Sunday, 03 August, 2025

Category: updates


in the same way that i got a distinct look of having had shit on a stick waved under my nose when i heard about the new star trek movie, today i got that feeling when i heard about the Read more…


I suppose as a child I was pretty lucky in that my dad\’s taste in programmes pretty much matched mine and my brothers — he was into all the sci-fi stuff and the cartoons (he still plays with lego for Read more…


I would have to watch it again but I think that this series was much better than it was ever  given credit for. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow which is pretty much a guarantee of it being worth watching Read more…


You can\’t really have a section called Rebellious Jukebox without having the person who coined the phrase present and correct. The Fall are a phenomenon: The Fall are Mark E Smith — one of the most original lyricists and vocalists Read more…


today i pretty much joined up on every major blogging site that there is — thankfully it is getting easier to feed stuff from one site to another so you can mount the props a hell of a lot easier. Read more…


A bit of research into this show demonstrates how many times the poor bloody show was chopped to bits and re-assembled into some Frankenstein\’s  Monster version of the Japanese original. It was a groundbreaker though and the fact that it Read more…


A vehicle for Cathal Coughlan\’s intelligence driven bile — the Fatima Mansions could shift from smooth voiced crooning to a visceral car-crash of noise at the drop of a hat. They deserved to be much bigger than they ever were Read more…


The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, Black Box Recorder, The English Travelling Wilburys, Luke Haines solo artiste — the vehicles which Haines has used to get his music out there each have their own character and their own aesthetic, but they all Read more…


It\’s odd how some things just stick in your head and you don\’t have to see them that many times. Most British television, at least sci-fi orientated shows in the 1980s is pretty much typified by bad special effects and Read more…


I must be on a books that inspired me kick at the moment — first Pay It Forward and then this, which I read around the same time. That was fiction and this is true. The other thing that both Read more…