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I’ve mentioned them before, but I do rather like Shaimus. Not only did they put out a top track in Guitar Hero (the almost title song, All Of This) and a very different but equally excellent album, but I can seemingly invoke them by mentioning their name on my blog. Hello Evan, if the mystical [...]

As ever it seems that I am behind the times. Popping up on Twitter this evening I heard tell of a Tintin movie, the likes of which I could have barely dreamed. I’d seen tales of optioning and the traditional passing from hand to hand of scripts, stories and directors, but not that anything was [...]

It seems that in recent times I have been less than awesome about telling people about some of the (in my mind at least) cool things I’ve been to. So, my rehabilitation begins now with Amplified 2009.

Now, this is no Frankie Boyle or Bob Log III gig, but a day of talking about random stuff [...]

Photo by Phil Campbell
I skived off work yesterday (well, booked the day off well in advance and made sure that my work had cover, but that sounds less rebellious and I’ve always wanted to be a rebel) and wandered down to the ICA for the first of this years Amplified events – a morning of [...]

Darren Aronofsky is an interesting chap. After watching Requiem for a Dream I was certain he was the next big thing and immediately went out to try and find Pi. I watched it eagerly and then wondered why anyone had ever given him money again. Tales of The Fountain started to circulate and then reviews. [...]

I can now stop the obsessive change checking that has dominated the metal money related part of my life for the last couple of months. The circle/shield is now complete and I can spend coins without care of what is depicted upon their rapidly dulling surfaces. That is, of course, unless there is actually a [...]

I like flashmobs. Be it the good old days of people turning up in a bed shop to bounce on mattresses, very organised low-rent ninjas turning up to look confused at a bunch of high-effort fancy dress pirates, or standing still in the middle of a station, the concept appeals to my sense of the [...]

Yesterday I broke out of my ordinary Saturday routine (the one of waking up too early and sitting on my arse complaining about said early waking) and woke up early to wander over to the wilds of Kings Cross to attend Penguin’s BookCamp09. My eReader evangelisation has got me into a few conversations about the [...]

I wouldn’t call myself a Trekker (and I would probably get it wrong and call myself a Trekkie, or whatever other now unfavoured divisional word has been coopted by the media and is thus no longer appropriate for usage amongst the true fans – I still wait for the day that furries decide that they [...]

As part of my “I want to cook more things” push that I’ve imposed on myself this year I made dinner the other day. This might not strike most people as strange, but as I’ve been living on sandwiches, takeaway, bags of grapes and packs of sugarsnap peas in the evenings of last year it’s [...]