Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins

Blue or black?

Advantages: Great noir detective fiction
Disadvantages: None for me

Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins is down on his luck and worried about mortgage payments when he is offered a job as a private detective, investigating the disappearance of a white woman called Daphne. As Rawlins' employer, DeWitt Albright, believes that Daphne is hiding somewhere in Los Angeles' black district, Rawlins starts his investigation by speaking to some friends of his. One of them, Coretta, knows Daphne, and gives Rawlins some useful information, but when she is found bludgeoned to death the next day, Rawlins is the number one suspect. Can Rawlins avoid being charged for a murder he didn't commit and find out what happened to Daphne? Or is he involved in a bigger intrigue than he realised? Made back in 1995, this film seems even older than that because it is set back in the 1940s and is based on hardboiled detective fiction a la ...

sunmeilan 09.06.2008 · Read full review
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henry rollins - get in the van (collected journal)

Advantages: no real need to finish it in one go
Disadvantages: only for fanatics really

NOTE - this is a review of the book (although i believe it has been done as spoken word also.) henry rollins was the vocalist in black flag, possibly the most influential LA hardcore band, from 1981 until their dissolution in 1986. totally at odds with his warped stage persona, he was a fairly insular character, and so chose to keep a journal rather than interact with those around him, and what we have here are his collected entries from about 1983 onwards, along with whatever he can recall about the time prior to that. much like kurt cobain's journals, he didn't originally think this would be published, so nothing is held back (which does mean that there are a few passages which can pretty much just be ignored). he pisses and moans about his bandmates, fans, pretty much everyone he meets apart from ian mackaye (of fugazi, who was ...

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BLACK GOLD

Advantages: It's coffee
Disadvantages: Nothing special

Black Gold? No, this isn't a hard-hitting social commentary on the shameful history of the slave trade. Nor is it a whining moan about the revenue from the thick viscous stuff that flows from the North Sea down to London and vanishes quicker than WMD's in the Middle East. No, rather less contentious...possibly, the subject matter of this review is a coffee called Black Gold from those wonderfully altruistic people at Nescafe. Now I'm not going to get into an ethical debate about the merits (or lack of) concerning Nescafe's business practices. If you want to know more about that sort of thing, go and google! Me? I like coffee. But I'm not a coffee snob - it's not as if it's beer, right? Anyway, as long as it's a decent coffee, I don't give a roasted bean who makes it, or where, or when, or how. Or even why. As long as it ...

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