SODA STEREO — Dynamo
Part of the joy of my recent trip to Venezuela was the chance to exchange CDRs with a good friend down there (thanks again Miggie!) and among the goodies I received were three efforts by Soda Stereo, one of those bands I kn[…]

OWL. Is this Science or Engineering then?[…]

Surf entrepreneurs take note: I can’t get too worked up over a degree in surfing being available – hey, if you want one it’s your student loan repayments – but the reasons for offering one seem disingenuous. Surf graduates wil[…]

I recorded then watched Channel 4’s ‘X Rated: The Pop Videos They Tried to Ban’ the other day, and spent much of it’s duration begging Jayne Middlemiss (unfair to single her out, and hardly new to pick on TV talking heads but […]

yes yes but can he write?:
For years I have loved almost everything abt Alexander Cockburn’s The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys and Encounters, 1987-1994, from the cover inwards: it’s kind of a blog, actually – snippets of pieces pu[…]

NYLPM in “cynical” claim!

According to today’s Guardian, the coincidence of “Dry Your Eyes” and Euro 2004 (as mentioned repeatedly round here) was “a fluke”. “I’d like to claim genius, that we sa[…]

A little bitter, a little sweet, that’s how he likes his life to be: being a Marc Almond fan has actually been good fun over these many years now…half my life, I think, more if you count hearing That Soft Cell Song from an early age. St[…]

ON GETTING A LIFE:
one of the funnier and/or more charming aspects of the respectabilisation of political blogs in the US over the past three-to-five months has been the fact that a. a whole bunch got invited to (and given fairly generous treatment […]

On Do You See they’re having a pleasant little chat about childhood and film, as set off by Police Academy gaining a place in the world’s first scientifically-based Top 100 Films Ever ever.
Now I’m so little of a film buff that fi[…]

There aren’t many films that slip in an advert for their own DVD during the running of the film. Even more rare is this advert coming whilst the actor playing the lead character is comparing his portrayal to the real live person his character i[…]