A place where nobody dares to go — showing The Apple to a friend the other night prompted a request to show Xanadu, and thus it was done. It has to be said that of the overblown disco movie troika (English-language, at least), consisting of sai[…]

DESTINY’S CHILD
“Lose My Breath”
I’m a bit surprised at the vehemence this song has inspired over on ILM. I’m not surprised that cosmic twin Dan Perry agrees with me, though — this is some great stuff. To be honest[…]

Up the Pacific Coast from San Diego to San Francisco by submarine
It was travel but not one of the most scenic of routes, in that there wasn’t much to see. But back in 1979 my dad’s submarine the Pollack — as the history notes, he r[…]

PRESENTERATOR
Scary people for a scary world
#4: PAUL “What would you spend that money on?” MARTIN
Those of you who’ve been spending a fair bit of time indoors lately may well have noticed that daytime BBC is beginning to resemble a[…]

MORTON FELDMAN – “Why Patterns?”
I quite honestly don’t want to listen to this fucking thing again.
I played it while watching a TV show a few days ago and felt a chill, then felt…irritation. I turned it down and just le[…]

Great Ceefax TV Listings Of Our Time
BBC2
0600: TELETUBBIES– Extended weekend edition[…]

And then again maybe you win some after all — looks like things aren’t as bad as I said earlier regarding the Genesis mission. “We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our primary science goals,” said physicist Roger W[…]

When a wineglass that has stayed overnight with a few drops of wine in it is filled with water, the smell of rose emerges.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
33: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Martin Skidmore says:
I guess this was among the inevitable inclusions in this list – there must be hatas somewhere among young/ish people, but I don’t know them. Jeff Bridges, one of my absolute favo[…]

Comics On The Radio. Unfortunately this new spree of BBC led comics on the radio (?) are not by pioneer Dirk Maggs, who did some odd comic adaptations on Radio One in the mid-nineties (in surround sound natch). Maggs’s version of The Death Of […]