Step in the Arrhenius: the cartoon wall Pete links to reminds me of a couple of amazing Lars Arrhenius pieces I’ve seen over the last year or two: his terrific A-Z (at Peer) which had one of those flow-diagram comic art thing laid out across th[…]

What a difference a beat makes! Both of these tracks are channelling the spirit of ’81 Tim Hopkins was talking about below – a kind of wired weakness, a sussed vulnerability, a stumble into hoped excitement – I was wondering if the guy on t[…]

Golborne Road in West London is a variety-show of foods. Portuganese pastries, Carribbean food stalls, Moroccan restaurants of course, and there’s even “Cockneys” just round the corner on Portobello Road selling cheap salty-mutton p[…]

A few additional points to Pete’s comments on That’ll Teach ‘Em. First – it was hardly overlooked by viewers and did amazingly well in the ratings, in the top 2 of C4’s programmes, far outstripping the likes of Teachers.[…]

Inspired by ‘The Man Who Ate Everything’ (which is pretty much inspiring every aspect of my life at the moment, more on which later) I ventured into Baby Sainsbury’s last night determined to cook myself something. Sainsbury’s […]

Unpacking My Library Dept.: Last year I started buying a lot of books again for the first time since I was 16. The next trick is finishing some of them. My shelves are stuffed with admissions of defeat: maybe one time in four I’ve lasted until […]

I did not go to any of the seminars at ComICA – the comics season at the ICa in late July, but whilst I was seeing a film there I did have a moment to peruse the large comic wall being drawn on the way to the bar. And some nice person has now p[…]

ILX is being as useless as the woman on the Orange Film Commission, so I’ll have to pose my thorny problem here. That’ll Teach Them – the overlooked* third of the current British television triumvirate of teacher based shows finishe[…]

Is there anyone who isn’t working with The Matrix now? Is there any way in which “Sleeping With The Light On” differs from a Matrix ballad anyway? Will The Matrix’ own record (ye gods) be the pop-rock answer to N.E.R.D.? Why d[…]

In case you hadn’t heard – TONIGHT is the third Freaky Trigger club night, at Parker Place, on Parker Street, off Kingsway, very near Holborn Tube, in London, from 6.30 until closing time. Come along if you’re at a loose end and say[…]