Paulie’s session at the spiritualist is a comedy masterpiece. But seeing that clip in the doc, I realised much of what the medium was saying seemed to be “accurate” hence Paulie freaking out. That hadn’t […]

Absolutely loved this. And the ending genuinely made me LOL

Yumove smells absolutely rank but dog gobbles it down happily enough and yes, it seems to have had a positive effect on his stiff back legs

Here in NW London, the local vets seem to be part of a marketing mafia – sorry, chain of devoted animal lovers. When I take my aging dachshund in for his ailments and routine checkups. I’ve noticed increasingly, […]

One of my favourite St Etienne tracks, Girl VII from Foxbase Alpha suddenly goes into this weirdly beguiling, spoken-word, polite rap. “June 4th, 1989… Primrose Hill, Staten Island Chalk Farm, Massif […]

chapeau, Freddy

^^^ In all the tumult and noise of the last few days this succinctly summarises the whole exercise perfectly

@fentonsteve – but they can’t go for that, no can do, etc.

Hooky rejoining New Order, might be nice but seems bridges haven’t so much been burnt as firebombed to smithereens

The other day Pete Kember acknowledged the 40th anniversary of the first spacemen recordings, and sent hearty thanks to Jason, Natty, etc. So there could well be a thaw happening on the upper slopes of space mountain

I remember leaving a screening half way through, of some Neil Young and Crazy Horse film at the Prince Charles cinema in Leicester Sq many years ago as it was just endless blokes in plaid trudging around each […]

For reasons too tedious to go into, for my first year at university I acquired the nickname Bob. Got used to exaggerated “Bob” pretty quickly. Happy days

Which was nice

Even worse than “Just a Gigolo”?!

Can’t You Hear Me Knocking – Mick T’s entire solo is pure euphoria

Musk is a Trumpian provocateur, still getting his revenge on the girls who laughed at him when he was 13. Or on his dad who said he’d never amount to anything, or whatever it was that made him into such a […]

I don’t know – I found the re-emergence of Begbie as a reformed character as a Californian artist a bit of a leap of faith

@podicle I totally understand. For long dog walks, I can’t focus properly on non fiction and get all distracted constantly pausing and scrolling back because I missed something important while scraping dogshit off […]

I mean, you say this now, but I honestly wouldnt be surprised if he contrived to ‘die’ and be resurrected the day before the polls open. “It’s a miracle!” etc.

Those senior Republicans have had since 2014, 2015 to realise they have hitched their wagon to an absolute monster but since no one came near to rivalling him in terms of appeal to a vast rump of Americans, […]