Year: 2019
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Horace goes IP Trolling
Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…
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RIP Marvin (Stephen Moore)
Life? Don’t Talk To Me About Life…RIP Marvin – he’s finally gone to silicon heaven. Stephen Moore who voiced Marvin The Paranoid Android in Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy TV and radio series (and thus is the only Marvin to me) has sadly died aged 81. Marvin is and was a hero of mine, I…
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BREXIT DISCO DO THE ENGLISH HUSTLE
It says here: “A shining disco symphony for the dark days of Brexit. Features three years worth of total bullshit, set to music. It’s the musical antidote you never imagined, for the crisis you never wanted. ” – which says it all really. Yes, Article 52 presents The Hustle, a disco album about Brexit, and…
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Jonathan Pie & Extinction Rebellion
Let me say here – if it’s not been obvious – I support Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg. I find the people who criticise protest to be twunts of the highest order – protest is nearly always good (fascists marching through black/brown/Jewish neighbourhoods or Orangemen doing same can get in the sea though) but…
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RIP David Cain
Sad to hear of the death yesterday of composer David Cain of BBC Radiophonic Workshop fame. Here’s October from his famous ‘The Seasons’ album with poetry from Ronald Duncan which you might have heard via Trunk Records or 6Music – especially Jarvis Cocker’s show who played every month on his show for a year.
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How Star Wars Was Saved
Everyone knows how George Lucas goes back and tinkers with Star Wars, ad infinitum (I remember watching the pre-CGI versions just before he re-released them the first time, those versions are almost impossible to find officially now). What they don’t know is that Star Wars almost flopped because of the story and structure, a lot…