aaargh bah grrrr sigh!!!
after nearly a decade of grabbing strangers in the street and yelling at them that adam curtis (= The Century of the Self (2002); The Mayfair Set (1999), The Living Dead (1996) and Pandora’s Box (1992)) is the BEST THI[…]

PLUR: hidden agenda revealed
to me till now, US warblogger glenn reynolds wz merely the mind behind instapundit – a one-stop shop for tireless partisan humbug. So here he rather unexpectedly is reflecting on a. how money and politics have chan[…]

Reports on Band Aid III are neglecting to ask the one crucial question about the new record – viz. who gets to sing THAT LINE? After high-level FT editorial discussion we’re of the opinion that there is only one man with the pipes for it.[…]

FORTY FILMS
A List Of Films from 2003 How to write about what I thought were the best forty films of last year. No, scratch that, why am I writing about the forty best films of last year? The simplest answer of course would be that I did it last yea[…]

CURT WEARS RED SOX
i just this minute underwent the MOST EXCITING SPORTS RECAP i ever heard = Mr TR4CER H4ND explaining me the redsox hoohah by mobile, as they last night in the face of the legendary 86-year-old curse beat back the yankeeZoRz from 3[…]

When ‘Mexican’ means atmosphere more than food — the thing about the seventy-year-old-plus El Coyote Cafe in Los Angeles is not that the food’s great. It isn’t. Not necessarily HORRIBLE, mind you, but you are not going t[…]

Sick man of Europe So a record 1.8 digiviewers tuned into Little Britain last night? A show incorporating:
– I’m Alan Partridge-style excessive taped laughter,
– Tired-sounding old catchphrases and unmemorable new ones,
– Vomi[…]

Xanadu redux — about a month and a half back I reported on rewatching said Olivia Newton John film for the first time in a long while and complaining about it. I still complain but last night catching it at a revival theater with a slew of fri[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
12: Contracting Alzheimer’s Disease
Not any old disease. Alzheimer’s. One day you are a bit forgetful. One day you cannot quite get your head around numbers. Too tired to read, even though you know it[…]

…and so would you if you’d seen the midweeks. Manics at #1 again with surely their most overwrought, wafflesome, draggy song ever. I honestly thought we’d seen the last of them as a commercial force.
Luckily the despair is lifted by[…]