Meera Syal appeared in a short play on BBC Radio 4 recently. Syal, a versatile actor and writer of Indian extraction, was playing a (presumably white) police liason officer called Jackie Hartwell in this mini-drama. She did a great job as usual, her ethnic background was neither here nor there. It made me wonder; areContinue reading “Black and White Lines”
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My Ten Best Points…
Cultural end-of-year lists are so fucking smug. They’ve already started appearing, and I’m having to avoid the Sunday papers where cultural hacks declare which books, films and albums were the most essential. What a lot of great shit I’ve missed (as usual). There’s nothing wrong in theory with writers looking back at their personal highlights,Continue reading “My Ten Best Points…”
Good Movies, New Friends…
One way of sharing your love of film is with a cinema collective. I’ve recently joined one with friends, which has around 200 members and organises via facebook. Here’s how it works: Every week or so, someone hosts a screening in their home, using a shared projector wired up to a laptop or DVD player.Continue reading “Good Movies, New Friends…”
Dreamcatcher news
Since June this year I’ve added a new identity to my several selves. I am the Dreamcatcher; collector of stories from the subconscious. Practically speaking, this means I go up to people and ask them about dreams they’ve had. It’s a strange activity to undertake and I encounter as many misses as hits; but withContinue reading “Dreamcatcher news”
Dreamcatching
Yesterday I met someone in the Egg cafe to talk about my Dreamcatcher project. This is a series of interviews with folks about interesting, bizarre or memorable dreams they’ve had. I’m editing them into little films for the internet, with some of the dreams being visualised with dream sequences (obviously, the relatively low-budget dreams willContinue reading “Dreamcatching”
Tom George 