naturalism in favour of an aesthetic dedicated to the imaginative, strange, and unique, Robert Powell is an Edinburgh artist whose art is ''interested in encyclopaedic and organisational forms, in representations of reality whose straining after universality is constantly subverted as they are enmeshed in a web of cultural and personal …

The Art of Cathy Rose

Untitled. Perhaps I will call it TRAPPED, or ENTRAPMENT?    I am not in the habit of visiting Pinterest very often, but, sometimes, in that vast cybernetic labyrinth, one comes across something very interesting. In a gallery of images inspired by the Brothers Quay, I came across one Cathy Rose. Cathy Rose is an American …