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  • DVD review: Soul Power

    DVD review: Soul Power

    7th December 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    If the eyes of the world were on Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa, in October 1974 they were, perhaps understandably, focused more keenly on Muhammad Ali’s world heavyweight title challenge against the indomitable human wrecking ball, George Foreman - a fight for which The Greatest displayed his characteristic bombast and preternatural confidence but which many educated observers feared might end in tragedy for the Louisville Lip - than on the three-night music...

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  • A Yearning for Creativity, Or Why We Should All Embrace a Little Madness

    A Yearning for Creativity, Or Why We Should All Embrace a Little Madness

    20th November 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” (Nikos Kazantzakis)

    “There is no genius free from some tincture of madness” (Seneca)

    Three things this week made me think extensively about creativity. Its importance, or its absence, today feels more relevant than ever among the deluge of numbing sequels, remakes and imitations that congest our screens and airwaves. They may seem a tangential trio...

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  • What it Takes to be Great

    What it Takes to be Great

    9th October 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this


    “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” – Sun Tzu
    On November 14, 1966, in the first defense of his heavyweight crown on American soil since declaring, “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Congs”, Muhammad Ali climbed through the ropes against the hard-hitting heavyweight, Cleveland Williams, a man with a bullet in his stomach and iron in his fists. With 65 wins from 71 professional bouts,...

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Nick Clarke

Nick Clarke

Working in advertising, writing for a number of national newspaper and magazine titles and currently clawing his way through his PhD in film, Nick has nurtured a passion for media and the arts for over a decade. He tries not to take himself too seriously but finds it difficult. As such he harbours the faintly ridiculous belief that one- day he will write a definitive, universally lauded book on a subject that he thinks he knows something about. Given that he is fanatical about Soul music, 1970s cinema and boxing, it might be about one of those. Given that he also is very indecisive and non-committal it also might not be.