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7 Songs

I am such a slack dude. As well as being a woefully infrequent blogger, I am guilty of not paying due attention to my fellow bloggers. One of these is my man Adrien Begrand, respected heavy metal critic and all round top bloke. It turns out he ‘tagged’ (or ‘tigged’, which was the terminology weContinue reading “7 Songs”

From Popbitch

>> Brass neck << BBC say Airline Plot good, Morris bad? Chris Morris. Role model for news and comedy shows on TV. He has a brilliant new show idea. The Brass Eye provocateur has written a comedy about a Jihadi wannabe suicide bomber cell in the North of England. It’s funny and topical. The perfectContinue reading “From Popbitch”

The End of the Line

So I bought Metallica’s latest album, Death Magnetic, today. I wasn’t going to. Requested to write about it for FACT, I had been coincidentally passed a memory stick containing the album while at work yesterday. Sadly it was a bit-rate of 192kb/s and my headphones exposed the mp3 files for the sham the format is.Continue reading “The End of the Line”

R.I.P. Evan Tanner

I found out today from someone at work that Evan Tanner is dead. Not the most famous, nor the most accomplished, mixed martial artist, Tanner was nevertheless a fighter I held close to my heart. One of the middle guard (so after the period where anything went, and before the present day of ‘MMA’ gyms;Continue reading “R.I.P. Evan Tanner”