The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

My latest Pandora find is the thoroughly excellent 'Mr Brown', by Styles of Beyond. This falls into the category both of the current...

My guess is that you will fall into one of two categories. You will find this to bring you an unexpected joy, like meeting an old friend in...

I recently saw the move 'Source Code'. It's not bad - overacted in places (including the head scientist guy, who was badly misca...

One of the laziest rhetorical devices in song-writing is the use of the oppositional 'they'. Usually this is done in relationship so...

- If I were a musician, I would find it infuriating how crowds can't clap in time, but keep getting faster and faster. I find myself alw...

The other day I saw a billboard ad for a movie called 'Arthur'. (You can watch the trailer here , but I wouldn't recommend it). ...

...at a Comedy Central roasting of Donald Trump. What I love about this is that he's largely dispensing with the tradition of mainly hec...

I spent yesterday downloading the rest of the Girl Talk albums . (Incidentally, the illegal art store may be the single worst designed comme...

Let's face it, there aren't many of these questions. But this is one. Sting has a hit song, ' Englishman in New York '. Wi...

I seem to be getting slack on keeping up with the latest memes the the cool kids are using . But I did like these two: As the man sa...

From the otherwise enjoyable Van Halen's song "Why can't this be love": "Only time can tell if we'll stand the ...

Let me a describe a situation that long characterised my music listening, and see if it applies to you. The bands I like always had one grea...

The current corner solution in my listening playlist is the song 'Gives You Hell' by the All American Rejects: It's a classic o...

You know what the worst phone call is that you can receive from your manager if you're in the music business? "We think you shoul...

The English language is extraordinarily flexible in terms of how it adapts over time. Pick up a copy of some Chaucer if you don't bel...

'Stay the Night', by James Blunt. The embarrassment belongs entirely to me of course, not Mr Blunt - he'll be laughing all the w...

In economics, a corner solution is ( roughly speaking ) the solution to an optimization problem that involves being up against a binding co...

I think I've figured out part of the secret of Robbie William's success. It's his carefully crafted persona that broadcasts &quo...

It's difficult to say anything original on the subject of love. Still, the Gorillaz have one very nice line in the song 'To Binge&#...

In general, I'm a complete sucker for suspending my disbelief during movies. I'll go along with the vast majority of absurd premises...