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FT Top 100 Films 26: JAMON JAMON
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— 21 Sep 2004 Pete Baran Comment

FT Top 100 Films
26: JAMON JAMON
You’ve got to love any director called Bigas Lunas. It promises a level on nutsiness you just don’t get from people called John Sayles, George Lucas or John Waters. Perhaps that’s why I like John Wat[…]

the revolution devours its own children pt 234523
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— 21 Sep 2004 mark sinker Comment

the revolution devours its own children pt 234523

M&S just started a new pre-cooked dinners line, “a delicious new range of dishes inspired by modern pub meals” —> and it’s called GASTROPUB, and i’m not going to r[…]

Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic
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— 21 Sep 2004 Tom 1 comment

Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic (see below) prompts this vital question over at I Love Comics. I’d never really given it much thought before but it seems odd that there was never a Beatles comic, or a Bay City Rollers comic, or a Mo[…]

The sport on TV most often in my boyhood was Chess.
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— 21 Sep 2004 Tom Comment

The sport on TV most often in my boyhood was Chess. My Dad used to play Chess – pretty well, too, he won his club tournament 11 times in a row and they had a special rose bowl made after the tenth, so when he finally lost the cup he’d hav[…]

Ugh ugh ugh
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— 21 Sep 2004 Sarah Comment

Ugh ugh ugh wine described in wine list menu of the Kings Arms as having “a creamy mouthfeel”!!! Ugh ugh!![…]

Vince Vaughn is a funny one
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— 21 Sep 2004 Pete Baran Comment

Or, to be more precise, is not a funny one. It strikes me of all that “gang” mentioned last week when I talked about Anchorman, he is the only one who is not really a comedian. Or at least did not start that way (the Wilson brothers may b[…]

LONDON BRIDGE IN MICKEY TAKING SHOCKER
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— 21 Sep 2004 Sarah Comment

LONDON BRIDGE IN MICKEY TAKING SHOCKER: Whilst standing in a bleary haze on platform 6 waiting for the train to Charing Cross (it’s these details that make or BREAK! a successful blogger, I tell yer) I look up and see a picture of a RAM in a Ge[…]

The Transpacific Flight to New Zealand (and back again)
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— 21 Sep 2004 Ned Raggett Comment

The Transpacific Flight to New Zealand (and back again)
The amount of hectic work I’m doing this week — to be expected, it fits in with the start of the school year and all — perhaps unsurprisingly puts me in mind of some of my best[…]

David Thomson says
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— 20 Sep 2004 HKM Comment

David Thomson says it might be a fault of his that he can’t find too much enthusiasm for Ken Loach, despite his obvious merits, and the same no doubt extends to the Great British public at large, or certainly to me. In a certain pessimistic per[…]

RIP Michael Donaghy
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— 20 Sep 2004 Archel Comment

RIP Michael Donaghy. Far far too soon.[…]

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