The last few days have been something of a voyage. As if the (what I assume to be) Noro bugs stripped back the layers of experience plastered to the walls of my digestive system like wonky tree-rings and deposited me in the headspace of a sickly eight-year-old huddled under a blanket in dad's big chair in the kitchen, waiting for my four-hourly ( Read more... )

You should read this book it is very good. (And I am only mildly biased)

I don't know how it happened but I am mixing with the cool kids.

For reasons unknown entirely bloody obvious because hell is other people, every time I look at G+ 'nearby' on t'mobile, all I can see is/are complete tosspots. I must admit that I start to look at it on a ( Read more... )

"Alan Carr's celebrity ding-dong. With Christopher Biggins."

Charlie Brooker must be making a mint licensing out bits from TV Go Home.

(Wasn't that an Electro-Hippies track? Or was it Extreme Noise Terror? The !Peel programme on Dandelion Radio reminded me about Hagar the Womb and it's all gone a bit shouty ( Read more... )

This looks like a DVD I should like to own. However I don't know that I want to be ordering it from the US. Yes, one can get it from Filmexport.cz, but my Czech language is, um, non-existent, and I'd probably end up ordering a Tatra by mistake. Not that it would be a bad thing, per se, but I don't have anywhere to put one. Especially one of those ( Read more... )

The room-party last night was seriously full-on and exactly the right thing to do. It put the tin lid on a life-changing week that I shared with a splendid and talented mob of lovely people ( Read more... )