TV Diary: everything I watched on 29/3/05
WWE Raw: It starts with an occasional chat-show style segment, and commentator Jerry Lawler says, in a surprised tone, “It seems like every time we have a Highlight Reel it ends up in a fight!” Pe[…]

Great Moments:
‘Mmm Bop’ by Hanson 0:55-0:58
(an occasional series reviewing all of music a few seconds at a time)
(suggested by Pete during Poptimism)
This has a fairly undistinguished start, and the strangulated and weak vocals inspire […]

TV Diary: everything I watched on 28/3/05
Huff: An overnight gap from Help, but here’s another show centred on a psychologist. Hank Azaria, the great Simpsons voice actor, plays a shrink with troubles of one sort and another with wife, son, par[…]

TV Diary: everything I watched on 27/3/05
Traffic: another one where I hadn’t realised there were subtitles (what is it with American films where not everyone speaks American?). I’m at the computer doing stuff, and can barely read them fr[…]

TV Diary: everything I watched on 26/3/05
Top of the Pops (taped yesterday): It’s only a couple of hours, but I have forgotten most of what was on. I think Basement Jaxx was the only thing I loved. The Snoop/Timberlake/Neptunes/someone else (Ch[…]

Lame Secret Identities in Superhero Comics
There are plenty of unlikely villainous names – “You mean the Riddler is really Mr E. Nigma? Holy stupid fucking contrivances, Batman!” – but since a lot of them were probably created[…]

TV Diary: everything I watched on 25/3/05
Zatoichi is covered in the Blind fighters post below. A very good movie.
Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas: An odd mix of animation styles, making some parts look as if they are in different realms of reality,[…]

Blind fighters
Warning: some spoilers.
There seems to have been a fair bit of this going around of late. I recall Rutger Hauer in Blind Fury as an ex-soldier who lost his sight and was trained to fight in Vietnam, but until recently I can’t thi[…]

Christian Marclay at the Barbican
This is a tremendously enjoyable show. There’s lots of work to see, and it’s very varied. Album sleeves painted over, a tuba and trumpet joined at the mouthpiece, photos of things to do with sound, a ludi[…]

* Okay, we haven’t taken a vote and there may be no more than one – this is just me remembering something I’d intended to write way back in the Month Of Fear but forgot.
Years ago, my then-wife started getting seriously into photogr[…]