Christopher James
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Painter. Designer. I shot a man in Reno
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Predator Badlands is shockingly bad. Those pitching that it is a fresh new take simply lack the ability to imagine a world in which we arenāt force-fed shit like this. The Marvelisation of the Alien and Predator franchises continues apace. Romulus, Alien Earth and now this; all soulless junk.
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Pt Damien Jackson KIA Helmand Province 5/7/06 Killed four days short of his twentieth birthday. He was extraordinary.
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Columbo Prints are available here. Just £35.
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about 24 hours ago
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The Columbo Case Notes Notebook is available on Amazon worldwide
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about 24 hours ago
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From the venerable UNCUT way back in 2003, a selective critical listing of the bandās mid and later-period āsinglesā (1988-2001). Particularly fun to see the guysā realtime reactions to some of these songs.
www.uncut.co.uk/features/lis...
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REM's 20 greatest singles of their major-label era
As chosen by Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe themselves
https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/lists/rem-couldnt-successful-didnt-want-successful-73437/
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Thereās been a purple patch of tv over the summer, but now we are struggling to find anything decent. Back in the cycle of watching the first ep of a new show then immediately abandoning it because itās dreck. Any recommendations? The more nihilistic and dread-filled the better.
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Hot off the Royal Mail van. Thanks for the recommendation
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Iām going to sit with this very comfortable seven inches in hand while I take a break from the easel and realign my back. Super fast delivery by the fabulous
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Lovely stuff.
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The Witcher was never Fellini, but it was fun. Series4 is dreadful. Sub-Hollyoaks levels of acting. A forced lesbian storyline that is meant titillate teenage boys but the lack of chemistry makes it completely sexless. And the budget has clearly been slashed so it looks like BBCās āDoctorsā. Dreck
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As long as This Life+10 exists, this will not be the worst thing ever made. It has usurped The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives [all of the husbands are deeply closeted, but very obvious, homosexuals. Itās like Angels in America meets The Kardashians] as a new Hulu nadir. Watch while tripping balls.
3 days ago
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Portrait Artist of the year judges constantly talk about finding a likeness. It is an utterly pointless goal in the age of the camera. Painting should showcase the material, or why bother, and strive to communicate something more than the obvious, which lurks somewhere that is felt and not seen.
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M is watching bake-off. I donāt watch it, because itās devoid of the nihilism I crave. I enjoy the contestants talking about making cakes like they are saving lives in an ER, itās the most important thing in the world and everything is riding on it. Itās a lesson in perspective and narcissism.
4 days ago
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Just sorting through The Boyās washing and find that he has bought himself a rather lovely Pulp Fiction T-shirt. He was watching Eyes Without A Face at the weekend too, having bought the blu ray. All of that investment appears to have paid off, and Iām rather pathetically proud.
5 days ago
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This is the kind of headline Iām on the internet for.
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Pre order up now lads
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Ten days of court time. Ridiculous. āAs of Sept 2025, there are 4,086 rape cases and 1,759 child rape cases waiting to go to trial in the Crown Court in England and Wales, both record highs. The total number of all sexual offence cases waiting for trial in the Crown Court is 13,238.ā (Rape Crisis)
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I thought Iād be completely sick to the back fucking teeth of hearing about the former Prince Andrew by now but no, I cannot stop laughing.
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columbo screenshots
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The artist formerly known as Prince
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Incredible work. Iāve always loved McCullinās Vietnam work, but his later material featuring nature and landscapes has an inescapable humanity too, despite the complete absence of people.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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āItās been a cesspit, really, my lifeā: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy ā while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2025/oct/29/its-been-a-cesspit-really-my-life-war-photographer-don-mccullin-on-19-of-his-greatest-pictures
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The Iris Affair: The Night Manager meets Eldorado; HBO money, ITV2 sensibility. Trope upon threadbare trope. Stodgy direction. Poorly written- each character could be called Basil Expostion- and, most criminally of all, itās really really fucking dull. Why do I do this to myself?
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Very grateful to have a great project to get my teeth into in the studio at the moment- Iām energised and fizzing with ideas. I spent my first decades rarely without a 2B in hand, so sketching again feelsā¦.right. And Iām really fucking good at it, so I donāt know why I ever stopped.
13 days ago
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Despite not being anywhere near what I would ever usually listen to I am forced to recognise that this record is, indeed, excellent. Nepo Baby Pop. Recommended.
16 days ago
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"Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history." James Connolly
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Stunning egress from the city centre this evening
17 days ago
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It occurs to me that the satisfaction inherent in painting is tied to its analogue nature. There is no digital element. It is today what it was decades ago, never changing. It is just me and the material and the thrilling possibility of an image. It will always will be the ultimate physical media.
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Task, because it has 7 episodes with many moving parts, is a fairly hollow experience, but the final episode hit an emotional resonance within me that was so powerful that I wept. Mark Ruffaloās humanity reminded me that there is still so much good in the world. Good stuff.
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Women who have sex for money are *always* exploited. Itās not āworkā, itās not a job, itās exploitation. The happy hooker does not exist. āSex workerā, far from being empowering, diminishes this exploitation and the squalid behaviour of men like P. Andrew
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Itās a hard realisation- in middle age- that the world does not belong to us anymore. Twenty five years ago I was the future, now Iām a relic. An analogue beast stalking, lost and confused, a digital age. So when what youāre doing is not going to change the world, what is it for?
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Ashcroft spunks out another record completely devoid of inspiration, created in a hermetically sealed cultureless vacuum. If youād never heard music before youād still think this cliched, turgid, and built on worn lyrical tropes. Middle aged Adidas wankers with feather cuts will think it profound.
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Leaning hard on Nick Cave at the minute. Took me far too long to appreciate hisā¦genius, I suppose. As a lyricist I think heās peerless. Thereās an emotional immediacy and clarity that visual art cannot ever convey, which frustrates me as an artist, but Cave taps this vein effortlessly.
25 days ago
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This.
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25 days ago
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Late to the party with Severance. I thought it would be a frustrating āLostā style endless series of open questions, but no. S2 E7 āChikhai Bardoā is the best episode of television that I have watched in some time. $200 million well spent for the production design alone.
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Insomnia is a hell of a drug. With the old licences you could eat a yoghurt in a windswept car park, while crying about your divorce and the fact you have to wait until next Saturday to see the kids. The new one is flimsy shite. I demand a better class of plastic. 2015 v 2025
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I used to think that Struzan was second only to Saul Bass when it came to film posters but his work is so inextricably linked with a very long run of iconic films that are lodged deep in the psyche of Gen Xers that this usurps any claim of superior design
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Drew Struzan,Ā Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78
He created some of the most memorable movie posters of all-time in his own signature style as Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro pay tribute.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/
26 days ago
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The government plans for digital ID are more far-reaching than previously implied; required to access child care, welfare & housing support, to rent or buy a home, buy a pint, join a library, enrol your children in school, to apply for a job, open a bank account and "much more besides". Fuck this.
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27 days ago
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Iām glad that we live in a world where people are free to exhibit their eccentricities guilelessly, but I cannot imagine posting this online. Itās like a fetish wear demo. Do comic book guys fuck wearing this stuff? Is that what this is? Like the puppy people?
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27 days ago
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Beautifully edited sequence is this
29 days ago
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Watching the Alien 3 Legacy Cut- a five years in the making fan project to correct the janky cgi, colour correct the negative and to combine the best elements of the assembly and theatrical cuts. Itās a miracle that itās this good. Definitive. A far superior Alien film to Aliens.
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Hermann Gƶring was a narcissistic homovestite, he was obsessed with being awarded medals and honours, with grotesque bling, treated underlings like shit, married multiple times, insisted on a disgusting level of opulence, and was mad with power. He also wore makeup Does that remind you of anybody?
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Three Studies of Columbo Pencil & Digital Collage, 2025
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A long lost Burton interview here (from 39 minutes). Unheard for forty one years and recently rediscovered. His final interview for the BBC weeks before his death. It is, as youād expect, magnificent.
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World at One - Gaza ceasefire begins - BBC Sounds
Thousands of Palestinians return to their homes while Israeli forces pull back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kfms?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Trying to renew an expired driving licence has turned into a fucking Kafka-esque nightmare; government websites where facial scans are mandatory (no thanks, fuck off), and the DVLA, whose system was built by a braindead moron. Iām not cut out for the modern world. I feel like a prisoner here.
about 1 month ago
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Sublime. āIām Alan Partridgeā levels of brilliance.
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Henry
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The Francis Bacon Foundation following me on insta in September, and subsequently starting to interact with my account, was certainly not on my 2025 bingo card. I still find social media a profoundly odd experience at times, where the barrier between us and celebrity/heroes completely dissolves.
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about 1 month ago
Michael Sheen talking about his dad's career as a Jack Nicholson impersonator is the finest radio you'll hear all year.
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BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Michael Sheen, actor
Michael Sheen, actor, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k3fs
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Thoughts on AI slop and the people who evangelise about it. This is longer than it takes to have a wank, so do that first.
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Mine too Richard
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āThe nationalisation of both family and sex makes possible a biopolitics of reproduction that is also a necropoliticsā¦the fascist woman is enlisted in the libidinised religion of death that glorifies the national martyr, fallen in the act of killing.ā Toscano, Late Fascism (2023) Essential read
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Lots of talk about Keeping Up Appearances, rightly so because itās still one of those very safe and daft absurdist classic sitcoms that works, like One Foot in the Grave, but thereās not much praise for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Patricia Routledge was brilliant in both.
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