intercourse with biscuits

2009

December 125
November 139
October 198
September 100
August 159
July 314
June 406
May 325
April 33
March 19
February 26
January 66

2008

December 137
November 101
October 42
September 67
August 98
July 72
June 115
May 106
April 83
March 19
February
January
Napoleon once contemptuously called England “a nation...
Jan 30th
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Gordon Brown’s speech at Davos is interrupted by his own mobile ringing. Most news reports are...
Jan 30th
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The Damned United trailer. Forget Frost/Nixon, this is the role I’ve been gagging to see...
Jan 29th
“You think of Vegas as Sinatra and cigars and stretch limos...”
— Armando Iannucci writing in...
Jan 29th
Charles Saatchi to appear on X-Factor style...
Jan 27th
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East Anglian Boy  If only Estelle had realised the joys of East Anglia. Nothing better than being...
Jan 27th
“If you could take a drug to feel happy all the time...”
“I'd do it.”
“Wait. There'd have to be a catch. You can't answer until I tell you what the catch is.”
“I don't care. I'd do it.”
“What if you taking it meant someone else would die?”
“How could it? How could it make that happen?”
“It's hypothetical. It's a hypothetical question. A drug that could make you happy all the time doesn't exist.”
“Why would you get my hopes up like that?”
Jan 25th
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Love Lockdown (Kanye West cover) - White Lies It makes a change to hear the indie doom rocker...
Jan 24th
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Derek Nimmo meets Vivian Westwood [cheers Barnsey].  My favourite part is Johnny Rotten whizzing...
Jan 23rd
“Remember this was Photoshopped.”  Photoshop...
Jan 15th
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Mitchell & Webb - Football, Football, Football  “The giants of Charlton play host to the...
Jan 15th
“Your future plan should involve the following: Nothing to...”
—  a note from a friend about...
Jan 14th
“Lily Allen is the only other person apart from me to say...”
— - John “The...
Jan 14th
I’ve been a bit down in the dumps recently and the...
Jan 13th
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Elvis covering Yesterday at a rehearsal in 1970. Why had I never seen this before? 
Jan 13th

Break It Down.

jennabee: The This American Life podcast that aired last week (#88: “Numbers”) ended with a reading...
Jan 12th
“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other...”
— John Lennon  Part 2 in...
Jan 7th
Martin Amis in 1980. He was 31 and had written three novels...
Jan 7th

Ache

Yep, I ache today. Like an old man who’s been left on the bench outside his house too long,...
Jan 7th
Will Oldman profiled in The New Yorker
Jan 6th
For God’s sake woman, put your gusset away!
Jan 6th
Wasabi mashed potatoes.
Jan 6th
I need one of these for the Tumblr dashboard.
Jan 6th
Film Four is making Chris Morris's film about...
Jan 6th
“New Morrissey Album Gives Hope to Music-Making Elderly”
—  NyMag Vulture blog’s...
Jan 6th
“Using her experience as a life coach and her skills as a...”
—  one of my ex-girlfriends...
Jan 6th
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Coraline (released Feb 6)  I really want to see this. That kind of stop motion fascinates me but...
Jan 5th
skysignal: Analog Retirement T-Shirt by BustedTees |...
Jan 5th
Gordon Brown meets Michael Sheen.  Watch out Gordo,...
Jan 5th
“My grief carries no desire for revenge, which I know to be...”
— from Gaza: The death and life...
Jan 5th
"The Cruise persona, like a junk bond, was...
Jan 5th
“In case you missed the bulletin in your post-festive daze,...”
— Charlie Brooker on The...
Jan 5th

Apparently today is the most stressful...

…thankfully I went back to work on Friday, so today should be business as usual. I hope..
Jan 5th

Labour ministers seemingly have a smart...

…where they accuse the opposition parties of being ‘do nothing’ voices. It may...
Jan 4th
Liveblog: The Invasion of Gaza
Jan 4th
People quoting my music predictions as if I...
Jan 4th
“There’s a black crow sitting across from me; his wiry...”
— RE:Stacks - Bon Iver They...
Jan 3rd

Does someone who's brilliant at...

Jan 3rd
The 11th Dr Who is…Matt Smith, aged 26. The youngest...
Jan 3rd
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Skins Series 1 Trailer for comparison’s sake.
Jan 3rd
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danw: Skins Season 3 trailer - Quite unimpressed by it, espescially when compared to the Season 2...
Jan 3rd
Listen Listen
Knocked Up (Kings Of Leon cover/remix) - Lykke Li via My Old Kentucky Blog
Jan 2nd
Courtney Love interviewed by Amy Raphael, NME, March 1995...
Jan 2nd
Random Dylan Thomas Poem Generator
Jan 2nd
“The whitewashed invisible skylark Trotting by the...”
— From BBC Wales’s Dylan...
Jan 2nd
“The same number of times as Hemingway and three less than...”
— Jay McInerney turns his...
Jan 2nd

Scarlett Johansson is only 24.

I always assume that celebrities are older than me somehow but the fact is, if you’re famous,...
Jan 2nd
The Times on Britain's tiniest radio station
Jan 2nd
Deserted London  A photo set by IanVisits of London on...
Jan 2nd
“She’s more nervous than a very small nun at a penguin...”
— DCI Gene Hunt, Life On Mars 
Jan 2nd
Basset Hound Befriended By Owl  In other news - war and...
Jan 2nd
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Help The Police  Adam Buxton with his child safe version of the NWA classic. 
Jan 2nd
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a...”
— Hunter S Thompson, Fear And...
Jan 2nd
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Human (Killers cover) - Jonna Lee  Inspired by the mass reblogging of her Postal Service cover. 
Jan 2nd

In celebration of JD Salinger's 90th...

Q. Have you written any full-length works of fiction during the past 20 years which have not been published?
JDS. Could you frame that a different way? What do you mean by a full-length work? You mean ready for publication?
Q. As opposed to a short story or a fictional piece or a magazine submission.
JDS. It's very difficult to answer. I don't write that way. I just start writing fiction and see what happens to it.
Q. Maybe an easier way to approach this is, would you tell me what your literary efforts have been in the field of fiction within the last 20 years?
JDS. Could I tell you or would I tell you?
Jan 2nd
Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf at Tate Modern 2006. By...
Jan 2nd
“No disrespect to Lily Allen but we know too much about her....”
— thecocknbullkid in an...
Jan 2nd
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“Colon. The most talked about act since Kurt Cobain did some interior decorating with a gun...
Jan 2nd
Alan McGee's tips for 2009 reviewed
Jan 2nd

Sometimes it's hard not to judge a promo...

I should really listen to the Popes Of Chilltown’s CD but I really can’t face it....
Jan 2nd
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Andy Warhol’s weird interview with Spielberg (featuring constant interjections from Bianca...
Jan 2nd
“Mic Wright New bands editor, Q magazine White Lies’...”
— Me in The Guardian today....
Jan 2nd

Um...

The other day I found myself thinking about what I want to be when I grow up. I’m nearly 25.
Jan 1st
“If riches cannot eliminate need, but on the contrary create...”
— Boethius, 524 A.D.
Jan 1st
Graffiti (Truman Brewery, Brick Lane) 31.12.08
Jan 1st
“Beat The Star…sounds like a euphemism for anal sex but...”
— Charlie Brooker (Screenwipe...
Jan 1st