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The Big Interview: Ruesha Littlejohn

“That’s just me. What you see is what you get with me,” says Ruesha Littlejohn, when discussing the character and personality which has endeared her to many in the women’s game. She is though honest throughout our chat to admit it has also held her back, particularly when she was younger, and she had to quickly mature to save her international career with Republic of Ireland after switching allegiances from Scotland.

The Collapse of Hollywood - by Julian Simpson

Got to love a dramatic title. The film and television industry is not collapsing, but now and again it seems to enjoy acting like it might be. We've had a pandemic and then a writers/actors strike and now we're in a period of consolidation as big companies gobble up small ones, and once-big companies flounder and break apart on the rocks. None of this i… ncG1vNJzZmiclauyrbvPppynrJiaua160q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqlnpJ2ybq%2FOpaOaqKOaerCyjKGmpaSprLywsA%3D%3D

The Complete 1983 Guitar Player Interview (Audio)

This never-before-released interview took place in a San Francisco hotel room on October 22, 1983, during AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch tour. Lead guitarist Angus Young, the man with the million-dollar vibrato, begins with a heartfelt discussion of his brother Malcolm, whom he insists is a far better guitarist. He talks about their older brother George, who found worldwide success with the Easybeats and went on to produce the early AC/DC albums.

the concept of a cursed bird

I assumed I would enjoy Robert Eggers’ sophomore film The Lighthouse. And guess what? I was right! I continue to delight in weird movies about increasingly deranged white people. In this movie I was like “what is UP with this seagull?” and then Robert Pattinson beat it to death with his bare hands. So clearly, that made two of us. Admittedly it was a little overdramatic, but I’m sure we have all wanted to give seagulls a taste of their own medicine.

The detritus of this technological moment

There’s no getting away from waste. I mean literal garbage, although there’s a deeper metaphysical resonance in the idea. For centuries, people used wagons to take away waste. By the 1920s open-top trucks were used for the same thing. This mechanical turn caused problems of an odorous sort, however, so covered vehicles were soon preferred. Then in 1937, a man with the darkly serendipitous name of George Dempster invented the Dempster-Dumpster system, which allowed wheeled waste containers to be mechanically tipped into a truck.