TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
THE B-52’s
In order of preference, your B-52’s in full:
a) A super flying fortress of a bomber responsible with the ability to destroy much of the world or at least the world in the mid-fifties when it was a[…]

The most disasterous disaster film…Deep Impact. As a follow on from Mark’s note about missing Armageddon (how does he fashion these nuggets!) he unfairly lumps Deep Impact in with a whole load of 96-98 disaster epics. On the surface it fi[…]

A Million Love Songs – the ‘all-star MP3 superblog’. Oooh!
(I have signed up to ‘contribute’, expect tat.)
ALSO! Bang and Burn – the hits just keep on coming.
ALSO ALSO! Radio 1 just did a DREADFUL Colin and Edith […]

“NOISE = PROPHECY” except Hollywood Style
Even though Armageddon has the longest sustained purely abstract-expressionist avant-garde sequence ever edited into the heart of a mainstream blockbuster, I didn’t catch much of it last ni[…]

I adore screwball comedies. Light airy flights of fantasy where the internal logic of the film slowly creeps outside of the expectations of reality. A good screwball comedy should be a perfect one line pitch. “A scientist, and heiress and a leo[…]

BULKING IT UP!![…]

PUBLOG FRUIT OF THE MONTH: RHUBARB
I made a rhubarb pie yesterday, after having been afeard for many a year of how to cook the fruit worlds answer to celery. I guess I was always slightly put off by the poisonous leaves thing (Bad Girls watchers tak[…]

(aka PopNose13)
So Mark S messaged me – “Have you ever heard of Midi Maxi And Efti?”. I had not. He told me he hadn’t either – except he dimly remembered Frank Kogan raving about them. I was intrigued. Partly because Fra[…]

Before and After Para-Science #2
So here i wz in Wales, during a little break from ferrying my invalid mum’m’dad around, and i wz making notes on a piece frank kogan commissioned wms contributors to write, ages back, which in my case is […]

When artistic choices go wrong. Emile, an attempt at a Proustian remembrance of a Canada past from the view of an exiled academic, is not unusually in using a wistful look to signal a flashback to echo memory. Ian McKellan as Emile, can be set off by[…]