Ah, German Pop. One of those implied oxymorons. And if there were ever a band of oxymorons, it would be Alphaville. Racism is an ugly label, but surely Big In Japan is almost as explicit as Siouxie and The Banshee’s “A race of people shor[…]

I notice elsewhere, in my absence, some young scamp over on NYLPM has started a concept piece, some say think piece entitled the Alphabet Of Pop. Now no-one knows more than myself the beauty of lists, as my Week Of Wank and Breakfast Of Banality prov[…]

WHEN BRANES COLLIDE!
OK so the Big Bang maybe happened when two M-Branes banged into one another: and there’s another brane-bang on the way some time soon maybe. And at CERN currently they’re building a particle-accelerator big enough th[…]

DOGVILLE One of the more baffling criticisms levelled at Danish enfant terrible, Lars Von Trier (alongside charlatan, bully, brat, misogynist’) is the one about manipulation. Not because it’s untrue, far from it. This is a man who clai[…]

R.I.P. Tony Thompson
I don’t suppose too many of us are able to say an awful lot about what makes one drummer better than another – I’m certainly not. Still, I wanted to mark that probably my second favourite drummer ever (behind th[…]

mario merz ‘s art was alive, in its use of the fibonacci sequnces, in the chaotic rigour of his installations, in how they crawled and galloped over gallery walls and cellings, how they were claimed from daily life.
he started, or was one who […]

Decide for yourself. ‘The Theory of Everything’, called ‘The Elegant Universe’, in the US is available to watch online at PBS’s Nova site.[…]

A Prince amongst men: I saw those Richard Prince paintings when they were at Sadie Coles HQ in London earlier this year. I’m pretty sure I liked them: I can remember enjoying being in the space, I think I even went to the show twice. I can also[…]

OH NO! WE’RE ALL DOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!! Yes, Horizon is back on BBC2, and this time it’s serious. The conveyor belt might stop you know [insert generation game cuddly toy joke here]. I don’t know why they stopped calling it the gulf […]

Richard Prince-Nurse Paintings.
A nurse is a mother/whore combined in one women, who will clean up yr puke and give you a comfort handjob all in the same night & because they comfort acts of violence, acts of violence are mythologized against t[…]