For a few years now I’ve been a devotee of Iron Chef America, the ludicrous US remake of an already fairly strange Japanese cookery show in which two chefs compete to make four dishes in an hour. Put like that, the format sounds fairly standard, but unlike other cookery shows Iron Chef is enthralling for the sheer spectacle of top-level chefs working at the top of their game, without pausing to explain their dishes to the viewer or even any concession to the idea that people at home might want to follow the recipes. Read more >
Yellow Magic Orchestra: Londonymo (Commmons, 2008)
Posted on March 19th, 2010 in Music, Reviews | 0 comments
I was pretty down on YMO’s 2008 gig at the Festival Hall. The set list seemed to be an indulgent carve up between various solo and side projects undertaken after Sakamoto, Honsono and Takahashi (sort of) went their separate ways in the mid-80s, with most of the band’s hits and almost all of the gleeful sense of fun that pervades their classic albums missing. Read more >
Away we go
Posted on March 19th, 2010 in Admin | 0 comments
Right, it appears I’m having another crack at blogging. This one will be about music, TV, art ‘n’ culture, politics, technology and the kind of films that probably don’t belong on the soon-to-be-relaunched Black Lagoon. Hopefully I’ve left this introduction wide enough to cover pretty much anything I feel like writing about, but I accept no responsibility if, in six months’ time, this site becomes the go-to resource for figure skating news.