Despite a brief cameo by Michael Schumacher Car, the filum Cars steers clear of German cars. Oh, there’s a VW campervan, but that is a hippy, with a typical hippy accent (its your grandad’s idea of a hippy at that, straight out of early s[…]

… the cultural paradigm done fell over, like
“his favourite television shows were The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGyver”[…]

Find-a-grave. Your one stop shop for, er, finding a famous (or non-famous) persons grave.[…]

Premise Number 1: The Ashes as fought between England and Australia is a great trophy precisely due to its lack of monetary value and excess of symbolic value. (more…)[…]

Visionary ranting from one-time FT contributor Robin Carmody on Pulp and “Common People” and pop before and after the Britpop boom. Stirring, on-form stuff. Probably because he doesn’t hoist his banner (ironically or otherwise) for[…]

Is A Scanner Darkly a faithful Philip K.Dick adaptation? I HOPE NOT. What is the point of a faithful adaptation of anything? What does it bring to the table, nothing new? So, instead Linklater’s rotoscoped (don’t say cartoon) version of t[…]

What a coincidence. The Scissor Sisters don’t feel like dancing. And I don’t feel like listening. And not just because they’ve updated their schtick from being Elton John copyists to Leo Sayer copyists*. Not even because the whole s[…]

Figs, FT readers! I love them! My budget always breaks in the supermarket when I reach the fig aisle – oh some might go for the dried prunes inna bag, some might go for the dried APPLE inna bag (yuck!), but not for me! Sainsburys Organic Figs Y[…]

So i went to Edinburgh and managed not to show my arse in the back of shot for the recording of the (still dire) Edinburgh Show at the Pleasance…
I did go and see quite a lot of really good shows though, amazingly not a single stinker in 15 or […]

years ago brian eno gave a lecture in which he argued that the space occupied by PERFUME is multidimensional in a way that cannot be easily mapped — but this post is about how deodorant companies attempt to do just this, not geometrically it&#8[…]