The Lynch Report: Rocked to the foundations, but stronger for it
Make no mistake, ‘The House That Jack Built’ is a testing film, but oh so artistically brilliant
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The Lynch Report | All hail the Hoyle and Hit parade
In the merry months of April and May, two performance festivals shook our Copenhagen: Neo-Reality, a series of alternative burlesque cabarets that were hosted by the English artist David Hoyle and produced by Warehouse 9, and Hitparade, a festival of international performance art, curated by Henrik Vestergaard Friis and Liveart.dk. Both events brought necessary shots…
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The Lynch Report | Who took my milk?
One day when I was a young boy, I went to school only to discover that the free milk had been taken away. Once home, I asked my mother why this was. Her response? “Thatcher, the milk snatcher”. What was a Thatcher, I thought? My young science-fiction and horror movie-fuelled mind imagined a one-eyed, 12-armed…
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The Lynch Report | How to bait a Jehova’s Witness
I have been spending a lot of time in airports recently. I don’t like it, but I used to love it. From 1990 to 2000, I travelled to Europe from Australasia twice a year and toured within both continents extensively. I know most European airports intimately. I enjoyed taking the earliest flight or finding the…
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The Lynch Report | The CPR safety net
I am writing this while on tour and teaching street kids in southern India with my theatre company. The food is exquisite, the culture magnificent and the heat, I add with some sadistic pleasure for all you back in Copenhagen, is divine. Despite India’s beauty, and the ridiculously happy street kids I am currently teaching,…
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The Lynch Report | On nostalgia, fighting and reach-arounds
There are three things that produce in me a strong sense of nostalgia: alcohol, getting into a fight and seeing a James Bond film. Last week, during a mates’ night out to watch the film ‘Skyfall’, I was allowed the indulgence in all three. The purpose of my going to see ‘Skyfall’, apart from giving…
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The Lynch Report | Kate and her feminist breasts
When the Duchess of Cambridge – née Kate Middleton – was photographed topless with the Hubble Telescope from a road in the south of France this past August, it prompted the Danish editor-in-chief of the intellectual, high-class media journal Se og Hør to state that Kate herself must accept some responsibility for “willingly revealing her…
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The Lynch Report | First impressions
As a foreigner, what was your first impression of Denmark? What were your thoughts, feelings and expectations? My first memory was of the flickering light and shadows that played about the train as it trundled under and through central Copenhagen. It was a wet September night and I had arrived here for love and to…
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The Lynch Report | The Olympics, my summerhouse and a niggling doubt
In its valiant attempt to impersonate a real summer, our Danish August is currently impressing and forging a path to the first of September when, come rain or shine, the Danes will don their autumnal uniform of warm brown or black leather jackets, trousers and hats. Until the conformity of that September day,…
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The Lynch Report | How to piss off a Dane (not)
I don’t like football. I do like boxing. I sat through this year’s Champions League final at a Copenhagen sports bar in order to see Mikkel Kessler fight Allan Green. I like Kessler because he is a good if not great boxer. I also like him because in a country where getting into a fight…
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The Lynch Report | Dreyer’s artistic perseverance
A week ago I sat in the manager’s office of the Dagmar Cinema in Copenhagen. I was giving the last performance notes before the premiere of a show for the CPH:PIX film festival. There were three actors in the meeting: Charlotte Munck of ‘Anna Pihl’ fame, Bo Madvig from the dance world, and the 76-year-old…
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The Lynch Report | Danish sex, Jack Daniels and equality
“These girls just use me,” said my new friend of 42 seconds. “They treat me like a piece of meat.” So spoke the latest victim of the great Danish female sex drive, a feeling-sorry-for-himself, English 25-year-old bent over a Jack Daniels shot glass in a bar in Nørrebro. After three months of life and…