Culture Vulture Schmulture – J
Here’s “Johnny”: Atoz selects a poem as his choice for the letter “J”.
Here’s “Johnny”: Atoz selects a poem as his choice for the letter “J”.
“‘World Music’ is reckoned to be the fastest growing genre in the music business, with sales booming in the High Street. If this is true then the three-day WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) Festival – now in its 11th year at Reading – has to take some of the credit.” David Stockton reviews the 2000 WOMAD.
Atoz goes for a feel-good choice for “E” – starring Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and, er, Russell Osman…
In which Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers are d-feated by two blokes from the Catskill Mountains, NY.
“I have to admit, I’ve struggled to come up with something for this week. However, ever the soldier, I have consumed vast amounts of alcohol this week (in the interests of creativity, of course), and come up with something tenuously cultural and tenuously “C”-ish.” Hmm… Is C for cheating, or at least copping out? Atoz tells us.
Michael Jackson, Trevor Howard, Graham Greene and Paul Simon are all “B”ten into second place by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder and a can of beans…