Defending Dune: I like Dune, having seen it twice. Once at my house, once at a friends. Both times have something in common (other than Dune). I was drunk, and getting more so.
It is not true that all films seem better when you’re drunk. Films […]

The Eurodance Encyclopaedia: A fine site – detailed and fun but not comprehensive. For instance – where is Dr Bombay?! Though perhaps I shouldn’t ask. But the absence of Alcazar is puzzling. The site does, however, feature a band ca[…]

The Oink! Song: something to amuse you while you wait for our thrilling reportage from the Popjustice Music Prize. Oink! was a humour – toilet humour, if we’re being (nose) picky (geddit) – comic from the mid-80s. The first issue ca[…]

2000 AD has another crack at the US market, this time with the might of DC backing it up. The prospects look as good as they could be (i.e. adequate) but it’s interesting that the interview barely mentions the one key difference between 2000 ma[…]

POP FACTOR: 624 CONTROVERSY RATING: 263
Sometime in the endless pre-release life of “These Words” I decided I loved the disarming ending. A little while later I decided I loved the beginning too – so confident, so cute. And the mi[…]

Olympic Quiz
This was a quiz I put together for a work charity night, with a roughly Olympic theme. Because it was a charity/fun quiz there are a higher than normal proportion of questions which require (unless you’re a complete obsessive or sh[…]

Sounds Of Sweden: unsurprisingly, I approve.[…]

I never realised until last night how totally physically exhausting doing a pub quiz is. Standing up shouting at a room of pissed people for two hours: nein danke. It seemed to go pretty well, though by the end I was so knackered that my response to […]

Organised Fun: my invisibility on here today is down to having to work. Hardly news, but the work in question is organising a charity event tonight at my company, a ‘pub olympics’ involving various games and a quiz, which I’m settin[…]

Dorian Lynskey takes aim at Goldie Lookin’ Chain: I generally think that GLC are harmless shite, Lynskey identifies a more sinister agenda among their fans, of mocking hip-hop via laughing at people who do it badly. This is a bit over the top &[…]