Updated (after too long) the list of tunes on the sidebar. I feel like I’ve been hibernating, to be honest: miserable weather, bed-ridden wife, mountains of work – I’ve not had much attention left for music, I’ve just stuck so[…]

I was hoping to find something funny on Popjustice talking about the awful, awful UK Eurovision entry (tousle-haired sensitive lad with guitar doing ballad), but no such luck. I can’t blame them, it’s a miserable prospect: the people in c[…]

Prog Rocking!
Tom Allen’s 2000AD stuff. So much here if you root around in this sticky (fwd/back navigation acts oddly for me) fortunecity site. There’s even a Crisis timeline, details of the Prog 2000 extravaganza (which I never saw), li[…]

Gerhard Richter at the Whitechapel Art Gallery
I’ve never seen so many images in one show – there are several thousand – so on that basis maybe this justifies the high ‘8.50 admission. It’s dominated by his long-term, co[…]

the “wick effect” just debuted on midsomer murders, so underground culture is officially over (i wz flicking channels OK!!?)[…]

Monopoly ‘ Lord of the Rings Edition
A few weeks ago Mark Sinker wondered “Are there any board games which are actually IMPROVED or AT ALL CHANGED – as opposed to momentarily coloured – by having their own classic scenarios re[…]

Probably the best thing to take away the taste of a Haribo Super Pirato salted licorice drop is a Swedish Pepper Ball (scroll down).[…]

What is the key trait of being a loveably prolific screen actor. If you ask Michael Caine, it is probably something to do with the having the really prolifically (for which read bad) part of you career a good twenty years ago. These days Caine is rar[…]

Wive$watch:OK so Tanya had !!!triply!!! treacherous sex w.Conrad on a Lear Jet, carving her initial on his butt w.her fingernail extensions, for Amber to spot and know and weep. Isn’t this the entire plot of The Pillowbook, except hyper-compres[…]

Books you’re too old to read at 34
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ‘ Hunter S Thompson
Despite four years as a student, an insatiable appetite for reading and an impressionable and gullible mind, I’ve never read Fear & Loathi[…]