Watched the first episode of E4′s new teen drama Skins, expecting a horrific car crash of clichés and trends, but was most pleasantly surprised to find that it was at the very least a watchable, and at times very well written and made piece of fluff. I shall continue to watch at this rate, no [...]
I think it’s very encouraging that the American media seem to have lifted the veil of partisanship that’s cloaked them throughout the Bush presidency. One example would be this excellent interview with Dick Cheney from CNN, in which Dick Cheney is basically made to bend over and apologise for being a naughty boy in Iraq. [...]
For some reason Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe was irritating me at the back end of last year, and yet here we are in a new year and it is making me chuckle like a churlish schoolchild. Going full-time in telemarketing hell has to go down as one of the stupidest ideas that has ever come [...]
Immense thanks (or indeed props) go to Heather for pointing out the following video to me: I haven’t laughed that hard in a good long while. However, Miss Heather, I see your Fucking Hoff Style and I raise you this! If you make it to the end of this second one the title of this [...]
Is it so wrong that I’m gaining perverse amounts of pleasure from the premiere of American Idol? I just love watching talentless people being utterly stupefied by people pointing out the measure of their inadequacies. it’s what would never lead me to audition for anything of the like. The nagging, gnawing feeling of ‘but what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 to [...]
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. [...]
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, I’ve been [...]
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