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Month: March 2004

  • Waterstones and David Icke

    Waterstones has a new promotion in store at the moment, in which their staff have chosen their 150 favourite books which are displayed prominently in store, and press adverts highlight individual books accompanied by specific recommendations by staff members from around the country. (A brief aside here – I’m really not convinced that this is…

  • Alex Cox Diary Stopping Again

    I’m disappointed to read that Alex Cox is stopping his diary again. He wrote it for the Beeb’s film website for a while, but you get the feeling that it got a little too political for them. It’s a shame, because he’s an interesting guy who isn’t in the film industry for quite the same…

  • The Singing Detective

    I spent a large chunk of the weekend watching The Singing Detective for the first time since it was originally broadcast in 1986. Here’s an admission – I’ve still got the Radio Times from that week with a rather cool cover featuring the artwork from the series (think 1940s paperback pulp paperbacks). The series has…

  • The Seville Communion

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  • YHA Adventure Shops

    So what’s the story with YHA Adventure Shops? Their main London branch used to be in Southampton Row in Covent Garden, but they moved out some time ago (and I think Ellis Brigham moved in from across the road). Instead, they took a three floor shop on Wardour Street which is pretty odd. For those…

  • Dasani Recalled

    It goes from bad to worse for Dasani – the newly launched Coca Cola water, which was quickly “revealed” to be purified tap water. It seems that bromate levels are too high, and as a result 500,000 bottles are being recalled. You can see the UK launch of Dasani going down in the marketing text…

  • Stuck In A Rut

    It’s not often that I pay Janet Street-Porter all that much attention, but in today’s Independent (no direct link since at time of writing I couldn’t get onto the site, and in any case, the article is bound to be for subscibers/payees only) she makes an excellent case for responding to the government’s consultation on…

  • What’s My Motivation?

    I’m quite enjoying this week’s Book of the Week on Radio 4 – What’s My Motivation by Michael Simkins, detailing his experiences trying to become an actor. Listen to it via the Radio 4 website.

  • Thoroughly Modern Millie

    This is an odd one. I don’t really like musicals that much. Indeed, I usually go out of my way to avoid them. Real theatre is drama to me. But when I was offered tickets to this show tonight, I immediatly accepted. Why? Well it’s not because I’m an particular fan of the star, Amanda…

  • Copy Control – Part 2

    As a follow up to my previous entry, I couldn’t help but notice that the Norah Jones CDs available in Fopp are different to the one I bought. They don’t mention Copy Control anywhere on the cover. I did read somewhere on the web when I was fuming before, that EMI only use Copy Control…

  • Olympics Via Broadband

    According to this press release detailing BBC1’s summer season, the BBC will be streaming the Olympics via broadband as well as on television. They’ve obviously pulled quite a coup off to do this, but I fear that as a Demon customer, I’ll be missing out, since it’s bound to be a very limited service for…

  • The Same Letter Over and Over

    I’d think that if I was someone reasonably senior in an organisation, and were going to send a letter for publication in a trade magazine, that I might check to see if they were willing to publish it. So if, for example, I worked for Identica, and wanted to comment on the Dasani tap water…