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Star Trek: Strange New Words

J.J. Abrams' rather excellent Star Trek film will be available on your home entertainment format of choice this coming Monday. That seems like a reasonably good excuse to dig out the following slice of Trek-themed nonsense from my archives: [imagebrowser id=1] It's a short parody of Star Trek: The Next Generation (or should that now be Star Trek: The Previous Generation?) that was illustrated by my pal Rob Walsh, a proper artist (he has exhibitions and stuff) who was gracious enough to illustrate several comic strips for me in the past. Rob's a tremendously talented chap and I think he [...]

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 end of the month and they've asked me to be their Best Man. This makes me very proud. Phil and I drank beer, stayed up late and chatted about the various things that we've been chatting about for years. While I was there he introduced me to a couple of rather excellent movie trailer mash-ups that I hadn't seen before. A mash-up, in case you don't already know, is where two or more movie trailers [...]

Robin Ince at the Electric Cinema

Mr review of Robin Ince's recent gig at the Electric Cinema is now up on Brum comedy site Who's Laughing Now?. You can find it here. After the show I ended up briefly chatting (or elbowing my way into a conversation) with Mr Ince, who turned out to be a tremendously nice bloke. I like it when that happens. We talked about Jaws, Highlander and British Sex Comedies of the 1970s (well, he'd just performed at the former Tivoli Cinema, after all). Eventually, we moved onto the subject of those forgotten films you still can't get on DVD, and - [...]

What Goes Round

So, Britain’s best-selling red-top is back in the blue camp again. I can’t say I was particularly surprised when The Sun’s 12 year love-in with New Labour came to an end the other week. Maybe it’s because my political conscience first rolled off the production line during the 1980s, but I’ve always struggled to think of the Soaraway One as anything other than a vicious little Tory rag. For me, at least, its recent volte-face was a bit like the Angling Times announcing a return to fishing-themed coverage after a decade or so spent focusing on musical theatre. I’ve never [...]

A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

I went to see comedian Robin Ince at Birmingham's Electric Cinema last Thursday. He was performing his new one-man show - Robin Ince vs. the Moral Majority - as part of this year's Birmingham Comedy Festival. The bulk of the show consisted of a vicious yet hilarious attack on the so-called quality press and - in that respect at least - it was not unlike the final season of The Wire, albeit with more punchlines and less drive-by shootings. Ince was on remarkably good form and I've written a glowing review about it and everything. I'll tell you about that [...]

Deface Value

Seamlessly following on from my previous post, this appeared on The Guardian's Music Blog back in 2007: Opening this Thursday, a new exhibition at London's Art Vinyl gallery, entitled De-Face Value, will showcase hand-painted re-workings of [Phil Collins'] No Jacket Required LP sleeve by artists and musicians... No explanation required.

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