Hostage is Die Hard with Bruce Willis outside the enclosed space. Which kind of takes the point out of the whole affair. It is also the first season of 24 without any sense that the moral dilemma Willis is put in will ever really be put to the test. […]

You can tell there is a lot of subsidy going into FACT in Liverpool. A multi-purpose art gallery, cinema and media centre it is a Scouse ICA in a barn. The building is so open, airy and large that you do slowly start thinking about wasted space. Not […]

Gloria Goes To The Movies
Good ideas are not restricted to one blog round here, and an agitated pub discussion (what else) last Friday suggested Gloria might want to come to Do You See. After all the concepts of authenticity, pretension and critical […]

…and you will know us by the trail of dead: and the rest will follow
They are a real lower case sort of band, a sorta Archers of Loaf/Polvo/Iron Maiden mish-mash. I like this song for three main reasons:
1. It’s an anthem with a marching […]

SARAH’S POP POSER!
In “Negotiate With Love”, Rachel Stevens sings:
“The other day you said hello/We had a coffee/Now the next thing I know you’re playing me/Crap”.
Now. Is she saying, “the next thing you&#821[…]

Who’s London: plan your own walking tour for Saturday afternoon to get you in the mood, thanks to Diamondgeezer.[…]

Mike’s Pop Pilgrimages
No.5 – Wayne Hussey’s willy, London
I used to be a bit of a goth. No, that’s not true, I used to be a lot of a goth; a suede-booted, black-haired, cross-in-ear, bangle-wristed embarrassment to my parents[…]

GUESS MY THEORY #3 or #4

the one that isn’t dub dob dee = kerensky[…]

The Machinist is a film where Christian Bale plays his old nemesis Nick Dastoor and challenges for thinnest man in the world status. It is a psychological thriller which uses the plot twist du jour (cf Hide’n’Seek and Secret Window) but a[…]

Corporate Social Responsibility. Don’t you just love the sound of a phrase that is instantly abbreviated into meaninglessness as CSR. What does it mean? It means that those of us who run bars are socially responsible for making sure that the pu[…]