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How much of Grime is archaic and how much is avant-garde? Do these distinctions make sense? Are they useful or should they be abandoned?

Its difficult to make a film with several main actors, say eight, without resorting to stereotype for at least half of them. What the papers refer to as ensemble playing is basically a parade of the usual bints and bounders parading their usual tics and turns, no? Agnes Jaoui's 'Look At Me'...

Plasticman on Rinse tonight said that when he was putting this tune together he was imagining a very fat man walking up a steep hill with the wind ruffling his supermarket bags full of corned beef. Flab-step?

Imagine Condy explaining this to George over Pretzels. And more seriously, why has evolutionary theory become the key to everything? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1353706,00.html

There may be difficulties about cultural studies, and some of then have been rehearsed here, and I agree that we need to take a long hard look at the theoretical situation. But at the same time one of the achievements of the past twenty years has been the opening up of postcolonial theory, and...

Chanwook Park's film slays allcomers as the movie of the year. A Shakesperean take on the Oedipal drama. I was in tears, I was ripping my clothes, I was in shock for days afterwards. Oh Dae-Sue. Oh Dae-Su! (Choi Min-Sik)

seamus heaney recently said somewhere that eminem was keeping the english language alive. don paterson has argued for the occult potency of poetry here: http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/news/poetryscene/? Is there anyone matching sonic experimetation with the kind of linguistic dexterity...

Big Slavoj weighs in: http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/print/the_liberal_waterloo/

In the shadow of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, a nondescript terrace of Victorian houses, two-up two down, each with a basement and an attic. Most are empty, their windows and doors sealed by the borough, only numbers 14 and 16 seem lived in: the doors painted the same shade of brown, the...

Has anyone else seen/heard/felt this yet? Its really rather fine, a complete antidote to the feelgood atmospherics of that last thing in the Turbine Hall. Old Skool avant-garde: annoying, abrasive and electrifying.

Shane Meadows takes the British Social Realist film, and grafts on the most basic cliches of the Horse Opera (lone avenger, idiot boy) to produce something stylistically pointless and morally incoherent. A travesty.