Finally took the brutalist architecture pilgrimage to the Barbican Estate in London. A wonderfully serene place, a lost dream of what a community could be, what with its high walkways, no cars, its social housing next to fancy apartments, its conservatories, parks and museums. It’s like something from Next Generation but built out of a […]
Read more "Wandering The Barbican"It’s been an ugly time across the pond these last 24 hours so I made a list of things I like about Americans and America. Just a few thoughts that popped in my head. You’re Welcome. Americans will say ‘you’re welcome’ after you say thank you to them. Every time. I imagine they’re raised to […]
Read more "Six Things I Like About Americans"Lewis Saunderson is a new kind of actor. We’ve never seen his like before, not really. In all his TIkTok videos, and now Youtube videos, he creates scenes of utmost emotional torment, his eyes red and weeping and his face a rictus or misery and shock. In this vid below, a man has broken his […]
Read more "Lewis Saunderson, Actor For Our Times"Facebook saw that post I did about David Cronenberg’s Crash on here and it’s invited me to ‘create an event’. The mind boggles…
Read more "Crashed The Invite"‘Crash’ is quite a different movie in 2024. I hadn’t expected that when I sat down to watch it again. Like the ‘unfilmable’ book it’s based on, David Cronenberg’s movie caused outrage from both the political right and left. I always think art has hit pay dirt whenever that happens, drilled down to something deep. […]
Read more "What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)"‘She understood me and I her’ my mum texted me after her oldest pal passed away recently and that line really hit me. I brace myself for losing old friends because it would be less like losing a limb and more an entire wing of your mental library. All those jokes and memories and references […]
Read more "Friends. To The End."Back in the eighties me and my brother awoke to a hurricane that had hit Britain. We’d never seen the like and, this being the eighties, we just assumed nuclear war was occurring. I was terrified and then I was weirdly elated. I realised I had survived the nuclear exchange and now I would grow […]
Read more "Not All Kids Want to Grow Up To Be Astronauts"Currently owned by Edward Norton, the Stevens House (1968) began as an impossible demand: a five bedroom luxury house on a 90’ by 30’ plot with no solid walls on two sides so that the ocean and mountains could be viewed. Six architects turned it down and then John Lautner- to whom crazy challenges were […]
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J.L. Worrad 