free culture now or sooncome famine!
i think i had an argt or two in a k-punk comments column abt this, back at the start of the summer: i’m a bit sad the “virtual commons” meme is being declaimed by others as i wanted to COPYRIGHT[…]

FT Top 100 Films
31: INFERNAL AFFAIRS
This is the third time this year I have talked about Infernal Affairs, the first being when it came out here, and the second being about its sequel. And looking at those two reviews I find myself also considering[…]

current chart(ish) popgothnoise as subliminal politix
(i haf only skimmed this and am anyway currently so under-the-gun that i find world affairs soothing forsooth, so my opinion is worth little prob)[…]

No excuse at all
I know it’s reknowned as a library, but surely this is taking things a bit far. Songsheets? In full colour .pdf format? Blimey… This does prove, quite conclusively though, that arsenal fans do have the worst chants eve[…]

I did not know the ending to Open Water, so after reading Pete’s post I went to the interweb to find out. This led me to this hugely useful site, old news to most of you I’m sure but for me one more handy way to keep up with films I&#8217[…]

Open Water aka The Blair Jaws Project (a joke made by every other reviewer save none). A nice little suspense thriller which proves yet again the Texas Chainsaw Massacre thesis that the crapper the cinematography looks, the more real the scenario see[…]

Wrexham? Damn near killed them!
Hot on the heels of Hearts ground woes comes the saga at Wrexham.
The background can be found on the excellent Red Passion site, which covers these revelations from the club chief executive (and former Lincoln City Cha[…]

Should club nights* have ‘standards’?
There are two schools of thought on this. One says that no, they shouldn’t – it makes good records turn stale and means the evening becomes predictable. My feeling is somewhat different. I[…]

How not to run a football club
Hearts held an EGM last night to consider a resolution to approve the sale of Tynecastle for housing, and move the club to Murrayfield.
Murrayfield – across the train tracks on the Glasgow-Edinburgh line – […]

Fred Tomaselli – Monsters Of Paradise: Magnus said before we entered that he had never seen a bad exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. I had: me, Tom and Dr T had seen this Jeff Koons exhibition there and had been particularly un[…]