The Tearoom of Despair

In the great catalogue of dodgy Britpop tunes from the mid-1990s, Pulp's two albums - full of killer beats and universal themes - still ...

It's not hard to pick holes in your average big movie. The nature of mass collaboration and desperate commercial imperatives means ever...

Angelo Badalamenti might have left this world behind, but his music still has extraordinary power, especially in the night, especially on th...

The woman at the counter gives me a funny look when I give her the money to buy House of Raging Women . I’m standing in a weird little remai...

Another Robert Smith once told me there were 25,000 people with that name in the United States, which means there must be about 50,000 in t...

It's always fun to bore the living shit out of my workmates who are more than half my age, going on about how entertainment options were...

Last week I bought a comic that I hate so much it makes me want to cry. It's not a modern comic, and this is none of your modern h...

Teenage obsessions burn so brightly and usually fade away just as fast, but they can leave behind a lingering fondness that does no real har...

Lobo is a one-joke character, and if you think that joke is puerile, immature or obscene, it’s obviously not the comic for you. I fraggin’ l...