OMD – Romance of the Telescope
With Kelly O currently ripping Visage’s Fade to Grey* in another fun/clumsy (ymmv) stab at the corpse of electro-pop, it was pure chance that I was reminded this week of another of my electro-pop heroes: Orc[…]

Just a brief post right now about this book, which I truly think is one of the best books about music ever, though my recent reread of it is enabling me to catch assumptions and potential flaws more than I noticed in the past. Nonetheless, I think t[…]

And so farewell then, Celebrity Wrestling. We barely knew (watched) you. Except a bizarre one minute sgment where Jenni Powell was tethered to Fatima Whitbread in a turquoise gimp mask and made to run around the ring hitting some balls.[…]

We were caught in a trap.
We could not walk out.
But it was nothing to do with love, baby. Just that fucking Federal Agent Elvis Presley, who believed that myself and Crispian had the secret to hyper-advanced alien technology in our brains. Surely th[…]

the intriguing thing abt my post-punk pal mark k-punk is that his “don’t vote it only encourages em” hippyoid disenchantment combines with slightly rear-view morleyism (objects in mirror appear closer than they are!!) and EXCELLENT […]

There was a moment when I thought I would not actually get to see this heartwarming tale of a ladies stuffing her belly with 62 pellets of cocaine and her adventures in that there Noo Yoick.Part of me thought the whole thing would be all too depressi[…]

FIREFOX DOWN
Come on, if you are going to call your free open source browser that, you can only expect one outcome.
I wonder if another company is making some “off book” payments to hackers to find flaws in Firefox. Maybe Unigate Dairies.[…]

There is nothing wrong with Thames Tandoori. I want to say that here and now. That said, it is probably the curry house I have been to most regularly over the last five years. It is a pretty standard tandoori house really, a bit pricey perhaps but th[…]

Actually it’s a post I made on a brobdignagian R-Thread on ILM with the Wedge-related part in bold:
“In Seattle Dave Q said that ‘ordinary people’ are mostly rockist. I think this is true once you’ve started self-identif[…]

Goes to FAQ U. I shall not add to the literal acres, and acres of print which will appear by the end of this week in explaining how this comedy replacement for Channel 4’s 11 O’Clock Show* is the biggest insult ever committed on the Briti[…]