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I WANT TO BE A GANGSTER IN YOUR TOWN

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Totally rightly BROADWALK EMPIRE won Best Television Series / Drama at the Golden Globes. The pilot was directed by Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi is most brilliant and I’m happy to finally see The Wire’s Omar again in a worthy role – it’s a delight.

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ANGRY BOYS

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Chris Lilley will make his long-awaited return to television in 2011 with a new ABC comedy titled Angry Boys. After a short break over Christmas, Chris Lilley, the creative genius behind We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High is back filming his new 12-part series, Angry Boys – and here’s what he had to say:
“We’ve been [...]

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INSIDE THE HEAD-CRATE

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

McSweeney’s Issue 36 is out and I’m the proud owner of a 275-cubic-inch full-color head-crate that comes with eight booklets and lots of little bits and pieces with new incredible stories. I’m especially excited to find out about Tim Heidecker’s (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) contribution. Another great package from the US [...]

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CAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Monday, December 20, 2010

Apparently the world is not quite ready for silence yet: picking up from a failed attempt earlier this year by the British Legion to push 2 minutes of silence to the top of the British charts, the Facebook initiative Cage against the Machine gathered more than 92,000 supporters for a new recording of John Cage’s [...]

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A GUIDING LIGHT

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Tonight at 10:00 pm is the Berlin premiere of A Guiding Light, a short film by artists Liam Gillick and Anton Vidokle at Babylon cinema.For A Guiding Light, Gillick and Vidokle invited artists Boško Blagojevi?, Noah Brehmer, Nadja Frank, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, and Danna Vajda, critic Tim Griffin, and curators Anna Colin, and Shama [...]

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IMPENDING DOOM

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

After the recent fad of apocalyptic films, television and video games such as The Road, Fallout New Vegas, the so-so Book of Eli, and the excellent new AMC series The Walking Dead, had all had effects on my psychological wellbeing and possibly making me believe that the end of the world is imminent. As always [...]

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AWESOME SHOW, GREAT JOB!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Always worth checking what Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric are up to. Best known for their hilarious television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, they’re doing live shows in the USA at the moment and there’s lots of their stuff on the internet.

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A CANNON AND A CONCHORD

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

If you happen to be in Edinburgh, try to get tickets for Arj Barker’s show, better known as Dave from Flight of the Conchords.

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WELCOME LAWBREAKERS!

Friday, July 30, 2010

DUI? Dealing Drugs? Manufacturing Crystal Meth? Better Call Saul!

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Literal Videos

Thursday, July 29, 2010

For fans of music television: there are many, many more.

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