Archives – 2003 – August – 21  

Pop round-up
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You will no doubt be astonished to learn that in my search for pop perfection I download a lot of tat. None of it deserves a separate review, most of it is dribbly and half-arsed, but writing a round-up at least forces me to give it a second listen.
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My television has been banished indefinitely
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My television has been banished indefinitely to the spare room, due in no small part to Nissan Micra and their current advertising campaign. It has become clear that I’m not the only one whose teeth and fingernails start screaming in protest ev[…]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
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COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA
Commentators: John Carpenter, Kurt Russell
These two are notorious for, among other things, one of the looniest DVD commentaries ever, namely for their collaborative remake on The Thing, involving direc[…]

BUBBA SPARXXX — Jimmy Mathis
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Bubba Sparxxx’s earlier stuff wasn’t much to my ears, it was a case where a trademark Timbaland production didn’t work and the MCing was…well, was. But a song like this is already meta-swamp music, the type of thing that Nick[…]

There are actual times when I want to shout at the American tv powers that be
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There are actual times when I want to shout at the American tv powers that be, such as when I found out (earlier in the Summer) that there were plans to create an American version of Coupling for the masses here. Insanity! Apparently, the fact that o[…]

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