How not to do it.

January 11th 2007 | 13:31 | Film | General

If Bob Shaye, the man who runs New Line, the company who made, let’s not forget, billions of dolllars out of Peter Jackson and the LOTR films were ever to write a book, I’m sure he will have to call it “How to shoot yourself royally in the foot, destroy your company’s reputation and murder [...]

Scrobble

January 10th 2007 | 23:29 | Music

The decision to put my entire music collection onto random for the purpose of confusing Last.fm has utterly glued me to my computer.  It’s like crack.  I just have to know what the next track is going to be, and now that I’ve decided not to skip anything, I’ve found myself listening to very strange [...]

Things I wish I’d found.

January 6th 2007 | 21:25 | Music | Net joy

I wish I could say I was the one to find this, but Jen deserves all the credit in the world for unearthing this little gem. It’s a simple little website called (and I shit you not) ‘Sex In Christ.‘ It is a faith based website for those of you out there who want [...]

The Mire

January 3rd 2007 | 14:01 | Uncategorized

I was trawling through the mire that is mid-afternoon freeview, waiting for Scrubs to start, when my remote unfortunately stop arbitrarily on E4 just as it was showing ‘Westlife’s Favourite Love Songs.’  Now, for those of you who don’t know Westlife, kiss the ground you walk on and praise whichever nonspecific deity you subscribe to.  [...]

That’s (Huckn)all I needed to know.

January 3rd 2007 | 01:03 | Uncategorized

There is, I think, too much of a tendency in some people, myself included, to view this beginning part of the year as an unruly hellpit of despair. After all, your previous problems are magnified through the burden of expectation, money is too tight to mention (unless you’re Mick Hucknall. If you are, [...]