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Was making a coffee in the kitchen at work just now, and for some reason the following sentence popped into my head: You put snot on the ball? Stopped me dead in my tracks, that did. What relevance does that have to anything? After a moment’s pause, it occurred to me that it was a…
That’s a bad Beatles paraphrase. Seemed relevant to mention The Beatles at the minute, seeing as everyone else is. As I understand it the hype’s been whipped up surrounding the release of 2 “new” products: the Beatles Rock Band console game, and a remastered £180 14-album CD box set. Not owning a games console (or…
Hello Dolly isn’t typically the kind of musical I’d embrace, in my jaded old age – written in the 1960s, it very much embodies the fanciful & superficially wholesome stereotypical thing which kinda irritates me about the entire genre. You know what I’m talking about. As soon as the curtain goes up the scene gets…
Tricky, this one – many people would argue that one’s top ten albums are one of the most important and revealing lists a person can publicly make. I’ve always maintained that in my hypothetical Desert Island Discs list, I’d take 5 copies of Dark Side Of The Moon just in case one or two of…
A comment on my previous post (from Wurst, who I gather breezed in from Stonch’s Beer Blog) brought up the turbulent topic of celebrity lookalike-ness. He asserted that I looked like “a cross between Jaz Coleman and that singer who was in that show with an American guy from the Mighty Boosh!”. Thankfully, Wikipedia was…
Being careful here not to make the same mistake as a British TV poll of the public regarding their top 100 cartoons: this is specifically a list of the cartoons/series, rather than a list of some series, some characters. And it’s all cartoons, too – no other forms of animation. 1. Daffy Duck / Looney…