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I’m old enough to face the dawn

When are you an adult? Old enough to face the world? I have to admit that when I was young I expected at some stage there to come a revelation and that I would be able to handle things, that I would be an adult and sound profound mystery of the world would be unlockedContinue reading “I’m old enough to face the dawn”

I’m number one so why try harder?

These Academy Award commentaries are the least popular things on the blog, but I want to do them anyway. The 1990s were a good decade for the Academy Awards. It starts with a win for Dances with Wolves which is worthy but quite dull. Ghost is far better remembered but Goodfellas is probably the oneContinue reading “I’m number one so why try harder?”

And we can’t build our dreams

Mike lived in Leicester for quite a while. The first time we went up to see him he was living on his own and I rifled his CD collection and found one that surprised me – an Elvis Presley compilation. Now I knew that he was hugely important in the history of popular music, butContinue reading “And we can’t build our dreams”

As a white knight on his steed

Doctor Who was born in the 1960s and, as fans know, the first episode clashed with the assassination of John Kennedy. Fortunately they repeated it before episode 2 the following week. (The original cast – Carol Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell and William Hartnell) It was not expected to last long and the factContinue reading “As a white knight on his steed”

You fall to dust

The Psychedelic Furs are most famous for Pretty in Pink, a big hit after the film of the same name was released in 1986. Yet the film is an anodyne story about high school love between Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy (two of the 80s Brat Pack) and the song that inspired it is nothingContinue reading “You fall to dust”

Let your soul and your body and your mind be free

When I got into dance music I really liked the Shamen. Their story is quite sad as they recorded En-Tact and when they went to Tenerife to make a video for Move Any Mountain Colin Angus drowned in the ocean. The song Omega Amigo looks eerily prescient and the song Space Time off Boss DrumContinue reading “Let your soul and your body and your mind be free”

Remember when

I sometimes wonder if I would have been better off being born twenty years earlier or twenty years later. I hope, despite being 54, that I am still staying abreast of modern technology. I hope that I keep doing that and do not succumb to the seeming inevitability of older people of saying it wasContinue reading “Remember when”

Don’t Be Too Long

I wrote some time ago about one international cricket dynasty (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/26/im-so-tired-of-trying/ ), they were succeeded by an Australian dynasty. In fact Australia being the best team in the world is the default position for world cricket, but being young in the 70s and 80s it seems odd for the West Indies not to be theContinue reading “Don’t Be Too Long”

People in Motion

Serial killers seem to exert a massive hold on the collective consciousness in the modern world. I think my first encounter with the concept was when I read the second volume of Sandman – The Doll’s House. After this there was The Silence of the Lambs (SOTL) and now there are films, TV series andContinue reading “People in Motion”

System Activated

One evening in the early 90s I sat down and read the three Miracleman graphic novels in one go – these were the ones published by Eclipse Comics that went out of print for two decades. This was Alan Moore’s other lost comic strip from Warrior, the first one being V For Vendetta (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/06/brain-and-body-melting/ )Continue reading “System Activated”