THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
88. Subway Sect – “Ambition”
Sarah says
What’s the matter, Vic? “I don’t write any words you get in rock songs…I like those words – that seem out of place in a rock song.” It&[…]

Plowing The Dark by Richard Powers
I was discussing spoilers yesterday with Anthony Easton. This was in the context of movie reviews, but it had been on my mind thinking about this novel that I had just finished. The main strand is of a bunch of hots[…]

Man U ultras’ anti-Glazer tactics – notably the revelation that “the group also claim to have a severed horses head” which they are waiting to unleash. For some reason the idea of this waiting neatly in someone’s freezer[…]

nick.K is dead
Holy shit.
An ILX thread.[…]

The Pazz and Jop 2004 poll is up. Go nuts.[…]

Gay Bar! I wanna take you to a GAY BAR! And what shall we drink in this gay bar? Well – why not…
Gay Beer
or possibly
Gay Wine
Reading these stories – especially the wine one – you might be forgiven for thinking that the marke[…]

BOBBY O
“I Cry for You”
This is in part an excuse to talk about the wonderful post on Mr. O and “German Girl” made by Ally over at the already coolest-thing-in-2005-English-language music criticism, ILMiXor. So go read that f[…]

Derbyshire and ID redux — just a quick followup to this earlier post on John Derbyshire’s frustrations with ID arguments and arguers. Presumably this will be his final word on the subject via the Corner blog, and it’s a pretty darn[…]

La Nina Santa (The Holy Girl) has had very good press, though very few of the reviews suggest you should drop everything and go see it. I know what they are getting at. It is a very slight film, which reminded me a lot My Summer Of Love in both theme[…]

LOOK AROUND YOU UPDATE: A truism in comedy/tv serials is you make the second episode your best. The first drags them in, the second cements the audience. And episode 2 of Look Around You was much better than the first, mainly due to the extraneous de[…]