Cast - Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Barbican Theatre, November 13, 14, 15 review to follow

There are things in life that you want, but think you'll never going to be able or willing to afford. I've seen and been bowled over (it's a pun, but I'm serious) the artist Guggi's work in galleries, always wishing I could take one home with me. This week, ...

This Volkswagen commercial combines 'Lost in Translation'-type images with Richard Burton's evocative reading of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. Gorgeous. (via Vanderzande.com). I'm not that keen on motorcars in general, but I do keep telling people that driving through cities at night and London in particular is one of ...

Puppetmaker and musician Erik Sanko (Lounge Lizzards, Tom Waits, Lou Reed.) has created a puppet show called The Fortune Teller. He made the puppets and wrote the music with Danny Elfman. Pre-recorded narration courtesy of the great Gavin Friday. The show opens at the HERE Theatre in New York on ...

Finally was able to make the big announcement today. This is what I've been immersed in for the last two months (regular readers will perhaps have picked up on the Germanic flavour of certain items and links here), basically doing research and lending a hand wherever I can. Nothing major, mind. ...

Watching Matthew Barney's Cremaster 4 and 5 at the Filmmuseum on Tuesday, we kept thinking 'I get it now', and 'Oh, that's symbolic for...', and 'Surely that must mean...', "OMG, beyond Freudian...', but mostly, 'Um... maybe not.' I kept looking for clues, for... story, rather than meaning, in these dialogue-free films, ...