It’s A Kid’s World
I can’t say that Pete is being harsh on Police Academy (below) but I think it tells us something interesting about our childhood tastes and our relationship to them. My guess is that – like The Incredible Jo[…]

The IMDB doesn’t have Pauly Shore doing much since 2001 except playing “himself”, so it’s surprising to see that he hasn’t quite got a firm grip on the role during Cribs. It’s also surprising to see him on Cribs pe[…]

Like Ned, I can’t really find the time to go to the cinema these days. However, I also have real trouble finding time for DVDs. Last night I felt like watching Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975). Actually getting through its 178 minute[…]

THE JULIA LENNON THEORY
This is to assist people on TMFD where this has recently been brought up. Here are quotes from the nine occasions Sinkah has refered to this, with a brief commentary.
From :Why Can’t England produce competent drummers
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On Scientists and Statistics
 
“The Law of Large Numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America”
 
Of course this is only true if you make some truly bizarre assumptions, like only one p[…]

Last nights horror TV battle. Five: Aliens. Chest bursting, acid blooded, shiny penile biolologically unlikely* horrors did battle with:
Channel 4: 101 Embarrassing Sexual Accidents. Like 101 Things Removed From The Human Body this was another jokey […]

Fantastic stuff
 
“… according to a 1997 U.S. News and World Report study on who Americans believe are most likely to go to heaven, 52 percent said Bill Clinton, 60 percent thought Princess Diana, 65 percent chose Michael Jordan and […]

Into The Valley Of Tat
Continuing NYLPM’s warts-and-all look at the sordid easy-come easy-go life of that modern pariah, The Downloader.
ALCAZAR – “Dancefloor Docusoap”: In Europe Alcazar are treated as living gods and no wond[…]

Franz Ferdinand’s Car
The material remains of my childhood library rest in a dank loft in my parents’ garage. Whenever I visit, I rummage. My favourite book (as a kid) was a Pan paperback called Stranger than Science. Last month I found[…]

On the Buses
I went to the 50th Birthday Bash for the Routemaster at Finsbury Park on Sunday. I say ‘went’, but for the record, I popped in on my way to Tescos rather than planned my day around a visit to see the buses.

I like routemast[…]