The Eye of an Archer

review

  • Same Same, but Different: Brotherhood, Fate, and the Cold Miracle of Let God Sort ’Em Out

    Six months on, Let God Sort ’Em Out feels less like an album than a settled fact. Not a comeback or a victory lap, but something colder and stranger: an inevitability realised. What distinguishes Clipse’s return is not novelty or… Continue reading

    Same Same, but Different: Brotherhood, Fate, and the Cold Miracle of Let God Sort ’Em Out

  • My Life in 100 Songs

    The past is fascinating. It is the home of nostalgia, of infinite experiences, of different feelings, of different loves, selves, places and people. Since publishing My Life in 100 Films, I’ve been drawn again to collect experience under the umbrella… Continue reading

    My Life in 100 Songs

  • Trainspotting (1993, 1996): A Tale of Two Tastes

    In the landscape of cultural adaptation, few works demonstrate the metamorphosis of medium  as starkly as Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and Danny Boyle’s cinematic interpretation. Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting was one of the 90s’ defining works of cinema: fresh, exhilarating, narcissistic and… Continue reading

    Trainspotting (1993, 1996): A Tale of Two Tastes