Monday, 03 November, 2025

Author: skullcull


I fail to remember exactly what happened to this magazine — I think it was swallowed up by one of it\’s rivals — The NME if memory serves correctly. I know with these articles I should sit there on wiki Read more…


Buried in the schedule somewhere on BBC 2, I don\’t know anyone who remembers this weird little piece of animation. I seem to remember seeing two series (I should wiki that maybe). Anyway — it was one of those cartoons Read more…


When it came out there was nothing out there quite like it — it was edgy, humourous, sexy and intelligent; it was a prime example of MTV hitting the nail squarely on the head. It meshed Western ideas of sci-fi Read more…


The Gambler is the story of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor in the household of The General and his family. This was paired with Notes From The Underground: both of them being fairly short novels and stylistically similar — both of Read more…


It led the way in a lot of respects — taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, Read more…


R.E.M. today premiered their new album on iLike and goddamn if it isn\’t fucking brilliant. I was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed by Around The Sun and I had stupidly expected to never be disappointed by one of their albums. Read more…


I seem to remember this being recommended to me with a line like \’If you say you like Science Fiction then you need to read this.\’ It is different — it has a very different flavour to a lot of Read more…


How the hell can you not be drawn to a character called Lung Leg? I like many people I suppose came to know her through this picture which was used on the cover of Sonic Youth\’s Evol album. As well Read more…


Once again you find weird routes to people — where did I find Polly Jean Harvey? A Canadian Music show they used to show on Anglia television at 2 in the morning. She was sitting in the window of a Read more…


As should be the way, with each new character that is introduced a new layer is added to the story, and thanks to the pacing, the subtlety of which is truly starting to emerge after 6 episodes, each of the Read more…