Histories Of Pop Music: I started this thread as an oblique way of asking whether a history of pop music is even possible. I think it is possible, though fraught with difficulty – for one thing I have no idea where it would start. When were the[…]

If television has taught us anything, it is not surely this: “Spiders revolt and terrify us”
Shape up Channel 5, I hope you are not going dumb on me all of a sudden![…]

At the last Club Freaky Trigger I played my Nuclear Doomsday set, a collection of atomic tat that drew heavily on a bunch of 40s and 50s MP3s I’d scarfed off a sharing site a year or two before. Now I have taken the chance to make an honest fil[…]

Bunk Bed Boys: you get the feeling the BBC don’t care for it too much. For the winner of their BBC talent sitcom writing contest you would think they would be trumping their new discovery. Instead they punt it out at 11:30pm on a Monday night, […]

how long is a piece of… Most science blogs I’ve scanned in the last few days are layman-unfriendly by virtue (= vice) of directing their angry passions – if any – OUT of the circled wagons (at stupid pseudo-scientists eg zzzzz[…]

Best TV acting ever
I’ve been saying for years that my favourite ever performance in a continuing series on TV is Andre Braugher as Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life On The Streets. I hadn’t seen it in ages, then I recently learnt that th[…]

Torque is The Fast and The Furious but with motorbikes. That is the kind of in depth criticism you come to Do You See? for. It is all you need to know if you are considering seeing it. It is not as good as The Fast And The Furious, but it is better t[…]

Sean Penn is an awful lot better in 21 Grams than he was in Mystic River. 21 Grams is a much better film than Clint’s too, with a theme which is not a million miles away from it. It is however less hamstrung with TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. Actuall[…]

Until this season I’ve always thought of him as an underachiever, silky skills wrapped in a sulky attitude. But he’s playing the football of his life. Loads of goals, and not simple tap-ins either. Barcelona need Ronaldinho just as much a[…]

Literary Gems
Journey to the Alcarria ‘ Camilo Jose Cela
In an age before travel writing imposed self-made obstacles and it was possible to explore the world without strapping a fridge to your leg or unicycling blindfolded across the Andes, the[…]