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There’s just something gloriously mad about Blade Runner, as it’s a film that is almost impossible to explain to anyone who has never seen it, especially if they start asking awkward questions like “so, why is he called a Blade Runner then?” It’s one of those films that has very slowly and carefully created a [...]

First of all, a heartfelt “Happy 25th Birthday!” from this idiot scribe to the lovely people of Sub Pop Records.  Which feels kind of strange in a way as, to put everything in an awful “how on Earth did that happen?” historical context, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon was a mere 15 years [...]

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Men.  We do like our gadgets, don’t we?  Of course we do.  And the more things that a gadget has to tinker about with in a knowing fashion (“knowing”, usually meaning “what happens when I do this?” – generally leading to “honest, it was like that before I came in” mumbled excuses), the better it [...]

Due to the generally fickle nature of being me as a full-time occupation, I don’t really have many clear-cut favourites of anything much.  At any given moment, I will happily profess my undying love for red wine before sneaking off for an unfaithful sip of a cheeky Chenin Blanc, the morning awful barmcakes are decorated [...]