Archive for December, 2008
Long Live Soup!
You know when you go and see an animated film about a talking mouse, primarily to appease the animated mouse-loving part of your girlfriend’s brain, expecting it to be poorly-conceived and childish schlock but walking away having seen one of the most refreshing pieces of cinema in recent memory? You know that experience? [...]
A Modest Supposition
Suppose for a moment that the end of the world won’t take place in our lifetimes.
It’s a bit of a big supposition, isn’t it? On the same sort of scale as “suppose there are ghosts in your fridge” or “suppose Frosty the Snowman’s magical hat fell into the wrong hands and was used to [...]
Until Next Time…
Do you know any cynics? It wouldn’t surprise me if you did.
Ask a cynic about the cartoons of their childhood and they’ll paint a picture of crass commercial exploit, where glorified 23-minute toy adverts encouraged hyperactive seven year-olds to pester their parents for costly action figures. I, on the other hand, have far rosier memories [...]
My Name is Rhythm, and I am Going to Get You
Has anyone else noticed how, when a crowd starts clapping along to live music without any encouragement from the performer, they always clap on the offbeat? What’s that about?
I’ll tell you what it’s about: it’s about winding me up. Not me exclusively, of course, but all people of a finickety aural nature. [...]
Slagging Off Everyone’s Mum
After I’ve finished typing this, I’m going to listen to Human, by The Killers, all the way through for the first time, and I’m going to enjoy it even if the process actually does kill me.
Do you remember enjoying I Kissed a Girl by Kate Perry? The simple hook? The catchy refrain? [...]
Masochism Centre Edition
I’m currently looking into building myself a media centre. Media centres aren’t a subject I know a great deal about, and whilst carrying out my research I’ve stumbled across LinuxMCE, a media centre environment which is conceptually awesome. If I set this up, I could (in theory) direct our cable service through it, [...]
