Today’s ILM Highlight.[…]

STOP THIS NAMING FILMS AFTER SONGS WHICH DO NOT APPEAR IN THE FILM FILTH NOW.
Why did I go and see Welcome To The Jungle? Was part of me swayed by the temptation of hearing Guns’n’Roses really loud on the Warner Village sound system. Actu[…]

Andrew Rilstone on Cerebus 300: This is superb (and no, you don’t have to have been reading the comic to appreciate it – I haven’t been! – though knowing who/what Cerebus and Dave Sim are would help). It’s so good that I[…]

BEGGAR AND CO. – “Somebody (Help Me Out)” (aka PopNose6). I saw this song mentioned on Marcello’s blog and then it popped into my head again reading the 80s soul discussion on Woebot. A spin-off from Brit jazz-funk group Light[…]

Please somebody stop me eating these delicious crisps thx.[…]

Peas In Non Bling-Bling Shockah: Juley on Eastenders last night: I don’t want vegetables on my face, bro!! The scriptwriters on last night’s ‘Stenders obv had been on a nightbus with some “street children”* recently, as […]

May I point you to this lovely story about a man finding a packet of 82 year old Smith’s crisps? The packet apparently reads:
“Eat Smith’s Crisps with your morning bacon, chops and steak, fish, poultry or game, cocktails etc.”[…]

On the right, down below the weblog links you may now see a box called “Listening to”. This is an agglomeration of FT writers’ listen-to data so you can keep tabs on the yawning chasm between our trendy claimed tastes and the shite […]

Pitchfork on Bonnie Prince Billy: I think the new Bonnie Prince Billy album is quite – no, very – good. It’s re-recordings of his older Palace tracks in a warm, country-rockish style, faintly reminiscent of early-70s Dylan. Having m[…]

SASHA – “Hanky Panky” (aka PopNose5): Sasha is part of a post-Sean-Paul pop-dancehall trend, literally in her case since her big break was on Paul’s “I’m So In Love With You” single. Now, I’m no expert […]