HOW MARILLION ARE KILLING THE FILE SHARING INDUSTRY
One of the reasons for my relative patchiness in hating updates recently has been due partially to a relatively crap computer. So I spent the unpleasant hours before the pubs opened this morning wan[…]

BJORK!!!!!
My army grows….[…]

IHM LYRIC WATCH 15: ADRIAN GURVITZ – Classic
“I’m gonna write a classic
I’m gonna write it in an attic”
There is a suggestion here that some good person heard Mr Gurvitz’s claim, followed him home on the day he fin[…]

DEATH TO THE DARKNESS
Picture this, dear Reader. We have traveled back in time to ancient Rome. A civilization of spendour, pomp, pageantry and debauchery. Here in the imperial senate we see the rich and powerful lounging on comfortable sofas content[…]

KILLER MIKE – A.D.I.D.A.S.
Being not a song about his stinky trainers, though I daresay this is the only aspect of him which is truly a killer, but rather his mental processes. Cleverly this footwear advert is an acronym for All Day I Dream Abo[…]

WHILE WE’RE AT IT – THE THEME FROM CHEERS
Locals, I like locals. Indeed I like locals so much there are very few locales in which I don’t have local. Which is why I always hated Cheers, the popular television program supposedly set […]

There was some bloke who recently wrote a book about television programmes. Not my idea of fun, but a much more respectable job than writing about pop music in the positive. However as part of this tome he decided to subject himself to a comparative […]

Of course my serene mood was soon rudely shattered. While willing the thermometer ever higher, hoping for it to reach the happy point at which cheapo Taiwanese stereo components melt into unconductive puddles, a headline caught my eye that caused me […]

I’ve only just noticed – and not because of the reason you might imagine. Possibly what that Tom Ewing fellow thought, I would be head down in an alcoholic stupor coming up only for alka-seltzer when he pulled this fast one. One day I ret[…]

Gorky as in Gorky Park – scene of terrible crime (and a pretty terrible film though I always had a soft spot for the book which has long passages about the solace in vodka.)
Zygotic as in the Zygons – a particularly bad Doctor Who villain from th[…]