Women by Charles Bukowski Henry ‘Hank’ Chinaski is an alcoholic writer who maintains a complex relationship with the many women in his life. He’s a highly regarded poet who likes to get drunk and fight with his audiences at readings. He enjoys his literary groupies, often twice in one night and three times on a […]
Leon was a remarkable movie with a great cast including a very young and precocious Natalie Portman. It had it all, action, sentiment, twists and turns and fine acting. Rebel Voice has given you the final scenes when Gary Oldman’s crazy cop corners Leon in the apartment. What an ending! https://youtu.be/tUwnpj85sIw – If you enjoyed […]
Kelly’s Heroes is a 1970 war movie about some opportunism within the US army as they discover a massive cache of gold being guarded by the SS. The enterprising individuals, led by Kelly – played by Clint Eastwood – set out to try to acquire the precious metal for their own use. Although it’s a […]
This is a brief intro to the well-liked US author of such classics as The Cartel and The Power of the Dog. Winslow is a masterful writer and appears here to be a grounded and personable individual. – If you care, give it a share –
Lightening Men by Thomas Mullen This is Mullen’s fifth novel, and a real beauty. Set in 1950’s Atlanta, it deals with the violent racism that permeated the entire society, and is very relevant today as neo-Nazism and white supremacism rear their ugly heads in the most public way in the USA. There are a […]
Book Review Down Among The Dead Men by Kerry Wilkinson I won’t spend too much time on this review as it’s really not worth it. The story is set in Manchester, England and that is what enticed me to the book. I get tired reading tales all located in the same few cities. I […]
Book Review The Fever – by Megan Abbott This story is almost a reworking of The Crucible, about the Salem witch trials, which were predicated upon female teenage hysteria. Deenie Nash is a normal 16 year old girl with the sort of friends that are so typical during secondary (high school) education. Her older brother, […]
I spoke with an Irishman in San Francisco many years ago, and he told me of how he and a friend went to an event at the planetarium where there was a computer-generated 3-D visual display that gave the viewer the impression of flying through space. I have been to something similar at the planetarium […]
Here is an introduction to one the greatest Irish balladeers of today, or any day. Damien Dempsey is from working class Dublin. His songs are based upon the struggles of life to be found in everyday Ireland. If you want to understand life in modern Ireland, then let Dempsey be your guide. https://youtu.be/Q9Wwg0Y1Sc4?t=1m41s
The content of the following report, from teleSur, is extremely worrying. The suggestion is that planned military exercises conducted ostensibly to counter drugs gangs in Amazonia, are really a pretext for the establishment of permanent US military bases in the region. If the suggestion is true, and teleSur are rarely mistaken, then it would appear […]
Rumble Tumble by Joe R. Lansdale Where has this author been hiding from me? And why? It’s rare that I accidentally encounter an established writer who is completely unknown to me yet is fantastic. If Rumble Tumble is typical of Joe R. Lansdale’s standards then I will be reading a lot more of him from […]
This is summery type of song, just to give you a little lift…
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