Oh no.
One of the side effects of the first Band Aid single was that every tragedy had an associated charity single. There are two rationales for any charity single – raise awareness and raise money. In general it’s hard to get too upset […]

Explaining one of my new years resolutions the other day (to not fart in public places) there was a remark that this would be dangerous. Apparently said person thought the gasses would build up inside me and make me explode. The same person later sai[…]

Riding Giants proves more than many of last years cinema documentaries that as long as you get your structure right, you can make anything interesting. I am not someone who is vaguely interested in extreme sports, and surfings only boon in my life ha[…]

An OLD MAN and a WISE MAN are sitting on a bench.
WISE MAN: Tell me, Old Man, if you had one piece of advice to give young students, what would it be?
OLD MAN: I would tell them to be neither too proud or too ashamed of their music taste. The music y[…]

Judge for yourself as long as the link works. My immediate thought was “This reminds me of nothing so much as Siouxsie’s “Face to Face” song from the second Batman run through a squelchifier” crossed with Disco Tex&#821[…]

breaded fried cods roe
before his parkinsons made it a bit inadvisable for him to cook (ie many years ago now) my dad, who always did breakfast, would serve up the above as an occasional special breakfast treat – and as a result i always assum[…]

THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 100 SONGS OF ALL TIME
A Note on Methodology
You may be familiar with how these lists are compiled. You may not be. The theory is that people’s truest aesthetic preferences come out under the influence of some substance or[…]

A Low-Key Return For The INDIE AMNESTY
Here are the latest batch of INDIE AMNESTY items to be offered on eBay. A quick reminder of the premise of the indie amnesty – people give their shameful indie CDs to me to be put beyond use (i.e. sold on […]

There are a number of sequences in Enduring Love which were filmed right outside my office. They are some of the better parts of the film (my office gives it that extra gravitas I think). Its not a bad film on the whole, but does suffer from the enti[…]

The Marlborough Arms
The third pub on the Star Of David Pub Crawl was a rather depressing pub when we arrived, home of plenty of punters drinking on their own. A pub I have frequented quite a lot; it has never been cheap, and is often often over-full[…]