Tyrie AspinallBlog 7: Big PigI was yanked awake by my phone alarm this morning with a terribly dry throat. I gave the snooze button a drunken slap to shut it up and…2 min read·Feb 8, 2021----
Tyrie AspinallBlog 5: Better Late Than NeverI’ve been reading “Sculpting in Time” by Andrie Tarkovsky recently and there’s a passage that I’m rather enamoured by. In his conclusion…3 min read·Jan 18, 2021----
Tyrie AspinallBlog 4: CoughThere’s a great round lump tucked below my right mandible; it found purchase in that white-red cal de sac where sick prospers. I feel a…1 min read·Jan 11, 2021----
Tyrie AspinallBlog 3: Hubris2020 screamed into existence with a myriad of trials and sacrifices. Empyrean fires ravaged the Australian landscape, the effluvia of…3 min read·Jan 4, 2021----
Tyrie AspinallBlog 2: Why Meditate?I was sitting in front of the screen combing through my mind for something to write about, when an oft played out drama erupted in front…4 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Tyrie AspinallBlog 1: Quitting my job in a recession2020 was that pang of shock that surges up your guts when you’re climbing a flight of stairs and you place your foot down for a step that…5 min read·Dec 21, 2020----
Tyrie AspinallBabylon (1980) Retrospective Review: “This is my country and it’s never been f#%!ing lovely”South London has never looked so bleak and Reggae has never sounded so pure in Franco Rosso’s take on the experience of Jamaican youths…5 min read·Aug 14, 2020----
Tyrie AspinallThe Fall (2020): A flash in the dark.Jonathan Glazer’s latest short film The Fall screened on BBC 4 to an unsuspecting audience; innocuously, like a jab from the ether. The…4 min read·Jul 22, 2020----
Tyrie AspinallDigital Dogmatism: Data collection and the way we watch films.In the age of the digital, of instant access and interconnectedness, data has become the most coveted of resources; a numerical zircon…4 min read·Jun 8, 2020----