Lincoln is like Frankenstein's monster, in the sense that no matter how little you know about him or where you first saw the man, his image is simplistically iconic. Regardless of the nation we…

One of the blogs I write for, DRUNKEN WEREWOLF, got their monthly Bristol magazine off the ground recently, but as they're not printing the current issue I'm encouraging y'all music loving people to…

Though it's encompassed a little less of my time and energy than music, I've also dabbled in the medium's celluloid cousin, focusing mainly on reviews of foreign and independent DVD releases, but…

Last Updated 26/10/2012 Since I originally started writing music articles online (on a semi-whim), I have gone on to write more than 44 music reviews, conduct 21 interviews with bands and artists and…

Part of the joy of the super culture that is the WWW is it's perpencity to mock superficial faults in our behaviour, and our ability to laugh along with them. Generally this requires only the…

Alright listen up. I hate remakes. It's at best nostalgia gone awry, it's at worst repeating history to make money. Is it any mystery that in the ratio of good to bad remakes, the best are in short…

I was enlightened last father's day not only with the annual reminder that it was father's day, but with a touching memory. Growing up I was given much liberty with what films I could watch. There…

I hate swearing. Not profanity itself; I curse like a sailor. I mean the inane concept that we can brand certain words as inappropriate and use them to censor, control and condemn. When you take into…

Guess what my biggest distraction from my dissertation was? Go on, take a gander When I was younger I watched every episode of this American animated series with such frequency that they could have…

Afraid I'm short on time with this post, with my fingers and brain's attention drawn to academia. Luckily I had this idea for a post locked away like fine cutlery at a Mexican Carwash. I felt my…