MAILBOX HAVE YOUR SAY!
WEB-O-SPHERE DIGITAL DISPATCHES FOR THE TECHNOPHOBIC
We love a good verbal skirmish on list.co.uk, so our eyes lit up when we saw a suitably handbags-at- dawn exchange about The Last Word Saloon in Stockbridge. The Infidel (we suspect that’s an assumed name) complained of ‘dark and dingy’ lighting, among other things: ‘I appreciate the need to set up some atmosphere but I like to see my drinks, be able to read a menu and find my way to the toilet between the furniture.’ Champagne TasteBeerBudget (definitely a real name) hit back with the wonderfully catty, ‘This is not a place for those older people who forgot their torch and glasses but we’re sure Wetherspoon’s is superbly lit.’ Miaow.
Over at the @ListFilms Twitter, the back-and-forth was a bit more civil – but then, it’s hard to get all angsty about soda pop. #FizzyFilms was the hashtag inspired by @paulcgallagher’s Coke Zero Dark Thirsty, followed up by @davidbishop’s Run
BREAKING/BAD Re: Movie 43 (●●●●●)
Boundaries need to be broken! I’m glad this film is getting bad reviews, it only makes the fans who ‘get it’ love it even more! All you critics are just slowing the progress of a more ‘open minded’ society. We’re not stuck in the 50s anymore. Perversion and subversion are sorely lacking in today’s film and media – everything is all politically correct, censored or has a ‘moral’ story to it! That’s just BS!
I don’t care if this film is bad filmmaking, but it needs to be highly celebrated for its boundary pushing . . . I see this film as a slap in the face to anything that ‘controls’ us and pisses on fantasy community standards! Break down the establishment, everything is permitted, nothing is taboo! That’s how I live my life, it’s embarrassing so much of the Western mind-set is ‘controlled’ or dictated by the status quo . . . Enjoy your boring lives then :] Even co-director Peter Farrelly states, ‘You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.’ Comments posted by sonny on list.co.uk
Cola Run and @Willshaw Drivel’s Do the Sprite Thing. We felt our own submission – The Thirty-Nine Schweppes – was respectable enough.
Elsewhere online, we stumbled across a couple of galleries for the 2013 Sony Photography Awards, including Rob Van Thienen’s brilliant greyhound pic. Less high-brow were the galleries of parodies that sprung up following Faber’s new ‘chick- lit’ edition of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. (Niki Boyle)
THE QUESTION
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKSHOP? We ask the question, you give the answer. Join in on Twitter @thelistmagazine and Facebook
R Harper Weir Voltaire & Rousseau. @albachick Have you had a look at Bookpoint in Dunoon? We still have a great active local bookshop. Saved by Mike and Dinah. Thanks to them.
Elin Cath Plan B Books, Glasgow. @sailsanachos Armchair Books, incredible. Last time I went was there for hours chatting and drinking wine with the eccentric but lovely owner.
DementedBonxie Tam’s bookshop in Stromness, #Orkney Stromness Books and Prints. The one off drive in bookshop.
Hand Press Print Looking Glass Books is small but perfectly formed. millaharju Southside Books at South Bridge! The owner is there all the time, and he’s always super helpful & knowledgeable.
Connie Smith Inkspot and Silverleaf Booksellers, Bo’ness of course.
John Cairns Ceilidh Place. Dorell Pirie Achins, Inverkirkaig, near Lochinver.
Laura Moodie Youngs Interesting Books, Shawlands. The Watermill, Aberfeldy.
Alex Fiennes Analogue, with Transreal and Golden Hare following closely, and Oxfam on South Clerk Street for a good source of picture books for little people . . . @tracygriffen @pulpfiction_ed are brilliant, and @WordPowerBooks and also @Lookingglassbks and definitely Elvis Shakespeare.
Katharine Douglas The Ullapool Bookshop, Quay Street, Ullapool.
2 THE LIST 21 Feb–21 Mar 2013
CONTRIBUTORS Publisher & General Editor
Robin Hodge Director Simon Dessain
EDITORIAL
Editor Gail Tolley
Deputy Editor Claire Sawers Assistant Editors
Henry Northmore, Allan Radcliffe,
Niki Boyle Senior Researcher
Kirstyn Smith Research
Alex Johnston, David Pollock, Murray Robertson, Fiona Shepherd, Charlotte Runcie, Jaclyn Arndt
SALES & MARKETING Media Sales Manager
Juliet Tweedie
Media Sales Executive Nicky Carter, Chris Knox,
Debbie Thomson Digital Sales Executive
Freya Cowan Digital Commercial
Manager Brendan Miles Sponsorship &
Promotions Manager
Sheri Friers
PRODUCTION Senior Designer Lucy Munro
Production Manager Simon Armin
Production Assistant
Hannah Graham
DIGITAL Web Editor Hamish Brown
Senior Developer Andy Carmichael Senior Designer Bruce Combe
Software Developer Iain McCusker
Digital Design Associate
Jen Devonshire
ADMINISTRATION Accounts Manager
Sarah Reddie Office Manager Amy Russell
SECTION EDITORS Around Town/LGBT
Lauren Mayberry Books Kirsty Logan Clubs/Staying In Henry Northmore
Comedy Brian Donaldson Dance/Kids Kelly Apter Food & Drink Donald Reid Film Gail Tolley
Music/Shopping Claire Sawers
News Anna Millar Theatre/Visual Art
Allan Radcliffe
Published by The List Ltd
HEAD OFFICE: 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE Tel: 0131 550 3050, Fax: 0131 557 8500,
list.co.uk, email editor@list.co.uk GLASGOW OFFICE: at the CCA,
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Tel: 0141 332 9929, glasgow@list.co.uk
ISSN: 0959 - 1915
©2013 The List Ltd. Reproduction in whole or in part is forbidden without the written
permission of the publishers. The List does not accept responsibility for unsolicited material. The List provides this content in good faith but no guarantee or representation is given that the
content is accurate, complete or up-to-date. Use of magazine content is at your own risk. Printed by Acorn Web Offset Ltd, W.Yorkshire.
Subscriptions: 30 issues UK £30