Talent isn’t something to be taken for granted. It’s amazing what can be uncovered about someone or even oneself, once you accept you’re under construction and still making progress. Combined with personality and character it stays with you, as long as you hold on to it. Not to sound arrogant, […]

When I originally got into the Daily Mail, it was sort of by accident. I never bought the newspaper itself, so thankfully, I cannot list myself as a funder of tripe in times past. It was, however, one of the unrestricted news websites I could access at the workplace I […]

Miley Cyrus’ much talked about VMA performance: was it an independent 20 year old women challenging social boundaries or merely a naive young girl craving attention? Although I feel the drama surrounding Miley’s antics was a little over the top, it has raised an important question, why do female artists […]

Lonesome Jim is a little known indie gem by Steve Buscemi. It centres on perpetually depressed twenty-seven year old Jim (Casey Affleck) as returns to his small town home in Indiana after having failed as a Novelist in New York. What works well about Lonesome Jim is that Steve Buscemi […]

Like any highly-exclusive members only club, those who want in have to fit a particularly strict criteria – in this case, it involves talent, fame, sex, excess and death. Many musical enigmas have been inducted into the legendarily infamous ’27 Club’ over the past five decades, including the likes of […]

I’ve been somewhat of a lost cause ever since I got Sims 3 for the Xbox 360.  I’ve played it before of course, but now I used it as my chill-out time.  As a method of escape.  But it is possible to escape a little to much, and bemoan why […]

“The green landscape, the magnificent panorama and the view to the castle nearby inspires my imagination every time anew. The surrounding area of the village has a big influence on my writing and my books. Very often I am in the mood to go on a walk or to go […]

As little as ten years ago, photography was an art form practised only by those who were qualified or by those who fancied themselves artists within a photographic realm. Nowadays, photography is part of almost everyone’s life. With universally used websites such as Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, every photo […]