THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
92. Girls Aloud – “Love Machine”
There is one good thing, and one good thing only, about indie zine The Fly. It is free, and handily available for homeward bound tube reading from Victoria HMV.
This month is the[…]

Well done Stan Lee on getting your due from Marvel’s movie successes! Just be sure not to blow the money on any totally shit vanity projects for your star mates, eh?[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
93. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers – “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?”
Cis says:
I loved doo-wop when I was little. The black-and-white photographs on record covers, smiling boys in ill-fitting suits, close harmoni[…]

Joe Sacco watch your back. After allowing an admittedly sluggish time for your Sacco’s graphic novel journalism of Palestine to be diseminated, the Israeli’s strike back with HOMELAND: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

And […]

In La Porchetta on Saturday I reverted to type and had one of my favourite pizzas, Pizza Speck. It is a simple, crisp dough which has gorgonzola and speck ham on it. No tomato, nothing else. Quite salty truth be told. Not very vegetably.
And then it[…]

Day 11: So Lonely
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES

I awoke strung up on some sort of makeshift crucifix. Upon further examination it seemed to be constructed from a sun lounger and my wrists were bound by the elastic used to keep the cushions on. […]

OK Listen Up
There are only TWO days to go until Club Freaky Trigger’s special 00s night. This will be one of the best Club FTs ever and you are strongly recommended to come. It is, as usual, at the Chapel Bar in Islington. Fingers crossed we w[…]

Not being terribly well yesterday I wanted to curl up and watch some cinematic comfort food. I picked Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which I’d not seen since I was 13. It was interesting how different the film is from the version of the film I’[…]

I was hurt on Saturday, and could not explain why to myself. And then I worked it out. Good friend and TMFD editor Tim was reticent to talk about the football game we had both been to, down different ends, which was remarkably unlike him. At the time[…]

On Team America: World Police

Politics I: Any real ideology is eclipsed by the need to make things funny.
Politics II: If they were really evil republicans with an axe to grind, wouldn’t they attack people loved by the left and hated by the ri[…]