I asked a simple question – nicked wholesale from Steve M on Poptimists -“What’s your favourite current song and how did you first hear it?”
Here are the answers I got. (more…)[…]

Chaka, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan
I love the cover of this single. Much experimentation with what was left of my childhood crayons convinced me it was a lot harder than it looked.
Chaka Khan let me rock you, let me rock you Chaka Khan
I knew […]

State Of Play makes a good fist of its convoluted conspiracy theory adaptation of the BBC series. Really. It lacks a special ooomph that a faithful adaptation often does, in attempting not to fuck up the original it shows a lack of willingness to exp[…]

he calls himself “seth edenbaum” and “d. ghirlandio” though i don’t think either is his name (her name? my instincts say no, but a mask is a mask is mask…); he may be an artist; this may just be a disguise
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(full menu: prawn-and-potato cakes, sugar-spiced salmon with “chinese” hot mustard, roast courgettes, sauteed leaks in balsamic vinegar)
(raspberries and chocolate cake and cream to follow)
The ask here was an easy-to-chew-and-swallow FA[…]

Mildred: What’re you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?
Going Underground is the aural equivalent of this quote from The Wild One. I’m not saying that Paul Weller is Marlon Brando, but Going Underground is cliched and as emp[…]