Consonant, Vowel, Consonant: RIP
Black+White
September 2005
Dave Quinn reflects on the life of Richard Whiteley
As supposedly the most watched man on British television, having made more than 10,000 appearances, Richard Whiteley didn’t exactly need to raise his profile.
That’s why it’s surprising that the genial uncle of teatime telly made time in the autumn of 1999 to be [...]
Black+White
September 2005
Predictable, lazy, amoral, simple-minded garbage – this is what we are told modern mainstream telly has become. Doctor Who was pretty much the opposite.
There wasn’t a ginger bloke in a neck-brace bellowing nonsense about ’sex wee’. There weren’t any wannabes or minor celebrities punching each other, eating maggots, stripping naked or having sex. There [...]
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Black+White
March 2005
Ashcroft yells desperately at the crowd: “You’re all fucking idiots! Shut up!”, as Barley raps about a “9/11 of the mind”
Nathan Barley is one of the idiots. What type of person rides around on a tiny kids’ tricycle and implores strangers at a bus-stop to “check out the website, it’s well fuckin’ futile”?
Barley, that’s [...]
"Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness."
- Haruki Murakami
