Archive for May, 2007

Lemsip Overdose

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Thanks to my current state of coldfulness I have recently been consuming plenty of the fine lemony beverage that is lemsip. This reminded me, naturally, of a song from a Guitarist magazine Readers Jives CD, from about 10 years ago.
On searching I couldn’t find a single google hit (only an american band of the same [...]

The Only Formulas Are Chemical

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

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Once again I am bringing light to the miserable CSI darkness with [...]

The Dirty South

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Disappointingly for all the Drive By Truckers fans, this is the fourth of my world famous 94-96 hip hop posts, cunning focused on the South.
Considering there are so many more high profile artists and lables (rap-a-lot and no limit to name but two), it was suprisingly difficult to pull this one together, but that just [...]

And where the hell is Wish?

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Live Blogging of the local council results in Brighton is occuring, and I’m feeling all West Wing just thinking about it. In common with the rest of country, the Tories have dominated, though the greens doubled their seats (6 to 12) which is a bit of a leap.
The final ward has now been declared. [...]

TV Rating Refinements

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

After a discussion with high powered consultantancy firm AvisStanyerClarke last night over sushi, we have come up with some notes or refinements for the bus rating system. Firstly, it was noted that the best characters would have a non-zero rating, as if you don’t occasionaly want a character to get hit by a bus [...]

Roots in the Midwest

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

After much trawling, the third 94-96 hippity hop compilations crunches home, this time featuring the midwest. This was much trickier than the previous two - there simply weren’t that many major releases from the region.
Still, there was plenty happening on the underground, and I’ve tried to pick and mix where’s best. There were a few [...]