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Thursday, June 28, 2012

SILVER SCREEN: FILM/A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION

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This is the 300th title in Oxford University Press’s excellent ‘Very Short Introduction’ series of pocket books. [Have previously reviewed M...

SILVER SCREEN: PALERMO SHOOTING

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Occasionally a movie comes along that switches on a light in your brain. ‘Palermo Shooting’ is, for my money, Wim Wenders greatest movie to...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

NME ARCHIVE: MIDNIGHT EXPRESS1

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Back in 1978, ‘Midnight Express’ caused a sensation and a great deal of criticism over its negative portrayal of the Turkish people who, i...

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 2: INTERVIEWS

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This is the first reprint of a piece that ran in the NME on August 19th 1978 under the headline ‘The Long Road From Turkey to Hollywood’ f...

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 3: DRUG PRISONERS

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In the following August 26th issue of NME I wrote this piece which looked at the plight of British drug prisoners in foreign jails.  For thi...

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 4: ALAN PARKER

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This interview with Alan Parker was conducted in July 1978 by my friend and colleague David Brittain, who has given his permission for its...

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 5: UPDATES

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Billy Hayes is now 65  and has made a career as an actor/writer/director. See IMDB for details. During the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, Al...

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 6: DRUG GEOPOLITICS

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This remarkable document by Jorrit Kamminga gives a detailed view of what was going on behind the scenes of ‘Midnight Express’ between t...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

BIT TRAVEL GUIDE: OVERLAND TO INDIA – AND BEYOND….

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ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL is an excellent site by Hans Roodenberg Regular readers of THE GENERALIST will know we have been drawing together in...

70s CULTURE: BITMAN1

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THE GENERALIST ARCHIVE has also received from Gian Paolo Chiari a rare copy of BITMAN 1, dated May 1970 – a 40pp mimeographed and stapled ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

THE GENERALIST IS 7

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  THE GENERALIST IS SEVEN YEARS OLD THIS MONTH! Thanks to all my readers worldwide for your continued support. Heading for 10...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

INSIDE DOPE: MIKE JAY - DRUG HISTORY AND THE AIR LOOM

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There is a huge literature on the history of drugs yet little of this knowledge has permeated into the mainstream drug debate, which rema...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

EARTHED: STREET LIGHTING

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Back in 2008, I briefly became a 'virtual expert' on the subject of energy-efficient lighting when I was hired by the Professional...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

THE THOUSAND HUTS CAMPAIGN + CABIN PORN

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  It was a chance meeting with Bernard, who lives in his own cabin up near the tip of north-east Scotland (as do his kids), which led m...
Monday, May 28, 2012

EARTHED: THE NEW AGE OF WOOD

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  Back in 2006, when I was Editor-in-Chief of Tree News   magazine [ SEE PREVIOUS POST ], we ran a feature on this beautiful book  ‘Archite...

EARTHED: TALL WOOD BUILDINGS

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This is the 30-storey Tall Wood Tower, designed by Canadian architect Michael Green for Vancouver. Green and his colleagues believe pass...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

BILL BUTLER & THE UNICORN BOOKSHOP + BETTER BOOKS

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  Bill Butler was one of the good guys who died too young. Bill was a larger-than-life character, poet, publisher, distributor and found...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

VERNACULAR NEWS: EARTH ARCHITECTURE

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This crackerjack of a book by Ronald Rael, linked to an impressive blog, is a great starting point for finding out about earth building i...

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: KEEPING IT LOCAL

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The term ‘vernacular architecture’ has many different meanings and interpretations. I am working on my own definition/description which a...
Monday, May 07, 2012

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE: ARTICLE 25 AND PALM-LEAF BUILDING

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On May 2nd I was invited by the charity Article 25 to give a talk about Vernacular Architecture in general and my book ‘Handmade Houses’...