Apparently guys don’t get Pinterest. This is not just a sweeping generalisation based on idle speculation, figures released by the service back this up stating that Pinterest’s user base is 80% female. Statistics aside, a cursory glance at this media sharing site’s content will convince you of this, as it mainly consists of pictures of [...]
Other than The Walking Dead (which is a TV series not a film), I’ve pretty much eschewed new zombie films. As a genre it’s all become so hackneyed and repetitive, like vampires and pop music. But on reading the summary of Pontypool (even the name offers an air of incongruous mystery) it didn’t seem much like a [...]
It’s about an hour before lunch time and you’ve realised that you’d meant to go shopping and stock up the fridge, but totally forgot. It’s minus 10 degrees and blowing a horizontal blizzard outside so a trip to the shop is out of the question. You frantically search the fridge, larder and cupboards for something [...]
Black Metal, despite its hard core of meatheaded but vocal purists, has been blossoming into new and interesting forms for some time. Many of these are created by the politically agnostic disciples of BM’s looney right-wing flag-bearer and prime innovator Varg Vikernes. Burzum’s hypnotic fuzz and anguished screeching has proved the unlikely progenitor of what [...]
Folks have nasty tendency to overcomplicate food, and the classic dishes are not immune to this, in fact they’re usually the most abused. Carbonara is a case in point. Basically used as a proxy for ‘pasta with cheese and bacon sauce’ you never know what you’re going to get when ordering this at a restaurant. [...]
Pasta needn’t shy and retiring. It needn’t be run of the mill and bland. Pasta can kick you in the face. This recipe will kick you in all your faces like a boot with chillis stapled to it (the staples applied from the inside with their protruding spikes having been allowed to rust good and [...]
Seeking out new music is one of my favourite pastimes. I do it a LOT, and I find my self listening to a multitude of different bands and genres. I’m almost pathological. I don’t like all, or even a lot of what I discover, but if it sounds interesting I’ll give it a go. I’ll often listen [...]
I can’t be bothered to moan about the whole piracy/copyright vs. the creative culture thing again. I’ve bemoaned the situation countless times before. I hate repeating myself. But my irritation and exasperation at the music and (to a slightly lesser extent) movie industry just won’t got away, and they just keep behaving like a bunch [...]
There’s a couple of things that make me want to chew my own fist off with anguish and horror 1) people eating muffins from the top (this is just wrong, nee immoral folks. A vile habit that needs stamping out) and 2) folks using a small, half-blunt knife to chop carrots (or some other vegetable) [...]
A Canticle for Leibowitz’s millennial and cyclical nature makes it among the most nightmarish of all post-apocalypse novels. A collection of three interrelated short stories set 600 years apart, A Canticle… begins 600 years after the ‘Flame Deluge’ (presumably a nuclear war) that wiped out our civilization. What followed was a rebellion (the Simplification) against [...]
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