Book Notes - Peter Terzian ("Heavy Rotation")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. If you have ever read this blog, you know how enamored I am of the worlds of...... (

Live Preview: Rothbury Festival 2009

I wonder if Robert Plutchik was a live music fan?  And I wonder if he would've enjoyed going to Rothbury Music  Festival this weekend. For the sake of this post I'm guessing he probably was a live music fan to some degree.  And I'd also say that he would've loved to go Rothbur

Take That @ Old Trafford

Going towards company headquarters to wake the officers I saw a man lying on his face in a machine-gun shelter. I stopped and said: “Stand-to, there!� I flashed my torch on him and saw that one of his feet was bare. The machine-gunner beside him said: “No good talking to hi

RIP Steven Wells

Due to illness, moving house, etc, my next batch of track reviews is taking longer than I anticipated. The rate of blog-productivity will be on the up, no doubt, once I am safely relocated this weekend. But I feel like I have to break my blog-silence to mark the passing of Steven

Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book (1965)

When I first started cooking for myself and others, almost thirty years ago now, I frequently turned to Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book. The celebrated creator of spy Harry Palmer (a kind of antidote to James Bond) has said that this book and its “cookstrips� are his best w

The Queen of Gastroporn

Nigella Lawson attends the premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen’s piss poor film _Bruno_ at Leicester Square in London. This is a comment from the _Daily Mail _website: How many times do we have to see Nigella in that same black dress? A snore, a snore, a bore. It’s time that Nige

Jan Moir Hates Sweater Stretcher Nigella Lawson

This is all I can be bothered to post. I’m working on my 10 favourite recordings of Mahler’s symphonies and the best way to bake an aubergine. It’s an article by someone called Jan Moir in the piss poor bitchy right wing scare-mongering hypocritical semi-pornographic _Dail

I'll Have To Think About This

Days of Our Lives have pulled out the stops and announced that fan favourite characters, some also tinkering on veteran status, are making a comeback to the shows canvas. Announcements that Crystal Chappell and Wally Kurth are coming back to Salem as Dr Carly Manning and Justin K

Letterman's Half @$$ed Apology

David Letterman has been on the hot seat ever since he did a monologue in which he trashed Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter. Everyone but Letterman himself was appalled that he made misogynist jokes about not only Sarah Palin but about her family as well. Finally, a week later,