WHO’S DONE WHAT
REALCLASSIC spluttered and chuntered into action again this month with Rowena and Frank (aka the Cosmic Bike Co Ltd) bolting together hand-crafted components from folk just like you. The splendid sorts at Horncastle do all the tough stuff in the design, admin and production depts, with Mike Baumber and Libby Fincham putting words and pics on paper
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THIS MONTH we’ve been reading Serpents In The City (an amazingly timely exploration of political corruption and media manipulation); Spy On Spy (a somewhat silly WW2 espionage adventure); Livia Lone (vengeful female assassin rides Ducati shock); The Ice Lands (literary weirdness in Icelandic isolation); Moskva, by Jack Grimwood (seriously good novel set in mid-80s Russia) and Night Wolves, by Friedrich Neznansky (excellent police procedural set in the early post-Soviet Russian era).
MEANWHILE AT THE MOVIES we had a hoot with Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch (early Johnny Depp western) but thought Coffee and Cigarettes was self-indulgent luvvie nonsense; were entranced by Arrival (spot the wormhole aliens from DS9!); ditched out of The Fall and Vikings after two episodes apiece (life’s too short), but found box-set heaven in the form of Preacher…
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