Johnny Cash-Hurt
Trent Reznor hates, because he is young, and because to be young and hate sells records
Cash bleeds the novelty out of it, and resigns himself to an elder statesmans sadness.[…]

I am preparing my testimony for tomorrow’s Campus Crusade for Christ’s meeting, and this came on my head phones, thanks to a comp that I had just refound.
Thinking when this was made, in the time when Lou Reed was all about trannies, he[…]

I’ve just been waiting for some songs to be released, here are some I’ve liked whilst watching the Box and MTV.
Sarah Whatmore — Automatic — She stole or if you like, borrowed her ‘oh’s’ form J Lo’s &#[…]

Download This! – hey kids remember 2002! Also – hey kids remember NYLPM! Can’t speak for other contributors but I have been first busy then ill and the thought-coherence needed to post here has been beyond me. But now I’m (a b[…]

There is much to dislike about the erstwhile Fame Academy winner, not least his puppyish face which implores me not to put the bricks in the sack, tie the top and pitch it into the Thames. The fact that he isn’t just some sort of bland faceless[…]

I have now lived in the drab world of the non-smoker for two long and sorry years. I promised myself when I gave up that I would not become one of those dreadful converts, whining about their clothes stinking of cigs after five minutes in the pub (of[…]

I don’t drive. I’ve never even taken a driving lesson. This in itself is not of any great interest, but it means that I rarely have the experience of hearing music I like in the car: when I do travel in a motor, I tend to be subjected to […]

One Line Dismissals of Country Videos, Part One
Drive-Alan Jackson
Daddy songs, no matter how hackish, make me lose all critical skills, and Country has too many of them.
Dean Tuftin-I’m not so little
A bully comeuppance story,
Alabama-I&#821[…]

If he’s so full of poetic wonder and awe, why does he sing these lyrics like he’s reading an encyclopedia? What woman is going to be flattered by having lecherous lyrics unemotionally intoned at her by someone who gives the impression th[…]

This isn’t the wonderland you’d find a hyperactive grade-school kid pinballing through — sure, the kid’s happy to pull on pant leg & dress hem screaming MOMMY DADDY LET’S GO HERE I WANNA SEE MICKEY WHERES MICKEY MOMM[…]