JOSS STONE – Fell in Love With A Boy
Tori Amos – Smells Like Teen Spirit. Harsh? But fair.[…]

Split screen has been around for years but when did it stop being arty-n-clever and just become part of the routine grammar of the TV documentary? It was used in BBC2’s The Week that Shook The World: The Last Days of Hitler and it was used in t[…]

As a licencee you need to pass a test. Never fear, as a multiple choice ragbag of fifty facts about pubs, you are likely to get them right if you have ever been in a pub up to closing time. One of the slightly more arcane parts however is the alcohol[…]

There are no decent pubs in Clapham. It is a given. That is okay, generally the denizens of Clapham have no need for decent pubs, considering the amount of trade many of the overcrowded and unpleasant bars do. Wander away from Clapham however, say we[…]

I’m delighted to see one of my favourite pieces of football writing reappear on the web. It’s a piece by my friend Alan Crockford on the birth of his daughter (it runs down the right hand side of the page, under the heading which begins &[…]

Petites Couperes has ominous music, constantly hinting that something terrible is going to happen. In many ways something terrible does happen, namely the film. But that is too glib a dismissal of what is a pretty entertaining if pretty vapid movie. […]

Formicophilia is a fetish involving having bugs and worms crawling all over one’s body. For some reason, the few case histories concerning this have been reports from predominantly Buddhist countries. Perhaps investing all my savings in export[…]

Warrant – Cherry Pie
It’s kind of like being one of the best dinosaurs ever, and then a comet hits you.
Warrant were the last great pre-grunge cock-rock, hair metal bands, and combined all the best elements of luminaries such as Poison, […]

(More films I saw two months ago). If The Italian Job 2003 tells us one thing, it is that the new Mini is not a patch on the old one. They should never have put an old Mini in the first half of this film, it makes the new ones look clunky. The other […]

The country music station plays soft/
But there’s nothing really nothing to turn of
Dylan, Visions of Johanna
There are two country stations in Edmonton, and both of them tell us something about the way chart country is moving as a genre. Abo[…]