I’m in an internet café, and its nearing one and this place is a buck an hour, so there are no head phones, but they have Kaaza?so I am listening to Tim McGraw, in an attempt to remember what else I want to put on a list of contempary chart co[…]

throwing a folding chair into the stands during an altercation between Oakland A’s fans and the Texas bullpen. The woman who got her nose broken by the chair is married to one of the main hecklers. Officially, of course, I disagree with this ac[…]

free culture now or sooncome famine!
i think i had an argt or two in a k-punk comments column abt this, back at the start of the summer: i’m a bit sad the “virtual commons” meme is being declaimed by others as i wanted to COPYRIGHT[…]

FT Top 100 Films
31: INFERNAL AFFAIRS
This is the third time this year I have talked about Infernal Affairs, the first being when it came out here, and the second being about its sequel. And looking at those two reviews I find myself also considering[…]

current chart(ish) popgothnoise as subliminal politix
(i haf only skimmed this and am anyway currently so under-the-gun that i find world affairs soothing forsooth, so my opinion is worth little prob)[…]

No excuse at all
I know it’s reknowned as a library, but surely this is taking things a bit far. Songsheets? In full colour .pdf format? Blimey… This does prove, quite conclusively though, that arsenal fans do have the worst chants eve[…]

I did not know the ending to Open Water, so after reading Pete’s post I went to the interweb to find out. This led me to this hugely useful site, old news to most of you I’m sure but for me one more handy way to keep up with films I&#8217[…]

Open Water aka The Blair Jaws Project (a joke made by every other reviewer save none). A nice little suspense thriller which proves yet again the Texas Chainsaw Massacre thesis that the crapper the cinematography looks, the more real the scenario see[…]

Wrexham? Damn near killed them!
Hot on the heels of Hearts ground woes comes the saga at Wrexham.
The background can be found on the excellent Red Passion site, which covers these revelations from the club chief executive (and former Lincoln City Cha[…]

Should club nights* have ‘standards’?
There are two schools of thought on this. One says that no, they shouldn’t – it makes good records turn stale and means the evening becomes predictable. My feeling is somewhat different. I[…]