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Looking for Eric but Finding Yourself.

By hXci • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Screen/Print

photo credit: Two up, two down
Let me get this straight. I am not a Manchester United fan. Far from it- I’d go so far as to say I hate Manchester United. While I respect their history, I hate what they and most other top- flight clubs have become. I am a football fan. I [...]



Disappearing.

By hXci • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Features, Misc

When I hide, sometimes I hide so well I get lost. The problem with this is, when I want to be found again, it’s something of an impossibility- I’m lost for days… weeks. Once I was lost for a whole eight months before I regained the strength to resurrect myself. That’s the magnitude of how [...]



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By hXci • Oct 10th, 2008 • Category: Blog, Misc

I have this habit of waking up when sunrise is just around the corner. The tiniest sound – some selfish bastard kicking a can down the street a mile away, or the drunks in the alley finishing the night off, tired but still loud and brash; the girls bitching and fighting, the boys fighting, then [...]



Dispatch From A Doolin Stag Weekend

By hXci • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Blog, Misc

photo credit: Orford Piece
A rite of passage that’s said to have it’s roots in ancient Sparta in the fifth century BC was never going to be without it’s fair share of primitive nudity, decadent bachanalic frenzies and worship of the dead. It was obvious even before we descended into a sleepy seaside village [...]



Film Review: Things to do In Bruges before you die.

By hXci • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Blog, Screen/Print

Martin McDonagh does well in his first feature length to capture the small town atmosphere of Bruges using it’s landscape and architecture to give the ethereal backdrop needed for the purgatory analogy most people draw from the situation Ken (Gleeson) and Ray (Farrell) are in. The opening scene has a good whiff of “Waiting [...]



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