Maze April 2010 IndigoO2 Review

For the whole of my musical life, I’ve loved Frankie Beverly & Maze. To see them live over the weekend at the Indigo O2 was something special, not only for me but also for my Bro and the other members of IDMC who opened up the show for them on Saturday night. Coming hot on [...]

Eye Salvation Has Arrived?

Not too long from now, I’ll be heading off again on another wander to somewhere where I’ve never been before, and as per usual, there’s lots of preparation to do and thinking about what I want to take with me. So far (again as per usual) I’ve done nothing, but one thing that I am [...]

Scary or Safe Contact Lens Remover

Ever been lucky enough to use a contact lens remover? Reason I ask is that periodically I look at my site stats and I see that this site sometimes comes up in searches for contact lens remover or contact lense removal so I checked back and see that I have previously written on the subject [...]

Trash the site you hate

Nuke ‘em, spray graffiti all over their specially optimized home page, send a fleet of [tag]Led Zeppelins[/tag] after them, do it all from http://www.netdisaster.com/. Nice bit of fun to waste away the hours instead of doing that work that makes you want to die whilst [tag]clock watching[/tag], or if you are just plain [tag]bored[/tag]!

synergize cross-media technologies just for fun

Have you every been stumped by a phrase that you’ve read on a corporate website or heard in an advertisement for the latest and greatest 2.0 techno-widget? Try out Dack Ragus’ web bullshit generator and see if you recognize any.

Hotel World – Play review

If you think that [tag]youth theatre[/tag] is merely for parents hoping to see their offspring treading the boards, ready to pat them on the head and take them out for a celebratory meal after the performance, you may want to re-think that assumption, once you have seen the adaptation of [tag]Ali Smith[/tag]‘s [tag]Hotel World[/tag], presented [...]

Favela Rising DVD Review

Set in one of [tag]Rio De Janeiro[/tag]‘s 600 ghettos, Vigario Geral, [tag]Favela Rising[/tag] charts the story of [tag]Anderson Sa[/tag], [tag]Jose Junior[/tag] and [tag]AfroReggae[/tag] on a journey from outlaws to social revolutionaries. In their debut feature, directors Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary allow us to see inside the notorious ghettos of one of the world’s most [...]

New look for the Earth monkey site

After a few months, I have decided to change the theme of the site here at Stirlyn.co.uk. Once again I ventured to Brian Gardner’s site as I saw he’s brought out a new Vertigo Electrified theme that really REALLY caught my eye. I love Brian’s designs, their clean and precise and aesthetically pleasing, as well [...]

Last year Pete, this year Leo? How not to get hooked on Celebrity Big Brother

I was a big brother fan up until series 2 I think, then I completely lost interest but when Celebrity Big Brother aired for the first time, I was glued. Who can forget the slow collapse of Vanessa Feltz right before our eyes. It was glorious to watch the facades melt away from the normally [...]

What do you do when your Saxophonist doesn’t turn up?

Of course, what you can do, is employ the services of a member of the audience as a temporary replacement. Jazz is after all a highly improvisational form of art. That’s exactly what happened on Saturday when I visited an intimate Jazz club in Soho, Jazz After Dark, where the food was good and the [...]

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