Contemporary humanity and its tireless dedication to contemporary… STUFF!

Had to pop out to the shops there a little earlier to grab a few of the basics. I live in a pretty affluent area (don’t you know). I stress the phrase ‘live in’ rather than ‘belong to’.
Maybe I was a little tired or pissed off or whatever, but for the first time in a [...]

Where the hell is Matt?

There is something utterly simple yet toe-curlingly epic about this video. Where the hell is Matt? He’s only on bloody youtube in one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long while!

The most significant film of the new millennium?

Bit of a brash statement there I know, but stick with me on this one. I do not say things like this lightly. I’m a film lover, a filmmaker and I’ve studied and read plenty on the subject of film and its place in history.
I also despise (but can’t stop myself from reading) the latest [...]

The need to evolve a more relevant belief system

So the question is ‘what belief systems can we evolve that are based on the reality of the world as we know it today?’
As noted in the previous post, I believe it is unhealthy for a culture and a society to leave its life rituals in the hands of an institution whose work is not [...]

The decline in meaningful life rituals in our society

Despite the decline in the churches influence, no other institution has evolved to perform this function, so naturally people return to what they, their family and their community know.
What follows is not a statement on orgnised religion or an attempt to define ‘the modern’. It is borne of a love of human culture in general [...]

Decline in Western institutionalised religion does not mean we don’t ‘believe’ anymore

I also don’t believe in the idea that because traditional institutionalised religions are losing their following and their popularity in some parts of the world, such as Ireland, that it is indicative of a way of life losing its spirituality and its sense of something greater than itself.
I think the relative decline in traditional values [...]

Dear God. Why do bad things happen?

I have been hearing a lot of religious minded people asking the age old question lately: ‘If God is good why does he let so many bad things happen?’ It’s understandable when you look at the climate crisis, global greed and poverty, the wars in Iraq and elsewhere and the death of thousands of people [...]

LSD and the BBC

Believe me, I’ve watched alot of television in my day and despite the obvious arguments against (of which I am a massive supporter), every now and again something comes along that bites you as you stuff your face with crisps and drink another cup of dodgy tea. It makes you rethink your attitudes to the [...]

Good news for Wallace & Gromit fans

Empire have a piece on the new Wallace and Gromit special to be aired on the BBC later this year (surely at Christmas time?). Regardless of all the Saturday moning cartoons and Disney-like features that I watched as a kid, these were the first pieces of animation that allowed me to see what an inventive [...]

About Updated

The last version was far too long and off the point. I considered a painfully honest (yet amusing) page outlining the absolutely horrendous discrepencies between my ‘official’ CV and the reality of the career that lay behind it. I’ve seen a number of these around the net and they are educational to say the least.
But [...]