I had been secretly and sadly proud of holding my own in the ILX Premiership Predictions League, until I realised that my lower-mid table place is in fact the worst of anyone who’s joined in all four rounds. Despite nodding heartily along to Da[…]

MORTON FELDMAN – “Why Patterns?”
Outside, construction to the new room was still unfinished. The floor was dirty with Long Island sand; the apartment, eclipse-dark. Frigid, it was always frigid, what with it being on the ground and […]

The Original Soundtrack is Geeta’s fine and recently revived weblog, which has a fair bit of music content and which I’m linking partly because Geeta is going to be editing the sixth (yes sixth!) Freaky Trigger weblog, on science and tech[…]

Damien Hirst has a new show at the White Cube, and Adrian Searle has the knives out for it. This is one of those bad reviews which has made me keener than ever to see the show itself. I’m not at all impressed with the last paragraph, in which A[…]

Edward O was disappointed by this on ILX, making the point that the first singles from the Sugababes’ last two albums (‘Overload’ and ‘Freak Like Me’) were contemporary pop landmarks, and ‘Hole In The Head’ s[…]

KELIS – “Game Show”
I like to think of Kelis as an “ask Abby” for the hypermediated age. Her songs are often populated (lyrically, sonically) with bleeping, buzzing (the information age needs new onotomatopoeia) gizmos &[…]

The Hare And Tortoise, Brunswick Centre, WC1.
Where do you go for comfort food? That quick pick-me-up, that stuff your face feeling. A meal that you know will always be of the same quality and will always fill you up and make you feel better afterwar[…]

Adverts ‘fat’ joke ruled ‘funny’, not offensive, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Which is more than can be said about Jamie Theakston’s presenting on The Games which scores doubly bad on fatuousness (is[…]

Look! It’s Mercury Music Prize winner Dizzee Rascal picking his nose!!! You’d think he’d get a little man to do that kind of thing for him now, wouldn’t you? Then again, for all his superstardom he’s still quite a little[…]

There is an essential dilemma when reviewing popularisations of specialist subjects. If I know enough about X to determine whether this introduction to X covers the ground throughly and accurately, without omission or distortion or misrepresentation,[…]