THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Dir. Jonathan Demme
I actually feel somewhat reticent about posting this because I have a slight hunch this is appearing in the FT Top 50 list (or else it already has and I’ve missed it), and it seems sorta gauche for m[…]

Altered beasts
1979 Alien movie: frightening.
1987 Predator movie: engaging.
1989 Aliens vs Predator comic book: exciting.
1994 Aliens vs Predator console game: gripping.
2004 Alien vs Predator movie: APPALLING.[…]

magritte endorses kerry:
“‘Sacre bleu, vive le France,’ say some other candidates. ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe.‘”
(eg more political discussion from fafnir an giblets) (i kinda know this is not genuine frontli[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
10. Threads
This is the only fictional work to get onto the list. Whether it should be so low overall is open to debate, but I genuinely think it’s the most frightening film I’ve ever seen – by a m[…]

Always look on the bright side
Huo Jiyu, China, whose apartment was demolished by a space capsule on re-entry, is quoted in New Scientist,
“The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we’ll have good luck this year”[…]

Why Genesis failed
Apparently they put the sensors that detected re-entry in the wrong way up. A serious case of “elbow-posterior uncertainty at work” as the caption in this week’s New Scientist would have it.[…]

“I AM LEGION“: or Making the Contradiction the Hook
Aging leftists often wring their hands and shake their heads: “What happened to rock? In my day it was the soundtrack to the revolt against war…” And then they up and […]

Popjustice suggests multi-format bonanza as the best way to shift copies of a new Band Aid single. But with the line-up face-off currently being between ‘credible’ bands like Coldplay (i.e. music for cunts) and pop bands (i.e. music for p[…]

An open letter to Fancy A Pint.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for FINALLY starting to link to Streetmap for your maps of where pubs are. This is a lot easier than copying the postcode from the pub description, opening streetmap, putting the postco[…]

My Theory Of Magazine Buying
Apologies if I have gone into this before. Inspired by a Dissensus thread on the well-meaning Observer Music Monthly.
Basically once you’ve got to the stage where you actually know about something it’s best to[…]