Alex: Is the Bristol Carpet Factory a factory, or an outlet? If an outlet, where are the carpets made?Kid Carpet: The Bristol Carpet Factory is a front. It's an abandoned warehouse somewhere downtown which from the outside looks really massive but inside is actually tiny. this is my secret hideaway where the magic happens with small machines, … [Read more...] about Alex Cox interviews KID CARPET
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Al’s Photo Gallery: LIZARD COMMUNITIES
by Alex Cox All these lizards share the same territory, a piece of land between my shed & my vegetable garden. Hard though it is to credit, I think the serene, mature lizard in the first picture (taken in July 2006) is also the crazed, battered old timer in the second (taken July 2008). … [Read more...] about Al’s Photo Gallery: LIZARD COMMUNITIES
Anastasia’s Garden: The Pursuit of Happiness
by Anastasia, Wise Woman of the Siberian Taiga Hi, Credulous Westerners! And a big hello from me and my Siberian tigers and ocelots! I'm Anastasia - you probably know me best as the blonde, best-selling, samizat ecological warrior, resident of the mysterious Taiga wilderness, in modern Russia. Happiness is the subtext of my popular series of … [Read more...] about Anastasia’s Garden: The Pursuit of Happiness
Alex Cox on Peter Watkins
PETER COME HOME by Alex Cox I saw Peter Watkins' film CULLODEN when it was first broadcast: on 15 Dec 1964. I watched it with my parents. It was on the new, third TV channel - BBC2 - and it played not long after we'd had our tea. My folks didn't let on to being impressed by it, but it disturbed me. Thanks to the documentary style, the parallels between what the … [Read more...] about Alex Cox on Peter Watkins
Straighten Up and Fly Right: Airport Prisoners
by Alex Cox A recent article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists suggested that 9/11-style hijackings could not occur again, since the passengers would resist the hijackers, rather than passively acquiesce. It would be good if this were so. But it seems highly unlikely. Air travel has become so unpleasant, so constrained, so prison-like, that travellers acquiesce as a matter … [Read more...] about Straighten Up and Fly Right: Airport Prisoners