The Breast Of Both Worlds

In a weird, synchronous echo left over from last night’s concert-listening, my friend Biddy called me earlier today from the Glastonbury Festival and held her phone out to the stage while Crowded House played ‘Fingers Of Love’. I stood in the street outside Richmond Police Station grinning like a fool as Neil Finn warbled and [...]

Earwigging The Jovi

I seem to have a knack for living by really cool concert venues. A few years ago I got to sit on my sofa and listen to The Three Tenors (Domingo, Carreras and Pavarotti) singing live just a few hundred metres away from my house in Bath. Then The Rolling Stones played Twickenham Stadium and [...]

Wanted: Dead Or Alive

Many thanks to those of you who got in touch to tell me that the Buffy episode I was trying to recall was “The Wish”. I know this week’s Doctor Who shared a lot of similarities with that episode (not to mention other obvious ‘parallel world’ staples such as It’s A Wonderful Life), but it [...]

Holy Who!

Halfway through tonight’s episode of Doctor Who I sent a text message to my mate Biddy which read:
“This is fucking awesome.”
“Fucking right it is,” came the reply.
And it was! It also really reminded me of an episode of Buffy, more than any other Who episode I’ve ever seen, but I’ll be buggered if I can [...]

Badly Titled Movies

I just watched the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore version of Bedazzled, kindly provided for my viewing pleasure by the woman decorating my flat (she got West Side Story and Riding Giants in return). It was fun, although the best thing about it was discovering that apparently Heaven is located in Syon House, a mere 20 minute [...]

Paint Jobs, Mail Thieves And The Return Of A Whip-Cracker

And… I’m back! Apologies for the long delay – the longest I’ve ever left this blog, I believe, to my eternal shame. I’d love to update this thing every day and use it as a diary to keep track of my life (which was what I intended to do when I first started blogging three [...]

This is all getting rather annoying now.

I really want to update this blog with my thoughts on Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, what I’ve been up to recently, what I made of the Lost/House/Supernatural finales (and more, because it’s been a wonderful year for finales), but instead I’m bonkers busy and barely finding the time to brush [...]