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It was a protector. Women and poetry. Like wine, they can be an enchanting flow of colour, flavour and texture. Beer, it seems, is a far more suitable option It would be so much easier. W y thought of as being unintelligent, brutish ot a spirit lifting offering from a friend , poetry has always tended to leave a lingering bitter taste in my mouth.

We turned to the likes of Kurt Cobain or Michael Stipe for our rhythm and rhyme. I stood outside Green Hill Primary School, trying to retain my balance and relight my cigarette at the same time. A challenging feat, given the state of my condition. The old building. I had half an idea to climb over the black gate in front of me and have a closer look.

Maybe see if there was a way in. But the idea quickly passed by. What was the point? It is of great mystery to me that there is anybody at all who can reflect fondly on their time at school. Personally, I hated it. I hated sitting i n. But the exams were on set topics and so those topics must be taught I always thought it would have been nice to have a class of just daydreaming.

A class to think for yourself for a while. The most interesting of people, I think, did that regardless. Albert Camus is one of those writers that I always wanted. A literary figure that I must pay a particular attention to in order to grow and.

Of The Flies for an entire year and subsequently became sick and completely discouraged from the pleasure of the written word. I started with The Plague. Catchy title. Not too long. A perfect way to ease myself into the mind of a genius. To date I have read The Plague and The Plague. I have since forgiven myself convinced that I have upgraded this temporary accommodation from forgettable shack to warm memory by giving the false impression of intent to encourage the reading of fine literature.

Though there are a great many other things to do in Rome other than reading and I recommend that you visit at least twice during your lifetime. And there it is. My home. I fumble for my keys as soon as I lock onto it, anticipating a struggle. Scientists Set to Manufacture Pop Shocking evidence has been uncovered detailing scientists plans to manufacture pop. Leading scientists in Iceland have been collecting the DNA of famous pop starlets in order to genetically create the ultimate pop.

Controversial whistleblowing website Wikileaks has sensationally revealed that US government officials have for many years been involved in secret BLANK. Owen Williams.

Go on, take it easy. I want to buy a. One was immortal, the other not. When the mortal brother died, the immortal asked Zeus to let him share the fate of his brother.

They both flew up into the sky and Capricorn formed; Gemini. Having a hard time? Feel elated with this little factoid: Max Payne 3 comes out in June. Ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh I came home recently to find my parents letting my baby brother chew on my new rather expensive shoes.

Do you know anyone who either assassinate families or makes locking shoe cupboards? Perhaps I am over-reacting but I can no longer look at any one them without a fiery rage building inside me. An idiot? You want to get a flamingo for your girlfriend? As in one of those large, pink birds that stand on one foot in marshland? Having to pay council tax? Welcome to the real word bitches. Where is the best place to get a flamingo?

Or should I try and paint a heron pink? In the future, I wonder if people will lovingly restore websites in the same way my dad restores VWs. Everyone thinks their opinion matters. Well, there are plenty of statues to the heroes of the age - Adam Smith, David Hume or the bard himself Robert Burns but what about anti-heroes?

Stevenson was among the first to pen the dark side of Edinburgh and film makers have latterly taken an interest. I myself found it fantastic that anyone, let alone Hollywood, would delve into Scottish history for inspiration, especially as secondary education in this country seems to avoid it like Rob Roy McGregor would a redcoat. It could be said of almost anywhere that local heroes are celebrated and commemorated, whether it be in stone, in mural form, in writing, even film.

There were notably good efforts however, from Bill Bailey, who pops up almost like Frankie Howard giving us the prologue in Up Pompeii and Tom Wilkinson. The Grass Market, scene of public executions from the earliest of times, is where the film begins and ends and not surprisingly is home to some of the more grizzly named hostelries of the city. The Last Drop may sound like a weary tipplers last attempt on his glass but is in reality as much a reference to the last ever usage of the scaffold.

The White Hart Inn is the oldest pub in central Edinburgh and reputedly a hive of spectres, dating from the. Robert Burns is reputed to have stayed there, no doubt songs would have been riotously sung back then and the tradition carries on as in many other pubs around the old town. A live act in the White Hart and elsewhere is Graeme E Pearson who plays solo and with his band The Mutineers high tempo and fun renditions of traditional Scottish songs with more than a sprinkling of audience interaction.

Small sessions of an extremely high standard take place, so much so that the Royal Oak CD is sold in the. The humour is dark but tongue-in-cheek and the film overall will not fail to woo more visitors to the city. Half-hanged Maggie was a Musselburgh fishwife who had been convicted of.

History is patchy on the length of time spent at cups, but it was long enough for Maggie to fully assume mortality, which must have been an eye opener to the revellers within, who subsequently fled the scene. Maggie then spent the rest of the day propping up the bar and was able to live out her remaining years unhindered by the law. The Sheep Heid is the oldest established inn within the city, although Duddingston was then a rural village with its own cottage weaving industry.

Duddingston also lays claim to two famous ministers. The tower by the loch which the society used for their curling stones was on two levels and the top floor belonged to the other minister, the Reverend Thompson, clergyman and landscape painted extraordinaire who used it as his studio. His talents were well respected by the leading figures of the enlightenment, such as Sir Walter Scott and Alexander Naysmith, who often came to visit.

Thompson lived around the time of Burke and Hare and another tower - a watchtower within the grounds of the kirkyard - like so many others around the city, stands as a testimony to the nocturnal activities of our two anti-heroes so humorously portrayed in the movie, and in a roundabout way Edinburgh has remembered them in stone but, like Edinburgh itself, there are two sides to the memory.

Just a few years ago, a young family were having a meal in the bar area. The daughter, who was around nine-years-old, began to have a conversation with an empty chair to the right of the horseshoe style bar. Yet the pressures on musicians and songwriters to keep things simple are obvious. As record sales shrivel. Anything that can be reconfigured for advertising is an advantage and willing for your art to become as commercial as cola is a must.

To paint a picture for those reading from the shore, our digital age is currently surfing on some tough economic waves. Consciously or not, through such times, we require certain criteria to be met in our music. History tells us, from depression era swing jazz to seventies disco, that the masses require. So where are our generations Bee-Gees and Benny Goodmans? Yet this is far from Tin Pan Alley. Inevitably, such composure by committee leads to homogenisation and moreover,.

The essence of pop is to be devastatingly concise. To encapsulate a gesture, feeling or idea in a short collection of verses or rap stanzas and to amalgamate them with melodies into music that compliments the notions of the words, in hope that they stick to memory — well, this is the brilliance, hardship and trademark of any good pop songwriter.

And yes, maybe this stands as the neo-equivalent of dust bowl refugees, left directionless without homes, yet subjected to songs about high-flying society cocktail parties. Harvests of indiscernible tracks seem to crop up constantly: genetically or digitally modified. As pop turns from its traditions, now more than ever, there is a growing art form of following formulae: a certain guaranteed method for creating something popular.

Take, for example, the professional jazz pianist Fred Hersch. Thus, he sits on stage ready to perform as he has spent countless hours honing and practising his skills on that particular instrument. Having being influenced by other great musicians,. Or think of the metamorphic blues movements of the Led.

Through interaction between players the band were able to be unique in their composition. Not just through their own. They can choose to record their parts ten different ways just to get it just as they want it, just as they can choose a flawed recording to go in an album because it encapsulated the right feeling.

Either way, the choice is theirs to make. Yet these elements are completely missing in modern pop, with composition by committee becoming colder and further segregated. With singers being auto-tuned and instruments being digitised, no practise is required and no level of musicianship can.

Even modern lyrics seem to omit reality and ever more so lack this human element. Our delineated realms of hit-pop is often caught employing some mechanism from music, such as a chord progression or melody.

This they remix, repackage, synthesise and condense to finally churn it out in to the chart. Well, it seems that artists can endorse fashionable returns to past genres, by doing them very well. Resultantly, those sparks of inspiration and revelation, those truly great ideas that come to true originators and innovators of art, are being sidelined for more time and cost-effective procedures.

Amy Winehouse, for example, completely reinvigorated a cabaret style of old with debut albums, opening the door to a multitude of up-and-coming female singers. Recent popular song has shown us it can turn to old genres for new waves of inspiration, but what of the pop music forms of the future? The trajectory of pop perhaps is not as progressive as we would like it to be. For pop is not required to turn to the past.

Although it always has, to celebrate it traditions, it is not as necessary in diversifying the evolution of music. Or, how silence can be elaborated for our listening pleasure. Most advances are being made on a technological level - where everything can be shared and where possibilities are limitless. This seemingly paradoxical stage in the pop music is troubling, as to some it may appear there is a stand still in progressing and pushing forward to the soundscapes of our era.

Modernity appears caught in suspended animation, leading many to advocate that nothing seems new, but instead simply re-formulated. As we begin to live digitally, so do musical communities. Being illustrated is the polarity between old and new methods, but how do they merge and disparage? We have a tradition of popular songwriting going through a transition into the digital age. Organic methods are gradually becoming synthetic, to the extent where the actual commodity of music is becoming intangible.

Slipping away are the traditions of culture of going to record shops, enjoying albums in their entirety and appreciating the complete artistic document that a band publishes. Sleeve notes and album leafs, album art work and inserted writings are falling off the radar. The depreciating interest in these affiliated nuances of musical output are being replaced with single downloads and remixes. Yet there is ample room for optimism within this bleak portrayal of the industry, for our age of technology is continually transitioning and transposing for a new ideal.

Take for example the invention of mini-discs. Yet, they were completely necessary as a bridging step, facilitating the shift from cds to mp3s. Comparably, pop music in the 21st century seems to be searching for an. Nonetheless, it still has the advantage of youth, where the experimentation and exploration of its dimensions are working towards a more open-ended future. Sometimes such labours are achieved through the neck of a bottle. The dilution and globalisation of pop has somewhat been caused from fragmentation, through isolation of the individuals that enjoy it.

But indeed, pop works as a reflection of what we are becoming, leaving us in logical pursuit of the question of how these changes in pop will affect musicians of the future. As undoubtedly, we have already begun experiencing this momentous upheaval.

On the larger scale of the musically minded spectrum, it stands also a simple bystander to the myriad of music that has evolved from technology. And this has been in evolution.

Not only in new forms, such as dubstep or techno, but across every aspect of music, from classroom interactions to posting independent recordings,. In the same breath, support of pop is rudimentary, like the support of the national football team - not because you expect anything from the team, but simply because you hope for things to improve.

Clearly, music now has laid technological foundations where. Ross Thomson. So what must we concede and what is there to take away from all of this?

Obviously, we take pop as a concession for the huge world of music that the digital age has allowed us to grow in to and consequently it seems we must concede the loss of the human element in music to some degree. Trying to acquire mysterious insect bites, haunting nuclear power plants, running out in the middle of freak storms and stalking geneticists usually results in a lot of bruising, restraining orders and a pretty shattered soul.

Will you give up? The ever-expanding world of superheroes continuously feeds our brains with the conviction that one day we will experience a supernatural alteration, which will turn us into a prodigy capable of extraordinary things. Whilst you wait for your DNA to change or that snake at the zoo to help you become Reptiloman you can find soothing comfort in director Dave Barras unusual and quirky superhero comedy: Electric Man. The wondrous discovery of the very rare first issue of Electric Man in their shop soon appears to be the ultimate solution to all their problems.

An escalating series of events transforms the usually quiet comic book shop into a battleground between all interested parties hoping to get their hands on the elusive comic. This Independent comedy drama is sure to stand out from the norm with its unique Scottish setting, bizarre turn of events and unusual story line.

Most superheroes will come across an elderly bearded mentor who will guide them with wise words proclaiming that with great power comes a whole wide world of trouble. Unfortunately Jazz and Wolf get to find this out the hard way.

But, will the real Electric Man arrive in time to save the day or will they be forced to face their demons alone? Director Da v e Ba r r a s shares with us his dreams, desires and worldly aspirations… actually, just a bit of insight on Electric Man. How did you come across the idea for this film? I co-wrote the script but initially it was a sitcom pilot written by my friend Scott Mackay. We then worked it into a feature length screenplay. What makes E dinburgh the ideal location for this film?

Mostly practical reasons to be honest. Gaffin Austin who owns Dead Head Comics was good enough to offer his shop as our main location so that meant no set building of a comic shop and the rest of the action takes place in a fairly tight perimeter around that.

The team we assembled for this shoot were exemplary. Keeping everybody happy is paramount. How did you come across the cr ew you have for this film? I knew many of them prior to the shoot and everyone on the crew was recommended by someone else.

Everyone knew what they were getting into and we had a night out before the shoot so we could all get to know each other. In terms of working with them, each small dept. They all knew what they were doing, which left me pretty much to concentrate on the camera and the actors. They certainly inspired me and the way they dealt with everything, good and bad, was a constant inspiration.

What would you consider ar e the biggest challe nges you have face d working on this film? Money affects everything, so no money means you have to compromise things constantly. Which sce nes of the film have you ha d the most fun with, or what characters have be e n the most e n tertaining to film? Without too ma ny spoilers! The quieter scenes where just two of the characters are talking, rather than some of the more action orientated sequences.

That said, we had great fun recreating a Comic Con and managed to get some real life comic book writers and artists along. How would you describe Electric Ma n in comparison to other super heroes, what makes this film unique? As in Indepe nde n t filmmaker what do you try to achieve through your films? I think all great movies have sub text.

Go and see it and decide for yourself. What would be your top 5 a djectives whe n r ecomme nding the film to a stra nger? Funny, thrilling, exciting, quirky, different Describe your r elationship with comics a nd the superhero world. My relationship with comics is probably similar to a lot of males my age. I was a big reader as a child and I started reading Spiderman at a young age, graduated to AD and then when Frank Miller, Alan Moore and later Neil Gaiman began to write more mature and interesting takes on that world I followed the writers more than following any one particular character.

For the final but ultimate che ese fille d question: which super power would you have a nd what would be the first thing you would do with it? First thing I would do: take off, do a couple of loop the loops and never use a car again.

I am attracted to their optimistic and aspirational qualities. I am interested in the absurd drama inherent in objects that are intended purely for display. Essentially, what the Lombard Method residency offered was two large exhibiting spaces that functioned as a kind of laboratory over the twoweek period, at the end of which, I produced an installation that brought together a number of ideas I had been toying around with.

My time in Birmingham was an opportunity for me to realise sketches and motifs in three dimensions. Drawings turned into sculptures; film references turned into the films themselves. The room is enclosed by white walls - punctuated by unexplained sculptures of stars, shapes and images.

Pipers's hands Etching. Pipers's hands Drawing. Pipers's hands Pastel. Pipes and pints Painting. Hands of Ireland, Uilleann pipes Charcoal drawing.

Irish Pipe Band Association Logo. Wing Commander Miles Delap Painting. Club Passim Isaac Alderson and other musicians Drawing. Jack Wade and Seamus Ennis Drawing. Ciaran and Rita Farrell Painting. The Bothy Band Drawing. Thomas Davis with pipes and other instruments Detail Drawing. Piper and dancers Illustration - Periodical. Piper and dancers Drawing. Piper and dancer Illustration - book. Piper and dancerws Illustration - Periodical.

Irish Piper and Fiddle player Illustration - Periodical. Piper and dancer Illustration - Periodical. Where are the fascinating, ultra-thin men with razor-blade clavicles and knobbly knees? A heterosexual man would rather look at a beautiful naked girl than anything else in the world. And there is absolutely not a thing in the world wrong with that. You seem very versatile. How would you describe yourself as a model? What is your favourite photograph of yourself?

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