If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I was all excited about going to Tina Turner’s concert at MEN Arena on Friday, 3rd of April 2009 (as were a few of my colleagues and fellow Twe...
I am sure all of us have been missing dearly the Polnareffienne’s additions… well, no more now! In fact, we should be grateful to a friend of mine who sent me an email about Sweet Transves...
There is something good about Google’s contextual advertising that we get in our Gmails. Had it not been for a Google ad, I’d not have learnt that a popular 1960s Northern Soul band The Fl...
Birmingham – Christmas Safari, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. This article is primarily about the 1950 MGM adaptation of Rider Haggard’s novel. For the news about the discover...
A rather unpleasant update as per 13 Dec 2008: I have just found out that the English version of the video which was in this post has been taken down on YouTube for “the violation of Community G...
Birmingham – The Bull in the Bull Ring, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Liverpool has been the European capital of culture in 2008. But astrologically, the year 2008 was the year o...
We’ve had it all: Slavoj Zizek’s live talk during his “tour of the North”, the audio extracts I used in my account of the lecture, there were materials at the Subaltern Studies...
Between the hands, between the brows,Between the lips of Love-Lily,A spirit is born whose birth endowsMy blood with fire to burn through me;Who breathes upon my gazing eyes,Who laughs and murmurs in m...
It was a sudden inspiration as I was looking through some pictures, choosing which one of them to upload to the post. I ended up writing and narrating a story for a short video clip, which you can see...
Some of you may instantly guess to which two French songs alludes the title of this post. These are Les Feuilles Mortes by Jacques Prevert and Joseph Kosma and La Chanson de Prevert by Serge Gainsbour...