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Sex, music, racism, inequality etc. – so beautiful, so absurd. Mike Hampton has something to say about it. Maybe the odd diary entry too…

Video: The Clock at the Back of the Cage

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Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel’s I Can Spin a Rainbow album is the opposite of taking LSD in outerspace. It’s dreamy but it isn’t dream pop. It’s magical but there’s no unicorns. It’s a ghost addressing hard reality. It’s eerie and full of loss looking at love. It’s indescribable by me but that’s ok ’cause the haunting stop motion video for the song ‘The Clock at the Back of the Cage’ will do it for me. It’ll speak to you in profound ways if you play it fullscreen and listen … Read the full article…

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Counting Crows – Films About Ghosts (Review)

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“Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book.” I can’t hear the Counting Crows without having my mind drift back to a period of young love. It was time of good waves and beaches, great but awkward sex, and, inevitably, dreams bursting from the weight of unrealistic hope. For an entire two years, my lover’s favourite song was ‘Mr. Jones’. She never got tired of it and I never tired of watching her dance to it. When she was gone, I would sometimes torture myself … Read the full article…

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Sex, Miley Cyrus, Amanda Palmer & Me

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Let’s talk about sex and women’s liberation. Sex is undeniably part of because we’re human… and half of us, as a result of unplanned sex but well-planned biology, are girls. If you haven’t seen it yet, join the hundreds of millions who loved watching Miley Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’ video. If you’re unlike them, and vomit tickles your tongue, you still have to watch it because it’s one reason for much to come: The world’s gotten far too serious with itself (and sensitive to itself) which sometimes makes me aim for … Read the full article…

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Goodbye, Sylvia Kristel…Thanks for the Show

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“I was a silent actress, a body. I belonged to dreams, those dreams you can’t ruin.” Sylvia Kristel, soft porn legend, died on the 12th of October 2012 – she was age 60. She was most famous for her role in the Emmanuelle movies…and for being an exciter of my young lust. During the apartheid era in South Africa, we didn’t just live apart from other races but us English were, to a fair degree, separated from the Afrikaners (who ran the country). The Afrikaans nation was strongly religious and … Read the full article…

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Our Cannibal Reality

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It disturbs me that there are witchdoctors in my South Africa who sell body parts, babies, children and and female virgins most prized.   “Acceptance” may seem too strong a word but our inaction amounts to the same nothing. Most of us try and shut it out, somehow able to enjoy Hollywood horrors yet emotionally distant to the constant dangers at home.   There’s depravity in Africa, an acceptance of violence that is either disturbingly unnatural or proof of the animals we humans are… but us Africans are not alone. … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!