The Karate Kid is not the best film ever made, but it does hold a soft spot in my heart. Yes it, and its two sequels, are formulaic coming of age movies, and Ralph Macchio is clearly about forty by the time Part III turned up: but who can hate fence […]

On this years Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl on the 20th December in the Borough region we saw a poster. A giant, huge poster for Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open saying it was the biggest selling album of 2006. Pshaw, pooh pooh, we poo[…]

January 2nd may be too soon for some folks to start their year’s pubbing. Not so for a small band of hardy troopers last night – albeit each one having a soft drink infront of them. The conversation took its natural course, and we fell to[…]

Eric Cartman in the 25th century – South Park intro
Wear Your Love Like Heaven – Definition Of Sound
The Happening – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley (Heatwave remix & DJ Z-Trip boot)
Hood Boy –[…]

Many people find it hard to take Dolly Parton seriously as a musician, despite a long and distinguished songwriting career full of hits and songs which are now seen as country standards. I find it hard to take Dolly Parton seriously as a musician bec[…]

It’s a quiet week for the marketing press as everyone is still doing the Skiving Britain thing. The “Irritating Ads 2006” survey deserves a separate post and may get it, but mostly what we’re looking at are predictions for 200[…]

Terrence Malick makes, on the whole, boring films. Of course the beauty of the cinematography and the peaceful, contemplative aura of the production could well be another way of say “boring” and I’ll hold my hand up to that. I like […]

A big selling-point of tabletop RPGs – possibly a legacy of the era they appeared in, the liberal 1970s – was their non-competitive, open-ended aspect. Individual players wouldn’t “win” games, the group would only achiev[…]

List of Films With The Most Utterances Of The Word Fuck in it. I luv Wikipedia…[…]

I haven’t really got an awful lot to say about N’Kisi, the talkative parrot whose ability to talk seems to contradict the usual suggestion that that parrots merely mimic. I don’t know enough about the science, my philosophy of lingu[…]