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It’s Different For Girls
There has been some chatter around the local Twitter hub of late about that old thorny issue of women in music. Last week when a music website decided to publish a Daily Fail style reader-trolling/baiting review that ‘ironically’ rolled out that old ‘hilarious’ observation that having a vagina means…
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Teenage Scream : Hollyoaks & Tea-time Rape Culture
Telly teen girls will always be commodities. Ever since poor old Nabokov gave the lazy architects of tea-time droolfests a teasing template, there has been the slippery of lip, bony of hip, school uniform seductress, a bit of ‘innocent’ distraction for the Dads to make soap-time bearable. This used…
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A.A Gill & Guilty Pleasures
Never has a phrase made me dissolve into tears of righteous anger quicker than ‘Guilty Pleasure’. Guilty BLOODY Pleasures, what self hating simpleton thought this up? How utterly, miserably Catholic to have to feel shame and turmoil about quite liking something that’s not deemed retro enough to be ironic….
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Pop Life: Loving Laverne
Heroes seem to come in colossal form. Giant-size tornadoes of drama like Bowie, Dylan, Morrissey that whisked into your tiny life in the nick of time to save you from dingy normality and focus you on to the path to secret brilliance that no-one had yet recognised. They were…
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The Trouble With Girls….
In between the cries of ‘kill the whore!’ which flooded the Guardian comments section on a recent piece about Kim Kardashian, sounding uncomfortably like an internal monologue by Peter Sutcliffe, there was a sliver of more digestible indignation about the woman the masses love to hate. A lone troll threw out the…
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Brand Spanking Q?
Good old Q magazine, without you we may have never have witnessed Jonny Borrell’s saucer eyes bulging out from the front cover turning every newsstand into a fish mongers. Whereas Mojo and Uncut favour the safely dead, Q was the place for lads that grew tired with the NME and…
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Bret Easton Ellis – Pop Culture King
We live in a world where Kanye describes his sartorial superiority in relentless, irrelevant detail down to his monogrammed socks, where every stare, blink and perfectly pouty punctuation pause by those Hills girls have taken on some kind of existentialist meaning and have seeped into our very being. Where…
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Culture: Michael Galinsky – Malls Across America
Prevailing images/memories of Irish shopping centres in the late 80s and early 90s include: The Ilac centre’s Soda Fountain with its thin Milk-Mate milkshakes and giant banana splits. Girls in too tight ski-pants with their version of the mullet (straight fringe at the front, curly mousse mess at the…
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Culture: Books – Nick Hornby & Gary Mulholland
Lists are dangerous. This fact should be abundantly clear in these post-millennium, nowheresville dog-end days, where time is wasted in magazine-land arguing about ‘The Top 100 Songs That Last Less Than Three Minutes With The Name Jimmy In Them’. Prioritising the songs you love is a dirty, sinister thing,…
