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My month in music – December

By ronan • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, In Me Ears, Music

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This month I have begun to try to make a little more space in my life, and one of the things I’d like to do with this space is concentrate more on music. I’m writing this blog in the hope that it will encourage me to be a little bit more systematic [...]



The Pungent Odour of Rotting Carpet

By ronan • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog, Polathicks/Society

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Dusting off the archives, I came across this seasonal shocker. Written a year ago it might still remind some readers of similar unpleasant experiences in the mad dash to find housing for college. Unscrupulous landlords and dodgy letting agents are all par for the course in the great game of student [...]



A Big Hole On Jagtvej: Remembering Ungdomshuset.

By ronan • Apr 3rd, 2007 • Category: Blog, Polathicks/Society, the foreign

There’s a big hole on Jagtvej. They tore it down and now there’s nothing but a big hole. It could be a carpark. At the wall to Saxons there is still a chimney and flue that they couldn’t destroy. Some people gather around it and there’s a few candles lighting, a makeshift shrine in an [...]



54 Tells the Story of Life in the Shadow of A Failed Revolution

By ronan • Jan 17th, 2007 • Category: Blog, Polathicks/Society

“The Italian resistance was so significant that it basically liberated Northern Italy, and it was holding down maybe six or seven German divisions… In fact, when the American and British armies made it up to Northern Italy, they had to throw out a government already established by the Italian resistance in the region, and they [...]



Fascism, Infertility and the smallest violin in the world; Children of Men fails to deliver.

By ronan • Sep 25th, 2006 • Category: Blog, Screen/Print

Directed by stylish Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men is is the latest in a series of dystopian visions of a totalitarian society that isn’t actually so far away. It’s a cheap buck that appeals to the “Oh gosh, isn’t George Bush awful?” Banksy appreciating market, but really that market should be bloody well [...]



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