Okay, the reason why Gaddafi: A Living Myth was not called Gaddafi: The Opera hits you almost straight away in the production. It is not the heavy beats, samples and muezzin sampling score – you could still have a libretto over that. It is the[…]

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The traditional English pub: a place where blokes go to drink. On their own, with their friends. That’s it, really. Sometimes you don’t want any more. Often, no more is offered. (more…)[…]

Ed: here’s Anthony’s track-by-track commentary for his podcast
Walk on By — Dionne Warwick
Crying in the street when one sees an ex doesn’t seem to be the best example of control, but how she lays ground rules here, how she sings […]

Aren’t pubs great? Big social levellers, allowing us to drink perfectly brewed and measured pints and spirits, allowing us to enjoy each others company without worrying about who is going to clean up the fag ash from the floor. I prefer pubs to[…]

Walk on By – Dionne Warwick
Buck Owens – Big In Vegas
Baby, Lets Have A Baby Before Bush do Something Crazy – Coup
Borderline – Madonna
Northern Star – Hole
Anything But Mine – Kenny Chesney (more…)[…]

vote in the sukrat wiretapper poll[…]

This time the battle is between Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas and Fergie of Manchester United. Note that both our protagonists are trying to garner votes by looking serious.

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(this recipe is adapted from claudia roden’s 1968 classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food) (warning: it takes abt three hours from start to finish, but you can do other things during almost all of this)
GET THIS:
1 x aztec marmite (or equiv)
1 x […]

We are so used to various foods being bigged up as the next superfood, packed with nutritious goodies to keep us zingingly alive, that it has become difficult to be surprised by the next pick. One day its pomegranates, next its mandarins, then macker[…]

Not officially announced by Nintendo yet – but MCV reports November release date for the Wii at a launch price of £149! Haw – perhaps I can get the digital camera later then. This is a good £275 (!) cheaper than the (estimated) (put bac[…]