An interview with me about blogging. It’s a bit dry and grumpy because I did it in a rush at the end of work. There are interviews with other people too, all of whom write in Swedish: BIG UP THE SWEDISH BLOGOSPHERE! And of course the week after[…]

Lost in Translation (2nd bite): I kind of wish it had been set in space w. baffling aliens not tokyo in merely tokyan tokyans, cz you kept ending up thinking that the reason they are bored and lonely etc is they have no imagination jeez if *i* wz in […]

J’ck’ss >:0 :'(
The Independent has a little story I can’t find on the net – poss cz I don’t speak good Norwegian: ‘A 19-year-old man dressed a comic book character was killed when he was hit by a car in what app[…]

Entertaining to read Simon fessing up to not getting Kid Creole etc back in the day. One of the persistent curiosities of anglo-critical response to non-anglo music is the eternal threshold problem of the erm ‘Latin Tinge‘: Brit jazzbos a[…]

Best eBay Auction Ever. Did I win it? No. I got the end time wrong. IDIOT TOM.[…]

Google Stat Of The Week, #1 In A Series Etc Etc
FACTORY-MADE
“manufactured pop”: 9,310
“manufactured rock”: 464 (largely about landscaping, alas)
“manufactured soul”: 121
“manufactured dance”: 54
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“Trainspotting” used as metaphor for trainspotting shockah!
I don’t know if it won any actual real awards, but The Station Agent is/was a shoo-in for the Ghost World Memorial ‘Indiest Film in the History of Indie’ Cup. […]

Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296: I just caught myself congratulating myself for being late to a record – not only not hearing the Wiley record until it’s in the shops but mostly avoiding the web talk on it, so that the gorgeous, gorge[…]

Some ambitions seem so unlikely that they end up just being vague curiosities. For instance I always assumed there was some kind of vetting process for TV pop show audiences and that a fat bearded thirtysomething would fall well outside it. So it cam[…]

A Bird In The Hand was what Channel 4 called its biog of tragic emu-wielding funnyman Rod Hull. The show ran along standard tears-behind-the-laughter lines; what really divided the viewers was the question of whether Emu was funny. Alan and I voted a[…]