Tag: lambchop
Lambchop
Before I saw the band in concert, I would never have called the music of Lambchop romantic. Somehow, within a couple of tracks from their new release OH (Ohio), I found myself feeling the lurve. It could have been the semicute gaucheness of singer/guitarist Kurt Wagner, though he is rather an acquired taste. It could …
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At home with Papa: from Key West to Key Largo
Great War ambulance driver, the Lost Generation’s leading light, hunter in the Serengeti, radicalist sympathiser in the Spanish Civil War, Q-Boat captain Cuba, D-Day correspondent, Nobel Prize winner, friend then enemy of …
- Originally published: 16 Jan 2008 in North America
The Illusionist
Director: Neil Burger United States, 2006 Looking for some diversion ahead of a long flight, I first came across Steven Millhauser’s unusual oeuvre in Bangkok airport around New Year 2001. Maybe I even judged …
- Originally published: 20 Mar 2007 in Film
Have you seen this pub?
This is the Isis Tavern, down the Isis around Oxford somewhere in the direction of that horrible fumey Eastern bypass that has a Sainsbury’s on it at Heyford Hill. We went there twice …
- Originally published: 19 Jul 2005 in Editorial
The Apartment
Director: Billy Wilder United States, 1960 Wilder’s comedy about a clerk who lets his bosses use his apartment for trysts in exchange for career advancement has some unusually dark moments but on the whole …
- Originally published: 15 Jan 2007 in Film
Celebrating bureaucracy?
Opponents of the European Union are fond of pointing out what they see as the three grand negatives: democratic deficit, lack of transparency and unwieldy bureaucracy. Brussels certainly doesn’t do itself any favours …
- Originally published: 5 Mar 2009 in Humour
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.