March 2010
26 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Pulp (53)
Reverend Horton Heat (24)
Cousteau (20)
Suede (20)
The Duckworth Lewis Method (15)
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Being short, my selection has been limited to cars so small that putting on the...
– Sandi Toksvig on buying a car.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Lawrence Arabia (30)
Jarvis Cocker (26)
Pulp (21)
Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery (20)
Reverend Horton Heat (19)
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…perhaps some kind of low-grade sensational fiction will survive, produced...
– George Orwell foresaw Dan Brown as far back as 1946.
When I said I wanted to be your dog,
I wasn’t coming on to you.
I just...
– Jens Lekman, “When I Said I Wanted to be Your Dog”
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
George Harrison (34)
John Lennon (29)
Jarvis Cocker (22)
Roy Orbison (20)
The Fireman (13)
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By a sad coincidence, last week I said that the headline “Foot heads arms...
– Simon Hoggart, The Guardian (6th March 2010)
One of life's great challenges...
is moisturising while you have a beard.
All alone in this world am I
Not a care for this world have I
Only you keep my...
– George Harrison
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The killer of Jamie Bulger should not receive a...
Jon Venables has allegedly committed an offence which breaks the terms of his license and therefore returns him to prison, having served just 8 years as a juvenile for his part in the murder of two-year-old James Bulger in 1993. Venables and co-perpetrator Robert Thompson were just 10 at the time.
I cannot imagine the stress, strain and sorrow that Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, has been...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Scott Walker (57)
Kashmir (29)
Eurythmics (19)
Arcade Fire (19)
Hockey (16)
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Let’s face it: if you discovered he doesn’t have a belly button or...
– Charlie Brooker on David Cameron (The Guardian G2, 8th March)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Philip Glass (46)
Kashmir (20)
J.G. Thirlwell (20)
Lalo Schifrin (18)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (17)
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VIDEO: Hello, Mr. Owl →
Pant-wettingly scary.
More from 'The Habit of Art'
Boyle: Professor Tolkien was dining in Hall.
Auden: That's a shame. I like him.
Boyle: Written another book, apparently.
Auden: Really? More fucking elves, I suppose.