The Park Is Mine

I'm still mired in tax, so once again I haven't written a proper blog post. Sorry.

Instead here is the cover artwork for the VHS release of The Park Is Mine.

I couldn't find a decent image of it when I posted about the DVD release. Well now that I have, here it is.

It looks like an incredibly complicated neon light.

I like it.

He Is Not Jesus, Though He Has The Same Initials

It's tax return time and while I am up to my armpits in distraction, sadly this blog has to take a back seat once again.

As I wade through receipts, here's another performance from Pulp's 1998 Finsbury Park gig to tie you over.

Enjoy.

Teach An Old Blog New Tricks

Spurred on by Nicola Morgan's birthday blogging I visited a great many blogs yesterday and I was inspired to do some spring cleaning on here:

I've set up an RSS feed. Whatever that is.

Over on the right you should see a blogroll. That's blogroll with three l's, not what you may have originally read it as. This is a list of my current favourite blogs. A top fourteen if you will. I know, it's catchy isn't it?

I'm also using Google analytics to make sense of traffic to and from the blog, if indeed there is anybody actually reading it.

Having browsed blogs aplenty, I decided to vote for a couple of them in the 2010 bloggie awards. Why not nominate your favourite blogs?

Any and all suggestions welcome.

Vanity Hair

This is a video improvised, shot and edited entirely by Andy Cartwright. That's him with the hair.

And since I had absolutely nothing to do with the making of the video at all, I'm clinging to the fact that I compiled these for the blog as a reason to post about it.

It also means I can also say without fear of appearing immodest that I think it's very funny.

I'm Going For A Run

New Year's resolutions are for making and then breaking. So the most efficient way to come out of the other side with your head held high is to avoid making them in the first place.

I didn't make New Year's resolution this year, but I, someone who doesn't traditionally go running, am going for a run in January. This is because I am in training for the London Marathon. Yep, I'm as surprised as you are. I've agreed to run it for charity so I can't back out now.

I'll post when you can, and should, sponsor me.

So spare a thought for me as I puff and wheeze and stumble about.

Happy New Year

It's that time of year again. The beginning of it.

After the Dickens debacle of Christmas 2008, I found myself going into the next year broke. Work was thin on the ground for the first half of the year and I failed to turn 2009 into two-thousand-and-mine.

Here's to 2010.

Paper Scissors Stone

So Chain Gang has come to an end and been named Paper Scissors Stone. It is now available for you to listen to in a handy all-in-one omnibus form for the next five days on the BBC iPlayer.

The scripts and storylines for each of the thirteen episodes are online here.

The recording of Episode 13 required reactions from a crowd. Recorded at St Pancras Station, we were that crowd. I cheered and applauded with the best of them.