Part 1 – I’ve Been Losing You The Blood that Moves the Body It had been a full week since Morten Harket’s unsuccessful job interview at the Acme Bank Company. The words of the bespectacled manager Ron McDonald echoed in his brain: “how can I stop now”… “Indeed,” he thought to himself, “how can I stop […]
It seems that about six years ago I wrote seven ‘shorts’ about a man called Morten Harket who wasn’t the guy from a-ha. Morten was not complicated. He was a nice man with a loving wife and all he wanted was to work, pay the bills and try and get through a day without somebody bringing up […]
Once again I was a s-h-one-t blogger this year. I think I’ve become far too concerned with offending or rubbing people up the wrong way (rubbing up against people is actually a lot of fun) so often refrain from posting my sometimes-obtuse views. Maybe in 2013 I can shed my tender skin and reveal the […]
Album Title: Music From Another Dimension Artist: Aerosmith Year: 2012 Running Time: 80m 38s Track listing: 1. LUV XXX; 2. Oh Yeah; 3. Beautiful; 4. Tell Me; 5. Out Go the Lights; 6. Legendary Child; 7. What Could Have Been Love; 8. Street Jesus; 9. Can’t Stop Lovin’ You; 10. Lover Alot; 11. We All Fall Down; 12. Freedom Fighter; […]
And everything is all too fast / Just add water, nothing’s built to last That was certainly the case when my sixteen month old Nook Simple Touch e-reader starting acting the twat last week. Not overly-used and rarely leaving my bedside, I was left with an unresponsive screen once it was disconnected from the mains. I […]
While watching Katie Taylor batter another peer in to irrelevance this week, even my extreme dislike for patriotism and jingoism was put on hold. Katie is such a legend that I’d happily let her beat me around the head (maybe not the face directly) with her big gloves while she repeatedly told me that I […]
Rascal Flatts. The musical act who, until a few short weeks ago, I thought was a rapper What do you do when someone offers you a free ticket for a band – the aforementioned Rascal Flatts – you’ve never heard before? I mean I’ve turned down free tickets before, notably to see The Corrs (after all, […]
Phase Atrix About 15 months ago I dumped my (small, well-formed but anemic) Blackberry Bold 9700 for the sexy, dual-core world of Android – namely the Motorola Atrix. The Atrix was the most powerful smartphone at the time – two big fat cores (which means it goes fast), lots of RAM, a slick four inch […]
Starring: Jason Williams, Amy Van Horne, Devin Clark, Nadine Crocker, Gracie Largent, Luke Barnett Director: Geoff Meed Genre: Horror Cert: 18 Released: 2011 It was only a matter of time until the ‘found footage’ format reached The Amityville franchise. In the latest direct-to-DVD installment – aside from 2005’s original remake, it’s the first since the […]
Has anyone ever gone to Fitzpatricks Hotel in Manhattan on the basis of that advert that has been running before in-flight movies for seven years? I fast forward even though sometimes I go too far and end up far forwarding in to my movie. Which makes me resent Fitzpatricks even more. I know it is […]
