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culturecrammer is a unique space for voracious culture junkies everywhere. Flitting freely between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, culturecrammer aims to serve as an eclectic online gateway, a crossroads from which to take your tastes into new territories. From music to film, books to art, videogames to opera, culturecrammer is for people who like to get their cultural fix smorgasbord-style, with lashings of original thought and most of all, passion.
- Added on: Aug 27th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: culturecrammer
- Listed in: Arts Music
- Tags: art books music Film opera videogames
Recent Posts
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell (Faber & Faber, 1957-60)
by Bolokovsky, guest contributor When Lawrence Durrell published his teratology of novels The Alexandria Quartet (1957-60), he could hardly have been more out of step with the emerging new wave of British fiction. For although Durrell was born a dec...
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino) 9/8/09
Some landmark records document a giant transformational leap in a band’s development, marking that moment when good artists become great ones. Bitte Orca is such a record. That it’s also a strange and wayward affair is no surprise coming ...
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate, 2001)
To read Jonathan Franzen is to know – like a Star Trek crew member facing off against some alien mind-entity – that you have encountered an intelligence indubitably greater than your own. In The Corrections there are times when Franzenâ...
The Comedians by Trevor Griffiths @ The Lyric Theatre, London
It was a bold move for the Lyric to resurrect this old warhorse which, though electrifying in its day, now risks being dismissed as a period piece. When Trevor Griffiths wrote The Comedians in 1975, the ideological battle lines were clearly drawn:...
Colourmusic – ‘Yes!’ (Memphis Industries)
The new single by Yorkshire/Oaklahoma cult collective Colourmusic is glorious – as is the genius video, which features random acts of triumphant, therapeutic air-punching  in the recession-scarred Bible belt. All together now: Love the machine! ...
Warpaint – ‘Stars’
This music video, shot by Adam Harding in the ashes of the Angeles National Forest, is a thing of beauty. The fact that it combines girls kissing with dreamy ethereal light-painting and reverse slow-motion fireworks does it no harm at all. Said girls...
