Enthusiastic But Mediocre: Edward Oculicz’ new-ish blog which I’ve been meaning to link for ages, because of the great idea he had of going round Europe comparing what’s in each country’s pop chart. Of course now I do link to […]

You’re either S.W.A.T. or you’re not. On this evidence, I’m not.
S.W.A.T., completing Colin Farrell’s journey of being good in bad films this year (Intermission excepted), is a film that does not really know how to proceed wi[…]

On page 335 of The Complete David Bowie, author Nicholas Pegg describes a release called 1966 as, ‘Yet another reissue of [the Pye singles and B-sides]. For mad people there was even a 12″ picture disc,’ which is fair enough, but i[…]

I find novels without dialogue relatively difficult to get through. This is possibly some kind of psychological block, my word is defined so much by conversation (and my banal contributions to it) that acres of prose on the page daunt me. This was po[…]

Ultrabeat – Pretty Green Eye 3
If Crystal Gale sang it with Autoharp by June Carter Cash the words would be prefect.
As it is, it reminds me of A Night at the Roxbury, which makes it just pathetic.
S Club 8 — Sundown 8
The absolute roboti[…]

Joe Brainard is known (if he is known at all) for his clever twists on Ernie Bushmillers Nacy (Nancy as a Boy, Nancy in Landscape, Nancy as a Drawing by Di vinci, Nancy as a de Kooning painting ad absurdum) and his assemblages with flowers and madonn[…]

The Worst Songwriter Of All Time?: ancient but very readable Slate piece, may well be of interest to Popular fans.[…]

I’m not a food snob but…
…Burger King XL bacon double cheeseburgers are absolutely foul. Following a couple of hours wobs shopping on oxford street yesterday I felt somewhat peckish and was drawn by the pretty colours into the BK ([…]

Somewhere along the line I want to write about the phenomenon that is (was perhaps) Ain’t it Cool News. In the meantime, and for want of reasons to laugh, a piece of gonzo reviewing of the new Lord Of The Rings films: Hobbit-Man: The King Retur[…]

 The EasyCinema Experience
In the exploded cross section of a US business district that is Milton Keynes, it stands out. Merely by virtue of painting its utilitarian structure a thoroughly unsuitable colour. Everything else in the new town is utilit[…]