I don’t know if you’ve been watching newsnight over the past couple of weeks, but there has been intense controversy about them replacing the daily round-up of the markets (which always seemed like a haiku version of the shipping forecast[…]

Ever since the “What’s on George Bush’s iPod” story a week or so ago, various papers have carried out mini surveys of other politicians and their musical predilections. This harks back to earlier stories you may recall from ar[…]

My second reason: 2) To watch rubbish films that even I refused to see in the cinema, often to uncover the odd under-rated gem (and improve my already obsessive completist MENTALITY).
Okay, the obsessive bit is possibly a bit frightening, as I have r[…]

i dremt that tony soprano’s wife wz really buggin me to have a relationship: i however wz unconvinced bcz she is TONY SOPRANO’S WIFE!!
(i woke thinkin: WHAT HAVE I GOT MYSELF INTO??)[…]

I mentioned here how lousy Be Cool is as a movie. I want to reiterate here how uningaging, and uninspiring its version of the music industry is. Don’t get me wrong, I believe the music industry is a dog eat dog world where little favours work a[…]

Not a riddle. Not a puzzle. Just how do you say it?
(Thanks to Doctor T for this one).

If 60% of students say they would do X and 90% say they would do Y, how much more likely are they to do Y than X. 50% more likely (i.e. 60 + 30, half again)? 33% […]

It had the trademark Elmore Leonard snappy dialogue and had a neatly packed plot. But it was clear that Leonard knew very little about the music biz, and therefore it lacked the edge that his obvious bitter dealings with the movies had informed Get S[…]

Time Out offered a free pair of film tickets and a free month rental of DVD’s from LoveFilm two months ago. Usually disdainful of such offers I wondered what I had to lose. Nothing, and I had a free cinema ticket to gain. But whilst signed up I[…]

We were led, in the dark, into an underground encampment. Once inside it had all the set design nouse of a rubbish mid eighties James Bond film. You know , the ones that had themes by no mark pop bands like Duran Duran or A-Ha. The only eighties Bond[…]

Nashville was as horrific as I expected. You could smell the rotten, fetid, stench of country music. People have often asked me how something which is composed of sound can have a smell. Maybe I have an advanced form of synesthesia, but to me all mus[…]