Not So Famous Last Words | Rev. David Herbert Allen | 1920ish – 1992
There is a memory of a photograph of my grandfather in short pants, on a sand dune, shirtless, laughing, but I cannot tell you where my grandfather served in the war, my mother used to be able to, but now she talks mostly about the farm.
“For the first time in human history, a simple program has proven effective in the lives of many addicts.” –NA Preamble, “What is the NA Program”
While the simple program has proven effective for me now, there have been many other times in human history where suffering existed, dependency existed, and acceptance existed. But the addict, as a category of person to be punished, did not yet exist. This has been a relatively new historical development.
Reactionary Reviews | The Polygamist | Netflix
Sometimes trash is necessary as a distraction. The most distracting thing about The Polygamist is the one persistent question: Where the fuck do they get these shades of lipstick from?
by Roger Young & Ur
My cat often paws at its reflection in the mirror leaning against the outside wall, contemplates it, tilts its head quizzically, testing the reflection’s responses. If a bird flies past, it will follow the sound, run out into the garden.
The first mission is in motion before dawn, in the cold damp hours steaming from blankets and pallets, they head out into the mines, down in the trash of last night, cans, bottles, cardboard, treasure, separating into black plastics for the scrapyard scales. They range slow burdened and sure, investigating and scrutinising, every find is a fragment closer to a piece, a cap, a packet of two rand biscuits.
Reactionary Reviews | Notes From The Underground
Notes is documentary in its truest form. It is a document that aligns to the ethos of what it is documenting. An act of reverence. Refraining from any examination or critique of that it is historicizing. It is here that Notes From The Underground both fails and succeeds.
an interview with Serokolo 7
electronic garble… static…. “rural, the rural areas, places like that, Limpopo”… more garble…“not really good, netwaaarkkkkkkk,” and Tshepang’s voice breaks away, bouncing off the satellites…
I am trying to interview Serokolo 7 after his track, Bonkoko Bagana was dropped by Björk during a DJ set at the Venice Biennale. Which happened shortly after his Nyege Nyege-released Maramfa Musick Pro was reviewed on Guardian UK, The Fader, and The Wire.
The Muizenburg Stasi
The chief complaint in the Muizenburg Resident’s Association petition against the creation of a Muizenburg Safe Space seems to be that bringing sixty five homeless people into the area will overwhelm their private gestapo.
Reactionary Reviews | The Death Of Bunny Munro
The Death Of Bunny Munro – based on the novel by Nick Cave with music by Nick Cave and featuring a cameo from Nick Cave – is SPOILER ALERT about a character called Bunny Munro who dies.
Belated | Notes On Hats
Carlo Mombelli & The Prisoners Of Strange | 12/12/25
Circling where the venue should be, a rising niggle. It's not even nine yet according to the listing it’s late, I pay no mind: Jazz is the sufi word for time travel.