Colm Prunty

Recent Posts

  • January 16, 2020

    It's Wet

    Yeah, it’s wet. I’ve managed to bike to work and back every time I’ve been in the office this year, but to be fair, it’s still January. I bought mudguards though, so at least when I get home I don’t have a vertical splatter of London’s roads up my back, bag and backside. Happily, I’m counterbalancing all this exercise by eating significant amount of bread and chips.

  • January 13, 2020

    Music of the Week - Jan 13

    Week two, here we go.

  • January 12, 2020

    Music Roundup 1

    A few words on my first Music of the Week.

  • January 07, 2020

    Glass (2019)

    Trying to pinpoint why this was unsatisfying, and I think it’s because they kind of screwed over Bruce Willis. He had spent Unbreakable coming to terms with being really really strong, finally accepting his fate that he was, in fact, a superhero. It remains probably M. Night’s best film. This one would arguably have been better without him, he didn’t change at all, other than a brief lull where he doubted his ability to be really really strong (nobody gave him a big thing to lift up). He was the same man at the end as at the beginning. There wasn’t even a growth beyond comic book framing, he still had water as a “weakness” (like the aliens in Signs, MNS must be very dehydrated). He even drowned unceremoniously in a puddle.

  • January 06, 2020

    Music of the Week - Jan 6

    I’ve thought a lot about this article by Will Sheff. The benefits of limitations, artificial or otherwise, appear to crop up in various places. So following that, I’m going to try to listen to two albums a week; one classic that I’ve never gotten around to, and one new thing. I’ll try my best to give each at least 8-10 listens, maybe even one where I’m not doing something else at the same time. Remember being a teenager when you’d just listen to music? Back when you had time to do things like that?