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The Samosa Diaries: November 2008
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Sunday, 9 November 2008. A toot for me, a horn for you. After taking in the rain-soaked excitement of FA Cup First Round day up at Barnet, there was only one thing on my mind. Yep. A rail replacement bus took us down to Archway. The towering junction known for its Irish pubs and stumbling panhandlers. After a swift pint in the Red Lion, it was dinner time. Off we ventured down the hill to Sitara - the Indian Jazz Restaurant. Is this alright for you lads? Blue Note on the stereo, biriyani on my plate, and...
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The Samosa Diaries: The Old Man and the Sea
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010. The Old Man and the Sea. Two Brothers Fish Restaurant, Regent's Park Road, Finchley Central, London N3. Oh, help us out lads, an English comedian. what's his name. very funny. sweats a lot.' said the elderly gentleman. He needs it for a story.' said a second man in the queue, turning to us. Ohh not. Lee Evans? Yes that's his name! I used to work with his dad on the boats.'. See you later boys, enjoy yourselves! And he bopped out into the misty Saturday night. Subscribe to: Po...
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: November 2010
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Tuesday, 9 November 2010. I am currently revisiting Raymond Carney's. American vision: The films of Frank Capra. And in the chapter 'Frank Capra and American Romanticism', Carney offers a quotation from Emerson's 'The Divinity School Address' which I also feel compelled to reproduce:. Links to this post. Monday, 8 November 2010. I got to see. For the piece where praise multiplied by prestige of outlet is highest). In the case of. Has repeatedly been drawn in reviews, one ...
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: Archives, libraries, television and television studies
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Thursday, 22 December 2011. Archives, libraries, television and television studies. So I was sorting through and shelving those lovely old objects too. That have found their way into my office, at the same time that I simply enjoyed the weight of the objects, and holding these things that had been in the world longer than me in my hands, I absorbed material and made connections that I do not think I would have if I had been accessing Screen. S digital holdings would uncov...
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: Small, Striking Moments: The Corner and The Wire
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 15 August 2010. Small, Striking Moments: The Corner and The Wire. The HBO ‘miniseries’ The Corner. 2000) is now predominantly viewed and marketed as a warm-up or sketch for The Wire. 8217;), but he returns the greeting before it has even finished in a tone that ends the conversation, and moves past the frame without breaking his stride. Thus do we see figures variously frustrate the curiosity of the camera by doing nothing, turning around, and ploughing onwards.
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: November 2009
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 22 November 2009. Three pieces that have caught my eye lately. I'm still gearing up and gathering sources before I write a blog about some things that are currently going on in higher education, but this week two people independently drew my attention to this quite long but exceedingly eloquent article. Collini asks these questions and many more in an impassioned and engaging fashion. 2 Mobile phones in Iraq. A fascinating short article. About Alan McKee, a profes...
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: August 2010
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 15 August 2010. Small, Striking Moments: The Corner and The Wire. The HBO ‘miniseries’ The Corner. 2000) is now predominantly viewed and marketed as a warm-up or sketch for The Wire. 8217;), but he returns the greeting before it has even finished in a tone that ends the conversation, and moves past the frame without breaking his stride. Thus do we see figures variously frustrate the curiosity of the camera by doing nothing, turning around, and ploughing onwards.
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: April 2010
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Thursday, 29 April 2010. Stories and the internet. Mobile phone technology has affected dramaturgy. It is now less likely that someone who finds themself sharing their house with a killer will not be able to get to the phone. Surely they can just reach into their pocket? I used my mobile phone at work today to text my good friend James MacDowell. To pose an open, film-related question, as I often do. 'Can you think of instances where characters in fictions use interne...
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Between Sympathy and Detachment: The Weight of the Past
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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 5 December 2010. The Weight of the Past. This is a companion blog to my previous entry, which used 4'33". To think about what happens when the medium used to (re)produce music shifts. The current entry thinks about photography, with the help of a book and a television programme.). Nostalgia touches photographs in many ways. In her beautiful book On Photography. Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents’ pots an...
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The Samosa Diaries: May 2009
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Thursday, 7 May 2009. The last time I ate a Samosa I went insane. I was in Leeds on Sunday, mooching about, when I had a strange encounter. Strolling down the Brudenell Road with some friends, we heard faint rumblings of drumming coming from inside the beautiful old Hyde Park Picture House. Wondering what it could be, we poked our heads around the stage-left door and marvelled up at what we saw. Standing there on stage, holding a guitar, was non other than anti-folk hero Jeffrey Lewis. Internationally re...