Album Digest, October 2013
Four great albums this month for the last album digest in a while.
#Thirteen
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The Only Chocolate Cake Recipe You’ll Ever Need
As I mentioned in a previous post, I baked a chocolate cake the other day and it was a great success. Here is the recipe, which is a trivial …
LS Lowry At Tate Britain
I have mixed feelings about this show. On the one hand, I like that there are depictions of working class Britain on display and I feel that …
The Reset Button
Art Under Attack at Tate Britain
Today I went with a friend to see Tate Britain’s “Art Under Attack” show. It’s an interesting, if uneven, affair …
J. G. Ballard, High-Rise
After a few false starts I managed to finish “High-Rise”, the next in my collection of JG Ballard novels. For a book that I had …
Album Digest, September 2013
A nice diverse selection of albums this month:
Understated Classics #25: Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans
The single biggest fact of life is that you are always going to be alone, you just might not realise it. Listening to The Cardigans’ …
Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern
Ellen Gallagher is an American artist and her “AxME” show recently finished at the Tate Modern. I went along a few weeks ago and …
Album Digest, August 2013
For reasons that will become apparent, there will be a short period soon where I will not be writing album digests. Until then, I’m …
The Truth About Work
Posters
In 2005, towards the end of the second year of my PhD I presented a poster at a conference in Dresden, Germany. My eccentric colleagues and …