Look on our works… This confirms all my prejudices. Creators of the idea (I refuse to say “brand”) of “world” music ‘fess up: every record made to fit into that genre has been pants (which is not to mean that good […]

FT Top 100 Films
70: THE FIFTH ELEMENT
Anthony Easton Says:
Its a beautiful film, one of those sound and furies that signify nothing, i am not even sure it has a plot or even that the plot matters–its a series of sci fi set pieces, some of them[…]

Lazy Links For Idle Hands
Fat Planet – MP3 blog, wide-ranging like a (slightly) less pop-friendly Fluxblog.
This story made me think of Robin C.
“It’s a very sexy statement.”[…]

Where does it start, where does it begin?
So, the Euros finished with a Greek victory. Does this mean that the season has ended? Because if so, tell that to the Hibs players who started their inter-two bob cup campaign this weekend[…]

I am currently reading Gould’s Book Of Fish, by Richard Flanagan, which won the Commonwealth Prize for literature in 2002 (though Amazon suggest there was a version of it knocking about since 1998). A beguiling work, it puports to be a reweitte[…]

Ah, how I enjoyed it, what a beautiful game of football. I enjoyed it all the more for watching it with a couple of “this is how football should be played” merchants, defenders of the dangle, who didn’t understand how football could[…]

YES BUT, the Head of Steam on request will do you POUTINE! I.e; they will do you chips with CHEESE AND GRAVY! The barstaff seemed somewhat perplexed by our Canadian themed request on Friday night (whot, didn’t they KNOW it was Canada day that w[…]

ADDIS ADDENDUM
Much is said about how waiting stuff are put upon. Much is said about the terrible pay, conditions and hours with which they suffer. Yet I note below nothing has been said about the lack of basic ability of our initial waitress we had […]

Science, you’ve gone too far this time.[…]

Addis, Kings Cross: “Laid back service” but “great food” at this Ethopian place, according to web reports – OK, sounds fair enough, we have the whole evening after all. And the decor is just right – long couches, s[…]