THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 13 December (12%-13%) – Champagne
I’m sure there are lots of good reasons why champagne has become so set as an international festive drink, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that its mass p[…]

Art I’ve only heard about #1: Graeme Millar ‘ Linked
Linked is sound art, of a kind. Apparently you borrow a receiver device somewhere deep in the East London ‘ Essex borders and at various points along a route the device will pick[…]

I’m totally serious about the moisturising thing. It’s only been a few days, but one thing has become apparent. Despite the Nivea packaging saying that it is “odour neutral” this is obviously a complete lie ‘ as with mos[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 12th December (11%-12%): Westvleteren 12 11.3%
In ye olden days (actually often not that olden but this is myth, give me a chance), ye godly Belgian Trappist monks took inspiration from the Lord and brewed heave[…]

Of course a REAL mathematician could tell what made this number special just by looking at it[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 11th December (10%-11%): White Zinfandel
Its a red grape. But its a white wine (well pink – maybe even rose). WOW!
That is not what I am going to be talking about here. If you want tasting notes there are[…]

The history of quiffs in pop is a surprisingly long one, possibly the fault of Elvis Presley an apparently noted rock’n’roll singer. (Noted by me for future appearances here). And whilst it is a singularly ridiculous ‘do, no-one wor[…]

Enthusiastic But Mediocre: Edward Oculicz’ new-ish blog which I’ve been meaning to link for ages, because of the great idea he had of going round Europe comparing what’s in each country’s pop chart. Of course now I do link to […]

You’re either S.W.A.T. or you’re not. On this evidence, I’m not.
S.W.A.T., completing Colin Farrell’s journey of being good in bad films this year (Intermission excepted), is a film that does not really know how to proceed wi[…]

On page 335 of The Complete David Bowie, author Nicholas Pegg describes a release called 1966 as, ‘Yet another reissue of [the Pye singles and B-sides]. For mad people there was even a 12″ picture disc,’ which is fair enough, but i[…]