Album Review
Jeniferever
Spring Tides
Swedish playwright August Strindberg said, “People are constantly clamouring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life.” Fellow countrymen, Jeniferever, understand this and their pursuit of joy is not a clamour, but a hard, cruel battle of vast orchestrations [...]

Film Review
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Dolores was right, “It’s the same old thing since 1916”. But for the past decade, the fighting was not being fought with “their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns”, but with diplomacy. And it was working… until the murder of two British soldiers by the Real IRA [...]

Album review
Doves
Kingdom of Rust
An album title is important. It is our first introduction to the music to come, to the emotion that follows, to the philosophy in which we will get lost. It reveals a great deal about the band’s thought processes, the album’s theme and even, to an extent, the musical style.
Strangeways Here [...]

Bill Maher preaches the gospel of “I don’t know”. He’s an evangelist of doubt. A sermonizer of rationality. A missionary of questioning. And like his opponents, the evangelical fanatics, religious zealots and the dogged clergy, his views are seldom supported with fact, seldom open to serious debate and never given in an accepting forum.
Yet, this [...]

I love self-help books. They make me feel warm and fuzzy and motivate me to change my life. They let me know that everything is OK and that although I have many faults, I have never exploited the weak and desperate, the lonely and confused, the struggling and needy by writing a book that I [...]