Watching TV while you’re on the phone: my friend AB lives in Toronto, and when she calls three or four times a year, we tend to talk for hours. So she’s describing Matthew Barney’s new Cremaster movie, and whether the film Seabiscui[…]

Finally, proof that the long awaited move from Highbury to Ashburton Grove IS going ahead, the “Hollywood Kebab” opposite Holloway Road Tube has changed it’s name to “The Arsenal Cafe”. Rumours that London Metropolitan […]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
(Sorry for the delay there, things can get away from you! Onward.)
ALIEN
Commentator: Ridley Scott
A veddy veddy British English speaker is Ridley Scott. But that’s a bit unfair, that’s more American stereotyping and h[…]

The Proclaimers — The BBC Sessions
No music lover needing to keep in with the latest fads can afford to miss the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. Yesterday morning, for instance, they turned their thoughts to the erudite phenomenon of British p[…]

JANET JACKSON – “Runaway”
Everyone has a “dreary day” song; something that gets played on those days when you’re feeling down or slightly under the weather and you need a pick-me-up. This is one of the few songs J[…]

I love the British Museum, and go there a lot (it’s a five minute walk from work, a fine lunchtime diversion). But it does annoy me too. They closed the Japanese gallery a couple of months back, in favour of some more offices. I was told that i[…]

I was listening to Ultravox just before I downloaded this and imagine my glee when Pink’s new single starts with a hyper-authentic back-to-’81 tak-tak-tak bass sound. ‘Glee!’ I thought, ‘This is going to be like a Girls […]

I don’t think the Star Wars drought (presumably dating from Jedi Knight, the high-water mark for FPSs before Half-Life), lasted quite as long as Magnus does. The 2001 PS2 game Starfighter was a fine space fighter game, in the tradition of their[…]

What’s Wrong And What To Do About It is a weblog and a rather good one (it reminds me a bit of the long lost Blue Lines but a bit cheekier – I particularly liked the “Let’s Move Christmas” entry). More importantly though[…]

I didn’t enjoy Egg’s return in Teachers. A poor episode with the soundtrack compiler asleep in the corner ‘ I think I counted five or six Dandy Warhols tracks. The resonance between Teachers and DWs is intersting ‘ both seem t[…]