Fat Actress

4 September 2008

What a delightfully dour performance Kirstie Alley gave as Rebecca Howe in Cheers. Last week I picked up season six on DVD for just a few quid. The further I get through it, the more I’m reminded of how utterly brilliant her performances were. Cheers had a great ensemble cast from the beginning, though Carla [...]

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Screen sharing – a quirk or just me being dumb?

4 September 2008

I recently came across a behaviour of Leopard’s Screen Sharing feature that surprised me. Would someone with two Macs to hand please try this and let me know whether it’s just something to do with my setup. (I install a lot of shit.) On the first Mac, log in as an administrator and create a [...]

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Insatiable appetite

4 September 2008

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve felt restless when listening to music. If CDs weren’t immediately ripped and archived these days, many of my longtime favourites would be scratched to death by now, and even more recent gems such as Fleet Foxes and Liam Finn are being stretched to the limit of repeated listening. [...]

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Nintendo comes up smelling of roses… (finally)

22 August 2008

After its yawnsome E3 line-up, Nintendo has taken a huge step towards redeeming the Wii’s line-up in 2008 by stepping back in time… all the way to 1996! Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is now available for 900 Wii points on the European Virtual Console. This is the first time this SNES [...]

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Suzanne Vega to re-record back catalogue

18 August 2008

Oh my, I feel weak at the knees at the prospect of news posted in Suzanne Vega’s blog. In the entry dated 14 August, she has announced plans to re-record some of her back catalogue with just an acoustic guitar for accompaniment. This enticing collection will be released through her website as Suzanne Vega Acoustic Favorites. From [...]

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Gaming’s new frontier

16 August 2008

Right now, four words are swirling around my head. Victor Meldrew would be proud. Why? Because I never imagined for one fraction of a millisecond that that cult teen flick Pretty in Pink would become a videogame. It’s years since I last saw the film and I’d forgotten quite how funny it is. Watch the [...]

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Kylie’s X2008 tour on TV tonight

15 August 2008

4Music (taking over from The HITS) is host to the X2008 tour this evening. It’s well worth catching as it has a very different feel to the Fever and Showgirl tours. The section that begins with Sometime Samurai was my highlight, but there are spectacular video projections behind and on the stage throughout. Even the songs [...]

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Kylie’s single pulled for good reason…

12 August 2008

The video for The One has appeared online, currently on YouTube. PopJustice reckons it’s good. I certainly don’t. The new mix is bad enough. It utterly destroys the subtlety of the album version. Parlophone has gone for the clubbing market. Fair enough, since those most interested in Kylie singles will have bought the album months ago. [...]

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What is going on with the Virtual Console?

25 July 2008

The last few months have been like a game of Pong, with complaints from some Wii owners, alleged to be the nerdier end of the spectrum, over the console’s pitiful amount of internal storage. It’s an issue for anyone that buys lots of games from the Virtual Console and WiiWare download services and plays games [...]

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Suzanne Vega and iTunes Live

22 July 2008

Please excuse the terrible picture. I only took two before becoming entranced in the show and I have the world’s most inappropriately shaky hands for taking pictures in dark surroundings, helpful as that is. Tuesday’s iTunes Live event at Koko opened with a rousing performance from Seth Lakeman, starting with a hoedown that passed pure [...]

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