BANISHING BOREDOM
Bloggery on music, books, films, travel, wildlife and dark matters.
Notes on the Late Leonard Cohen and Meeting Him in Montreal
Before I was born my mom used to go and see Leonard Cohen do poetry readings in Montreal in the late 1950s. So I grew up with his novels and poetry collections on our bookshelves. She did not listen to his music though, so that epiphany had to wait until 1985 when I’d...
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Comical Crime Caper Set in Hollywood by Timothy Hallinan
The fifth book in the Junior Bender Mystery series brings together a compelling a cast of characters in a Hollywood thriller by Timothy Hallinan, writes Jim Algie in this review from Bangkok 101 magazine. Fans of Thailand-based novels will know the name Timothy...
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My Close Encounters with Rock Stars Part 1: Joe Strummer
Whether on stage or on the street the late Joe Strummer took great pains to portray himself as an everyman of the people. In person he was very much the same, writes author and former punk musician, Jim Algie. After producing the Pogues’ album Hells’ Ditch the former...
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Apunkalypse Now and Then: Jim Algie Will Spin Punk DJ set at WTF
Author and former punk rock musician Jim Algie will be spinning a tribute to the genre’s resilience and enduring influence at the WTF Bar and Gallery in Bangkok on Friday, March 30. Starting at 9pm, the DJ set will commence with the keystones of punk from 1976, like...
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The Complete and Uncensored Doug Stanhope Interview from Bangkok 101 magazine
With a world tour in progress, a new memoir in bookstores, and celebrity fans like Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson doing PR for him, Doug Stanhope is on a winning streak that will see him come to Bangkok for the first time ever to mix up a 50-proof highball of black...
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New Expanded Paperback Edition of On the Night Joey Ramone Died
February 19, 2018, Bangkok – Riffing on music history, literature and his own experiences as a musician, Jim Algie’s new book, On the Night Joey Ramone Died: Tales of Rock and Punk from Bangkok, New York, Cambodia and Norway (Magic Bullet Press, 2018), takes readers...
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