News from the BBC website:

Red Dwarf, last seen in 1999, will make a return to our screens this Easter for a two-part special on digital channel Dave.

Also, cello scrotum.

Back in 1988, Equinox (Channel 4's documentary-of-the-week programme, approximately equivalent to the BBC's Horizon) did a programme about the electric guitar. The other day I found a clip from it on youtube in which Jerry Donahue talks about and then demonstrates his technique of simultaneous multiple stringbends. I've already pimped it at a ( Read more... )

Well, the one thing I really didn't want them to do was an episode of Dr Who which was just an excuse to bring back Sarah Jane Smith as a sop to the fans. And in one sense that's exactly what they did, because let's face it, the story was pretty so-so, and once the situation had been established it was pretty much incidental to the interesting ( Read more... )

Andreas Katsulas passed away on monday after a long illness. Damn ( Read more... )

Spent saturday afternoon visiting nikkileah in hospital, joined by ickle_yuki, Rand and random_c. (Should've posted this update right after that. Oh well, better late than never.) Nikki was in good spirits; although she'd had no visitors until saturday, there was someone else she knew on the ward going through the same procedure a day ahead of her, who was able to reassure ( Read more... )

Well, to make up for the bitter disappointment that was H2G2, we now have the best episode so far of the new Dr Who!

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Another gig last night, and more of the cobwebs seem to have fallen away, which is good. Loath though I am to admit it, stripping my kit down from six drums to four seems to have done my playing a world of good. Not sure how this bodes for X-sTatiC, wherein I really do make use of all six ( Read more... )