TCB, Elvis
Friday would have been the 75th birthday of Mr Elvis Aaron Presley, a name you probably won’t need to look up in Wikipedia. Like most […]
Movie Haiku: My favourite films of 2009
As a blogger, I’m contractually obliged to produce and publish annual lists of things. It’s one of those tedious tasks you try to put off […]
Happy Christmas to you all (and that includes YOU!)
(Through The Viewfinder photograph of yours truly courtesy of Birmingham Blogfather and […]
Curb Your Indifference
Over the last couple of years Clare has become a big fan of the seminal 90s sitcom Seinfeld. This, it must be said, is largely […]
Filakeo
‘You’ve all seen that Busch beer commercial where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it […]
Our Man Iannucci
The satirical comedy The Thick of It – the third series of which is currently being broadcast by the Beeb – is officially my […]
Edward Woodward, 1930-2009
I’ve left it a wee bit late, but I just wanted to say […]
Tom Waits, Kool Keith: Spacious Thoughts
Taken from hip-hop duo NASA’s Spirit of Apollo CD – which features a multitude of mouth-wateringly eclectic musical collaborations – here’s the video for Tom […]
Welcome to Wayne’s World
As a delicate, dreamy soundscape filled both tiers of a new and extremely packed Birmingham Academy last Tuesday night, a silhouetted dancing girl drenched in […]
Fighting like Bats and Bonds
I went to Worcester last weekend to catch up with my old pal Phil. He and his lovely fiancée Beth are getting married at the […]