So, unless you’ve been getting a bit too interested in the old global financial meltdown, you’ll have noticed the whole Russell Brand & Jonathan Ross prank phone call affair. I decided to reserve judgement until I’d actually heard the prank call. Crazy, eh? What would the Daily Mail do for content if more people acted [...]
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Miscellaneous doings
October 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Art/Culture, Drivel
Haven’t really felt sufficiently worked up to write about anything specific recently, so here’s some random recent news… First of all, say hello to our new housemates… This is Merry and Pippin (yes, Nicola is a huge LOTR fan). Merry is the black one and, unlike the hobbit namesake, is female. We’d been intending to [...]
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Tom’s Nine Lives
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Art/Culture, Music
Any Tom Waits fans reading this? Browsing in Waterstones the other day, I noticed this new biography… The Many Lives of Tom Waits A book of collected interviews has been around for a while, but even the thought of reading several interviews in succession bores me to tears. However, this new book immediately attracted my [...]
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A promise of future happiness
September 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Art/Culture, Drivel
… is the fact that Stephen Fry, the thoroughly splendid fellow, now has a blog. Everyone buy a cake to celebrate! http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/
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Last.FA
August 1st, 2007 · 7 Comments · Art/Culture, Music industry, Technology
Are you familiar with Audioscrobbler? It’s a little tool that works with your computer’s media player (iTunes, Winamp, etc) and uploads your listening habits to a central website. That way, you can marvel at the number of times you’ve listened to “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep”, while also browsing other people’s playlists and finding new things [...]
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Farväl, Ingmar
July 30th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Art/Culture
Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007 “Vem är du?”… “Jag är döden”
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Gordon says…
April 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Art/Culture, Drivel
Gordon Brown claims today that the country is turning away from a celebrity culture and insists his seriousness is in tune with a new spirit of the times. (
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Kurt Vonnegut 1922-2007
April 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Art/Culture
… has died in New York. One of the most important writers of the twentieth century and a rare example of a cult figure who was also a serious and profound artist. Vonnegut also stands out for me as one of very few people (along with J.G. Ballard and Neal Stephenson) who have tempted me [...]
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Your own private picture palace
February 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Art/Culture, TV/Radio
Matthew Sweet mourns the decline of challenging film presentations on terrestrial TV in yesterday’s Guardian… Where did all the great movies go? I don’t think it’s *quite* as bad as he suggests… there’s a trickle of decent films on BBC4, ITV3 and 4, More4 and five, just as long as you have access to Freeview. [...]
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