breaded fried cods roe
before his parkinsons made it a bit inadvisable for him to cook (ie many years ago now) my dad, who always did breakfast, would serve up the above as an occasional special breakfast treat – and as a result i always assum[…]

THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 100 SONGS OF ALL TIME
A Note on Methodology
You may be familiar with how these lists are compiled. You may not be. The theory is that people’s truest aesthetic preferences come out under the influence of some substance or[…]

A Low-Key Return For The INDIE AMNESTY
Here are the latest batch of INDIE AMNESTY items to be offered on eBay. A quick reminder of the premise of the indie amnesty – people give their shameful indie CDs to me to be put beyond use (i.e. sold on […]

There are a number of sequences in Enduring Love which were filmed right outside my office. They are some of the better parts of the film (my office gives it that extra gravitas I think). Its not a bad film on the whole, but does suffer from the enti[…]

The Marlborough Arms
The third pub on the Star Of David Pub Crawl was a rather depressing pub when we arrived, home of plenty of punters drinking on their own. A pub I have frequented quite a lot; it has never been cheap, and is often often over-full[…]

PRESENTERATOR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Jimmy Carr
List TV died about two years ago, having been saturated to the level of absurdity. Nevertheless it does have a place in the schedules as an undemanding extra person in the room prompting you to remember, arg[…]

Tom Wesselman
1931-2004
His work lacks the cool arrogance of a Warhol or the theoretical complexities of johns at his best; but he has something else–he has a formalism, and a sense of space that amazes–his layers and levels are the firs[…]

Lemony Snicket’s Series Of Unfortunate Events leaves its credits to the end. Which is probably a good thing considering they consist of some wonderfully evocative silhouette based animation which is both much more in keeping with the tone of th[…]

Skinnyman, not to be confused with Skinner (Mike), who also produced a UK rap concept album this year. Council Estate Of Mind is a huge worthy polemic on the opportunities available to youths on inner city council estates which comes bundled with a […]

I was surprised that Star Of The Sea was so little about the actual voyage of a ship from Ireland to New York during the potato famine, and rather an attempt at a literary pastiche to try and fill in a lack of nineteenth century Irish literature. For[…]