Excellent… I was just looking through the Paste Magazine log files (don’t ask – slow day at work) and I discovered that there is a real boxer called “Robert Allen”. A middleweight apparently. Yesterday someone did a search on him in Google using the string “boxer robert allen”. The top search result for this is Atmospheric Anomaly. Perhaps not what they were looking for. Try it for yourself (although there’s no guarantee that it will…
So it’s that time of year again. Don’t get me wrong, overexposure to Lenny Henry, people in baths of baked-beans and dubious office comedy aside, Comic Relief is generally a good thing. The only reason I mention it is the fact that I had the misfortune to watch one of the episodes of “Celebrity” Fame Academy earlier this week. [Tellingly, the official title for the show doesn’t even actually include the word “celebrity”. Is it…
Some people from “Richard and Judy” are filming at work today. It’s going to be on the show tomorrow, part of a feature on “Medallion man” makeovers. Some of the guys here have volunteered to be given said makeovers (which from what I can tell seems to amount to 70s afro wigs and flares). Of course, if you can’t watch, maybe you’d like to punch them in the face instead. Your choice I guess. [UPDATE:…
Someone sent me this earlier, it’s from yesterday’s guardian: “Sky News, meanwhile, remains cripplingly self-effacing. ‘Of course, you the viewers can have your say on Saddam’s long-range missiles,’ claimed a presenter on Friday. ‘Just press the red button…’” That sort of reminds me of something I saw the other day on one of the shoddy cable channels we get. It was a trailer for a documentary about the conflict in the Gulf in the early…
What’s going on?
Ticket prices for Glastonbury keep going up. According to the official site, they are now going to be £105 plus booking fee. Funny, after the license was approved they said they’d be the same price as last year (£97). About a week later this went up to £100, and now it’s £105… Tickets don’t go on sale for another month, are they just going to keep going up at weekly intervals? Maybe Thom Yorke asks…
I went to see “The Hours” this weekend. Cracking film, definitely recommended and worthy of its inevitable Oscar success. The acting, in particular, is superb. As a resident of South-West London, however, two things particularly amused me (unintentionally so). In the film, Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf, living in Richmond in the early 20th Century, struggling with suicidal tendencies and writing “Mrs Dalloway”. At one point she sends one of her servants off to London…
So I watched the Brit awards last night. Funny, I thought 2002 was quite a good year for music, as there are so many decent bands around at the moment, but apparently I was mistaken. No, it appears that Will Young was the best new act to come out of this country last year (so to speak – sorry that is an appalling joke isn’t it?). All in all, it was perhaps the dullest ceremony…
I get a lot of spam email. Yes, I know it’s a bit of a hackneyed contemporary cliche to get upset about this, but it still bothers me. And ok, so I have a fair idea why I would get a lot of spam, I mean there’s: (1) the Hotmail address, from surely the most spammed email provider of all; (2) the fact that I’m signed into MSN all day at work (hmm, there may…
Thought for the day
Drinking on a school night is never a good idea.
“Is this the way they say the future’s meant to feel, or just 112,000 people standing in a field?”
Glastonbury’s on then. Radiohead to headline the Friday night. Fan-bloody-tastic.