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I think I used to be confused. I had some things right but I wasn’t a fundamentalist. Now I am right all the time! It is easier this way. Ev...

I mentioned Krapp’s Last Tape before. I was never sure how to take the “hero”. Is he a comic or tragic figure? He is ridiculous as well...

The first time I read Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape I remember thinking that Krapp was old. Not just the version of Krapp who refle...

My brother told me about The Office on the same day as the attacks on the World Trade Centers in 2001. Of course, like everyone e...

You can never watch the same film twice. I have just watched Living in Oblivion again; twenty years after I first saw it. This is a film ab...

Ashes by Liz Quirke. This poem reminds me of a damp windy day down at the river near my Grandmother's home place in Mooncoin, Co Kilk...

This is a scary movie. Not because it's about stuff that couldn't really happen to you, but because it's about what it would be ...

Does giving things up require strength? Maybe for some people it does but for me, it’s all about habit. Habit does it all. Habit is s...

Human nature is more observed in the breach than in the observance. It has always been like this - it's unnatural for people to act or ...

“Words, words, words”  Sometimes I can’t see the wood for the trees. That idiom has always puzzled me. Does it mean that I can’t se...

Who's going to the sacrifice: The lamb of God or just more lambs? I went to mass last night. Well, kind of: Beethoven’s Missa Sol...

It Follows (2015) Dir David Robert Mitchell It Follows doesn’t look or sound like a horror movie. There’s no thunder and lightning, ver...

No More Heroes The more I think about it I have begun to see the men of the Travelling Community as Homeric warriors in a world long ab...

In Western oil painting, most nudes are female. And this fact is bound to another one; the implied viewer, or, really, voyeur , is male. The...

Within a Budding Grove Vol 2 of In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust Is life too quick? I don't mean, "Is life too brief?"...