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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What I Hate about Sequels
I write this as I emerge from a bout of flu that has kept me horizontal for a week. This attack has been milder than last year’s instalment – no projectile vomiting or fainting on the bog this time – and I suppose from a dramatic perspective you could say it’s been a bit of a disappointment.Continue reading “What I Hate about Sequels”
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…”
Season of Sweat
Today the temperature has hit 29 degrees (that’s centigrade, my American friends) which is pretty ferocious anywhere in the UK but particularly so in a Northern town like Liverpool. Sitting here without a shirt and sticking to the back of my vinyl chair, I have little energy to do anything more than muse upon thatContinue reading “Season of Sweat”
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…”
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 