Its nice to hear his voice again. Particularly in both being inept and statesmanlike in the space of a few sentences…
(Taped off the radio from Danny Baker’s show. Well, not taped, recorded on a computer, from a listen again file. This te[…]

I don’t usually do the techie “isn’t WordPress great” articles, but of course a well run site often comes with other whizz-bangs and flashes. And one of the things Alan has bolted on is a selection of statistics about the site[…]

In the pub a few weeks ago I mentioned that Speedy Gonzales had a brother; who, as is the way with cartoon families was diametrically opposed to Speedy’s main characteristic. Namely, he was slow. I could not remember his name, but mooted Slowpo[…]

The film of Tideland is possibly one of my favourite experiences of the year. A desultory small audience for the 6:45pm screening at the Curzon Soho were treated to what I was lead to believe would be a difficult, sometimes unwatchable Gilliam event.[…]

The Notorious Bettie Page is a film about the good old days of porn. You know, when it wasn’t exploitative, and all the girls portrayed within were not only fun loving conspirators in an art project, but believed in Jeebus too. Most film about […]

YES: Jack Black does a ridiculous Mexican accent.
NO: This is pretty much the premise. All the other actors are Mexican’s with varying accents. Calling the film racist because one character has a silly accent would be to condemn Peter Sellars i[…]

I was one of the party at the beer festival last week. Championing perry, cider, porter and pickled garlic. But Earls Court is a big place, and the literal treking from Scotland to the South West had taken its toll on our ickle feet. Ten of us descen[…]

A couple of years ago, big brand record stores started to BRING BACK VINYL. They had noticed that 12″ vinyl was still the format of choice of DJ’s and the Oxford Street stores were losing trade to the Berwick Street and other gangs which […]

So its that time of year again when the enquiring minds of the FreakyTrigger collective turns to food. And not so much the eating of food, as the testing to destruction of. Yes it is time for the Second Annual Liz Daplyn Food Science Day. Provisional[…]

Its great news for farmers whose crops might be damaged by flooding. But its bad news for people who want to take less that two weeks cooking up a pot of Basmati…[…]