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| La Oreja de van Gogh, Amaia Montero | | (And... Andrew Ridgley?) | | 01 December 2008 | | When a band's iconic lead singer "goes solo" in search of more money artistic freedom, it rarely ends well for both the singer and the musicians he or she leaves behind. In fact, we can think of only two genuine examples where both have prospered, and one of them is Genesis, so we are taking a very loose definition of the term "prospered"! (The other being Van Halen.)
So when Amaia Montero announced that she was leaving La Oreja de van Gogh, we understood that there was only ever likely to be ONE George Michael in this divorce.
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| Voices Of A Distant Star | | (And The Democratization of Popular Culture) | | 01 November 2008 | | | Makoto Shinkai's anime 'short', Voices of a Distant Star, is not the greatest movie ever made - the animation is jerky, with a shocking amount of re-use for such a short film; the battle scenes are confusing and derivative; and following the plot is a bit like reading one of those Choose Your Own Adventure books IN CHAPTER ORDER! However, it is also possibly the most culturally significant movie of the 21st Century. | | More... |
| Private Practice | | (And How It Might Have Gotten That Way!) | | 01 September 2008 | | | As a computer programmer, we often find ourselves peeking at OTHER people's software and wondering how it works. Will study the URL of a web site for database keys and session identifiers; or step through a linked source file to see how a particular piece of JavaScript functionality operates. (We were particularly impressed recently by the way StudiVZ.de disables Firefox's disabling of JavaScript's ability to disable right click!) So we should not have been especially surprised when an actress-friend of ours mentioned that she does the exact same thing when she watches a television program. But we were... | | More... |
| Source Safe | | (And Why Your Source Control Server Is Like The Bronx In 1985) | | 01 July 2008 | | | Okay... okay... so we use Source Safe! We know - it is ugly, unreliable, and so old that it probably has a few Elvis "78"s in the loft. But what we have to say applies to ANY Source Code Control [SCC] system, so quit giggling and listen up! | | More... |
| Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | | (And Why (Indi's) Life Is A Roller-Coaster) | | 01 June 2008 | | FairgroundTown is not a "blockbuster movie" kind of guy. The last one we saw was Spiderman I, which got reasonable reviews at the time, but which left us feeling like we were maybe just getting too old for this sort of thing. Interestingly enough, "too old for this sort of thing" is exactly what people have been saying about Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones film; but when an old school friend suggested it might fill a few hours on a lazy Sunday afternoon, we said "what the hell". | | More... |
| Billy Bragg - Mr Love & Justice | | (And Joining The Aristocracy) | | 01 April 2008 | More... |
| Tales From Earthsea | | (And How Miyazaki Jr. Made A Movie... About Football) | | 01 March 2008 | More... |
| Beatrix Potter | | (And Bachman Turner Overdrive) | | 01 January 2008 | More... |
| John Mellencamp: Freedom's Road | | (And The Reclaiming Of America) | | 01 November 2007 | More... |
| Heroes | | (And Hob-Nob Principle) | | 01 October 2007 | More... |
| Kate Atkinson: One Good Turn | | (And The 'Class' Thing) | | 01 September 2007 | More... |
| 20-TWENTY | | (And Why It Is't Cricket) | | 01 August 2007 | More... |
| What About Brian | | (And The Elephant In The Room) | | 01 July 2007 | More... |
| Excite Truck | | (And The Simple Things In Life) | | 01 June 2007 | More... |
| Life On Mars | | (And How We Was Robbed) | | 01 May 2007 | More... |
| A Way Of Being Free | | (And Why Cain Is Able) | | 01 April 2007 | More... |
| Chris Turner: Planet Simpson | | (And How The Simpsons Has Defined Us!) | | 01 March 2007 | More... |
| Nerina Pallot - Fires | | (And Why I-Tunes Aren't My-Tunes) | | 01 February 2007 | More... |
| 2006 | | (And What We Liked But Failed To Blog) | | 01 January 2007 | More... |
| FIFA '07 DS | | (And The End Of History) | | 01 December 2006 | More... |
| Disney's The Jungle Book | | (And The Limits of Sanitisation) | | 01 November 2006 | More... |
| Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds | | (And Miyazaki's Accidental Stroke of Genius) | | 01 October 2006 | More... |
| Shakira - An Aplology | | (With Apologies To Private Eye) | | 01 September 2006 | More... |
| The Vasa | | (And The Sweedish For Irony) | | 01 August 2006 | More... |
| Sabina - Live at the Estadio de Valencia | | (And The Effects Of Smoking) | | 01 July 2006 | More... |
| Battlestar Galactica | | (And When Low-Budget Sci-Fi Becomes High Art) | | 01 June 2006 | More... |
| Bryan Adams - Room Service | | (And Good Old-Fashioned Working Class Values) | | 01 May 2006 | More... |
| Mike Leigh's All Or Nothing | | (And Poverty Porn) | | 01 April 2006 | More... |
| Nintendo DS | | (And The Primal Urge To Touch) | | 01 March 2006 | More... |
| Shakira - Oral Fixation / Fijacion Oral | | (And Why It's All About The Money) | | 01 February 2006 | More... |
| Weeds | | (And Where The Politics Should Just Get Off) | | 01 January 2006 | More... |
| Harvey Danger - Little By Little | | (And The Future of Rock'N'Roll) | | 01 December 2005 | More... |
| DAB Digital Radio | | (And Why It Will All End In Tears) | | 01 November 2005 | More... |
| Mario Golf - Advanced Tour | | (And How The Games Industry Could Fix Things) | | 01 October 2005 | More... |
| The Canterbury Tales | | (And How We Got From Chaucer To Emimem... And Back Again) | | 01 September 2005 | More... |
| The L Word & The Twighlight Princess | | (And Why Billy Bragg's Uncle Was Right) | | 01 August 2005 | More... |
| Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times | | (And The Speed Of Life) | | 01 July 2005 | More... |
| Urban Architecture In Budapest | | (And HowThe Communists Got It Right For Once) | | 01 June 2005 | More... |
| Dr Who | | (And That 'Difficult' Second Epidode) | | 01 May 2005 | More... |
| Historias Minimas | | (And The Dark Cultural Vocabulary Of Latin Movies) | | 01 April 2005 | More... |
| La Oreja De Van Gogh | | (And How We Define 'Pop' Music) | | 01 March 2005 | More... |
| Desperate Housewives | | (And What Commitment Is All About) | | 01 February 2005 | More... |
| The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap | | (And Why the Games Industry Doesn’t Understand Its Own Business) | | 01 January 2005 | More... |
| The L Word | | (And F/F Sexuality On The Small Screen) | | 01 December 2004 | More... |
| Shakira: Laundry Service | | (And Why Some Things Might Have Been Better Off Lost In Translation) | | 01 November 2004 | More... |
| Miles Cain: Different Destinations | | (And The 'Music' Industry That Isn't) | | 01 October 2004 | More... |
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The point is we are all connected... through love... through loneliness... through one lamentable lapse in judgment!
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