Prince's new album is not half bad! Six of the tracks are very good, the rest might be OK, but not to my taste: Somewhere here on Earth is very dull laid-back lounge jazz, Future Baby Mama is straightforward R&B, Mr Good Night is also very R&B with Prince trying to rap, and All the […]
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Planet Earth
July 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Music
Remember the suggestion at the last general election that Labour supporters hostile to Blair should go to the polling station and vote Labour but wear a peg on their nose to show that they were voting Labour in spite of him rather than because of him? Well, I wouldn't mind hearing the new Prince album, […]
Tags: Newspapers
1000 Films – again
June 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
To say that I was pleased to see the Guardian’s list of 1000 films to see before you die skipped over Forrest Gump would be an enormous understatement. I am led to believe that some people actually like it, but for me it is the worst film I have ever seen. The only thing which […]
Tags: Films·Newspapers
1000 Films
June 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
Today the Guardian started a week-long series of pull-outs listing “1000 films to see before you die” which, like most such lists, is surely calculated to stir up controversy. Or to make anyone who takes such things too seriously feel woefully inadequate for not having seen L’Atalante. I will be mildly interested to see how […]
Tags: Films·Newspapers
Freak gardening accident
June 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The phrase ‘freak gardening accident’ will always bring This is Spinal Tap to mind, but they do happen as the Argus reports this week. Fortunately the victim was not a heavy metal drummer so survived with only the loss of 18 inches of hair. Still, the story does raise more questions than it answers. While […]
Tags: Films·Newspapers·WTF
What a difference a day makes
May 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Two headlines from the Argus this week: Tuesday 29th May: Brighton among most secure places in Britain Wednesday 30th May: Police officer’s car stolen – from police station Slightly spoiled by the fact that, when you actually read the second story it is not about Brighton but Arundel. Even so, the first story does have […]
Tags: Brighton·Crime/ASB·Funny·Newspapers
I am not Michael Howard
May 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
I had to smile a bit when I read David Cameron’s bit in today’s Observer. (Well.. started to read and then just skimmed to the end. There was a very clear subtext, so clear that he might just as well have written “I am not Michael Howard. I am not Michael Howard. I am not […]
Tags: Newspapers·Tories
Don’t believe everything you see in the papers
January 21st, 2007 · Comments Off on Don’t believe everything you see in the papers · Life
This article in today’s paper really wound me up. (No link. For some reason the link on their website isn’t working) It is not that I necessarily disagree with Charles Saumarez Smith’s opinions about public funding for the arts, or the effect free admission has had on museum visits or anything like that. No… what […]
Tags: Art·Newspapers
Tory defeat on council housing
January 11th, 2007 · 36 Comments · Politics
This evening there was yet another extraordinary council meeting about the proposed ballot for the transfer of council housing. Since the last meeting the Lib Dem group has grown in size by 50% and in influence by several hundred percent, and after a tedious but well-behaved debate Labour’s amendment was carried by 18 votes to […]
Tags: Crawley Council·Housing·Newspapers
Adverts
January 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life
Remember back in November there were posters for Jools Holland’s album, which were prominently plugging the TV advert (“featuring Vic Reeves”) and giving the address to see it online? Well today’s TV listings in the Guardian had an advert for a PG Tips commercial to be shown at 8:45 tonight. The commercial features the return […]
Tags: Adverts·Fairtrade·Newspapers·Shopping·TV
