Kester Brewin

Month: October 2007

  • Live

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    I love the look of fierce concentration on the faces of musicians, playing live, struggling to hear the foldback, straining to keep within the bounds of the beat… The rush of performance and I think of my own struggles to live life, playing live, no click track. This is not a recording. The energy and…

  • Once…

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    is a wonderful film which I can’t recommend highly enough. Dublin. A busker. A Czech pianist, selling roses on the street to scrape a living. Not a great deal else. Subtle, simple film-making hung around wonderful music. Go see now. Technorati: Once | Dublin

  • ‘Does Your Soul Have a Cold?’ | Wholphin | IFC Monday 9pm EDT

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    Out of the same stable as The Believer, Wholphin is a short-story mag for short films. They mailed me today about a great-looking film, showing on IFC this Monday at 9pm EDT. (I’d love someone to record it for me 😉 The spiel goes: Back in 2000, western pharmaceutical companies began a massive marketing campaign…

  • Dump

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    Still on holiday here, and doing some clearing jobs around the house/garden that have been building up for a while. Which means I’ve had to go to the dump today – one of the finest, most joyous experiences in the urban environment. You go heavy loaded, driving slowly, suspension almost topping out… and leave it…

  • Autumn

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    Trees sense a moment when the balance between night and day changes. The shorter days trigger the development of a suicidal hormone in each leaf which creeps down the stem to the joint with the woody twig. Here it stimulates the growth of a sphincter of brittle, hard tissue that gradually closes in on itself,…

  • OneVoice: To End the Conflict in Israel/Palestine

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    From the 18th October celebrations. All power to this arm. Technorati: Israel | OneVoice | Palestine