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Generic Mugwump: December 2005

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Friday, December 30, 2005. Michael E. Thomas - Live Review. It was 10pm when we staggered in through the doors of Bar 7 in Portstewart, already drunkened after a few hours of Seagal and Van Damme flicks (oh the cheese). Upon getting the requisite drinks we glanced around the venue for some seatery, and what luck! Two seats right in front of the man we have come here to worship, Michael E. Thomas. Maybe it’s just because I hadn’t seen him in so long, but I don’t think he’s ever been better. Let’s be h...

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Generic Mugwump: October 2005

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Sunday, October 30, 2005. The Tesco Scribe Phenomenon. Despite being less than 100 pages long per issue,. Has become known as a prolific breeding ground for some of the world’s greatest authors. We will celebrate the history of this zeitgeist by a retrospective on some of those very authors, their time at the magazine, and what they did afterward. Following his time at Tesco, Tolstoy wrote something called War and Peace. Paradise here standing as Tesco). Glamorising it with the repeated use of the word ‘...

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Generic Mugwump: June 2006

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Monday, June 19, 2006. You block out the dreadful execution and move forward another few paces. Here another vision. This time the stumpy legs of Bob Hoskins blur into the reptilian features of Blue Velvet. You awaken to the whispery invocations of the Double Dragon. Movie It sits opposite you, legs crossed like a parody of a rutted sitcom actor playing a cub-scout in a made-for-TV Disney movie. You dish out a verbal application form, something that goes a little like this, Who the fuck are you? Based on...

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Generic Mugwump: May 2006

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006. Jeff Fahey: A Prospective Glance. It was while walking downtown yesterday, adjacent to the ambulations of a medium-sized man who moved with the lanky posture of a much taller man, he should have been born six foot nine instead of five foot nine, and whilst a girl in a yellow mohair anorak walked past me mispronouncing ‘bourgeois,’ that I thought, I wonder what Jeff Fahey is doing right now? Firstly there’s Split Second. Compare with Sketch Artist 2: Hands That See. As the snowy wea...

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Generic Mugwump: March 2006

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Saturday, March 25, 2006. The Hot Topic and Update. The Hot Topic makes a welcome return this week as the Mondo people (yes, now complete with female input) discuss gender and film taste (don’t worry, not one person started talking about Lacanian psychoanalysis or any of that). You can visit and be enthralled here. In the meantime I hear the John Matrix Blues Quintet have a new song by the name of Shoelace Metal Symphony, which can be listened to here. Posted by Aaron Fleming at 23:59. Man Without A Star.

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Generic Mugwump: January 2006

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Friday, January 27, 2006. Recently I’ve moved off into the realm of the musicological, thus explaining the lack of updates on here in the past week or so, I’ve had to shirk my writing responsibilities (and plenty others) to experiment with the wonderful world of the riff. And so what has come of it are two musical projects worthy of a few introductory and promotional words (links and so on will follow at the end). Themed ‘Remember Arnie Cash and Carry’. The other project is a collaboration with The Duke.

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Generic Mugwump: November 2005

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Monday, November 28, 2005. The Fly (1986) 2-Disc Special Edition DVD. The start of October brought that which I and my fellow Fly fans yearned for over many long restless nights, a special edition DVD of David Cronenberg’s classic, The Fly. There’s elements of comedy in there too, Cronenberg’s typically dark humour comes through a number of times, such as: Is this real, or is it Memorex? Or Brundle’s gawky attempts to pursue Veronica. Although Videodrome. And what of the horror then? Although it’s no whe...

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Generic Mugwump: February 2006

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Saturday, February 25, 2006. One false word, one sneering countenance, one wind passed wrongly, is all that it will take to prompt those masses to advance straight into the atomising gulf laid out in front of them. It’s a dangerous time, who knows what will occur on the scarred earth where they are situated. The battle lines were drawn when 20th Century Fox (yes Murdoch’s own pet mammal) announced it was to remake that most chilling of Satan-themed horrors, Richard Donner’s The Omen. Will we get Lindsey ...

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Generic Mugwump: April 2006

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Thursday, April 27, 2006. A Systematic Comparison of Dream Theater's When Dream and Day Unite and When Dream and Day Reunite (or A Critique of the Mouldy Pathways of Knowledge). A spellbinding trip through exhilarating awe! I’ve just messed myself! Albums coming out with one large blurb covering the entire bulk of mass production; only from space can it be seen that Amis found it banal and brilliant at the same time, or that The Sun gave a super-dooper to Mekong Delta’s second album. Good luck to that po...