If you should find yourself in Liverpool, and in posession of a thirst, can I please recommend  this pub. My head hurts, btw.[…]

Chips, cheese, gravy: what’s not to like?
 
For all London-based or visiting fans of Canadian cuisine not involving moose steaks, the Lyceum Tavern on the Strand serves poutine (attempted to post a picture, am fule and cannot make it […]

Tatquest 2004
I for one am delighted that we’re now living in the era of post-cool and in this spirit I continue my warts-and-all ‘download diary’ from yesterday.
THE GRID – “Swamp Thing”: some hole in history has […]

FT Top 100 Films
59: DEBBIE DOES DALLAS 
  
Anthony Easton says:
 
Debbie Does Dallas is happy. The blondes are happy, the people fucking the blondes are happy, the sunlight is happy, and the green grass is happy. Even with t[…]

Chuck Klosterman vs The Olympics: I’m guessing the coverage of the Olympics in America is very different to its coverage here. In Britain, where the only thing medal hopes usually end up beating is medal experiences, the very joy of the Olympic[…]

Still no token jazz: The Popjustice Twenty Quid Singles Prize offers its alternative to the Mercury folderol. Both lists feel a bit disappointing, to be honest.[…]

Is it the Mercury Music Prize Shortlist?
Or is it the line up at a one day inner city festival?
You decide:
 
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Jamelia[…]

Do you flick or swat?[…]

PUB NUTTER WATCH
 
The Calthorpe Arms. 4pm. Sunday. I go to the bar to get some more of the lovely Young’s Summer Zest. Whilst at the bar I am complimented on the beauty of my daughter. The problem? I do not have a daughter.
 
Initial[…]

Anthony Mann — Preamble I was about to do my first post on Anthony Mann’s noirs, when I came across something startling on the interweb. Mann’s noirs, made as B-pictures in the late 1940s,  are less well known than his Westerns[…]