I went to London and all I got my parents was this nonexistent T-shirt — my dad’s been to London a few times, mostly on Navy business (the Navy over here regarding the UK as generally speaking a brilliant if tragically immobile aircraft c[…]

“KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!” — last night was the first night I ever saw Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in a theater, thanks to some bemusing local weekly film fest. Every other film I caught onscreen shortly after its […]

SECTION 25
From the Hip
I’ve had Section 25 CDs for a while now but it was only with the purchase of the Deus Ex Machina collection that I felt properly prompted to give everything an ear, disc by disc (at least the way LTM has them released). […]

FT Top 100 Films
48: TIME BANDITS
Okay. Confession time. I stole the Time Bandits script from Borehamwood library. It was a nice big hardback which had the entire script with plenty of on set photo’s and scrawlings on by Gilliam, including prod[…]

A LONDON SONGBOOK
LA LIGA – “Out In London (Breaks Mix)”: A track which actually has some resonance. It doesn’t manage to evoke anything of the gleeful stumble of London nightlife but its boxy, taut breaks and wriggling bleeps[…]

Quiet here today innit? However I’m writing like mad about music in lots of other places: Popular inches on and I’ve been writing about songs which may or may not be about London at Blog Seven (our new ‘thing’). I’ve als[…]

The Quill
Tom’s blog took me back to my Spectrum childhood. I can see the overlap appeal of RPG and adventure based computer games (I was a Level 9 aficionado) but to me they were entirely separate entities. Sit me in front of a screen and I wo[…]

It appears there is nothing The Onion likes more than summer movie season.
MOVIE PRAISED FOR NOT BEING AS BAD AS IT COULD BE
I still think it will be a touchstone of badness by the time the year is over, but I am open to the idea that it might only b[…]

How interested are artists in art? I would venture that a lot of them are not all that interested at all. After all, if you are constantly dragging round the galleries you won’t have time for your own work, and what about all those dangerous id[…]

My 1973 birthdate put me right on the frontline of the most revolutionary development in kids’ leisure time since TV had been invented. Arcade games started appearing in the UK in 1978, and two or three years later home computer games machines […]