Quick ILXor.com update — just in case anyone’s been wondering (I’ve received a slew of e-mails asking!), Andrew G., who oversees the machine in Melbourne, Australia, is aware of the machine shutdown but won’t be able to invest[…]

or Don’t Look Back in Anger
Shot during the Prague Spring and released after the Russian invasion, Lindsay Anderson’s ‘If….’ would seem to have earned its parenthetical (1968). With its violent anti-authoritarianism, lon[…]

An Amazing Collection
This http://www.christopherporter.com/ has songs from africa and its disporia, and it is the widest ranging, most wonderful collection of the material i have seen on any mp3 blog–hip hop from Narobi, that sounds somewhere […]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C Clarke
A 15-year long conspiracy is fighting for its life. The conspiracy, committed by desperate Dr Who fans, permeates the corridors of British television. […]

Even more help needed…: the ‘Shopping CD’ went down so well with the PTB at work that I’ve been asked to put together a Christmas CD to accompany the Head Office Xmas dinner. The word ‘tasteful’ has been bandied ar[…]

Pop Factor: 258 Controversy Rating: 214
Brian McFadden’s two-fisted attack on the Catholic Church is a braver and more lucid political statement than anything, say, Bono has ever managed. That it’s also part of the most naked grab for cr[…]

It’s not worth it!: “Artists which could save a man from getting dumped by his girl are Damian Rice, Robbie Williams, Joss Stone, Westlife, Usher and Elton John.”[…]

(Obviously compiling this list a few weeks before December means that true Christmas spirit had not settled in amongst the electorate. However one must imagine this is exactly the same problem that the TV schedulers have when programming Supergirl on[…]

It’s a rather clever sexual paen to Ms Rice. The only problem is that it is done as calypso–so I wonder, is it racist–is he making fun of her race, engaging in v. old stereotypes about sexuality and african american women ?
It is ra[…]

We’re far too lazy/jaded/secretly into Bennet to do the ‘clever writing about pop’ thing any more, so it’s a good thing that some people still manage it.[…]