Here are some of my favourite professional wrestling matches, I will update it over time as I watch them. Samoa Joe vs. Kenta Kobashi | Joe vs. Kobashi ROH 2005 Kenta Kobashi vs Kensuke Sasaki Noah…

The Year of the Sex Olympics is a 1968 television play made by the BBC as part of the Theatre 625 anthology series. It was written by Nigel Kneale, best remembered as the creator of the Quatermass…

Books Probably an odd choice of reading given, hands gesticulating, everything. But between catching up with the Eighth Doctor audios, spending a hundred odd hours playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor,…

Modern society depends on indices that transform thousands of individual opinions into trusted measures for making everyday decisions. The release of Supergirl has prompted a familiar summer ritual.…

Rapunzel was reviewed at the Half Moon Theatre, London. The tour continues until 30 August 2026. Star rating: 3.5 stars This feisty, feminist show for young children from Wrongsemble, written and…

16 new reads to close out the month with

I had the privilege to attend the Metallica 2-day concert in Budapest at the Puskás Arena. The concert had Gojira, Pantera, Knocked Loose and Avatar (Swedish) as supporting bands. Experiencing this…

As I look over my list of the best of the year so far, I need to admit that these are not necessarily the best albums of 2026, but the ones I liked enough to buy a physical copy (vinyl is my…

I told him to leave. He told me I was his…. The Intern Jaxson Bell has one goal: advancing his career by any means possible. Sleeping with men to further his aspirations isn’t uncommon for Jaxson,…

Notable albums released each month this year.

Driving from NC to IN today. Listened to “On Tyranny” and now in chapter 3 of “Black AF History” by Michael Harriot. Would recommend both!

Billy Idol Rebel Yell (1999 Expanded Edition) Get It At Discogs Rebel Yell is Billy Idol's high-water mark, the place where he spun his breakthrough hit "White Wedding" into a full-blown rock & roll…

All of the books I've read in the first half of 2026, and incidentally the very few TV shows I've seen.

I loved the era of Teen Romance movies that loosely based on Shakespeare plays. 10 Things I hate About You being the absolute pinnacle of this sub-genre for me. Twelfth Knight fits in really well…

The Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – sorry, I mean the First Wilderness Years of Doctor Who – were a game of two halves, with the TV movie marking half time. In the first half, the…

The official trailer for ‘Revolution’ (1968) by Jack O’Connell, slightly edited for hippie nudity. It’s pretty much the best film document of Haight-Ashbury at its peak.…

Emily St. John Mandel’s “Sea of Tranquility“ is difficult to review because the less you know about it going in, the more impactful it will be when you read it. Like “This is How You Lose the Time…

I used to read Blue Period back when a friend of mine bought it, but then she moved away and I stopped despite really liking it. A few days ago, I started from the beginning and started saving some…

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Lately, I’ve been binging the back catalog of videos from my internet friend Willow on their YouTube channel: Questing Refuge. Willow is an autistic transgender parent who explores being…

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I devoured this book. Told from the perspective of a defense attorney, it explores sexual offenses, critiques the legal system, and exposes the immense obstacles victims face in seeking justice, as…

I sent the photo above to my friend who recommended me this book with the message "This book is so poorly written that it made my vase sad and my flowers die" which pretty much sums up my review.

❤ Beginning in Anderson, Indiana, Wanda started singing on radio station WHBU when she was ten. Her stage career began at fourteen in Anderson with her uncle who Wanda describes as "sta

In the summer of ’76, Dogwood, Georgia, had a beauty queen named Mary Pickford, a man named Joe she couldn’t stop fighting, and a road sign that said ‘SLOW MONKEYS.’ What follows is the true (ahem)…

Backrooms 2026, Kane Parsons My rating: Didn't like it There is no way a movie with this concept would be good, but I gotta praise that this movie isn’t afraid of being weird , and went in a totally…

T he big event this week is the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, broadcast live and in color via satellite from Caernarvon Castle in Wales on July 1, 1969. I wonder, even gi

Words by Jamie Downsworth, artwork by Jorclank Over the course of May and into June, we’ve added a whopping 14 shows to Gizz Tapes; these are a mix of previously completely uncirculated recordings,…

These photos were taken 27 years ago today - on June 17, 1999.

I am listening to the playlist of hopecore. Music from the 2010s. They all sound kinda hopeful, hence the name. 2010s were a good time. Things were going upwards instead of wars and all that trash.…

Nick Cave on the worst thing about becoming a really old rockstar. Which, it turns out, is just one variation on the worst thing about anything that goes on a while. Nicely written though.

Behind the Instagram flex: A deep dive into the aviation data and logistics behind Yungblud’s custom-branded Boeing 737.

i forgot how funny this film is. it really illustrates that there's something awesome in being a repellent sadsack. Twombly: Play a melancholy song. Phone [Playing song]: When you know you're gonna…

Man, five of them, huh. Pixar’s initial offering and the first-ever CG feature is far meaner than I remembered as a kid, my own child was put off by its snarling jealous energy for most of the…

Review of The Folded Sky by Elizabeth Bear.

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(What if the life we lived is the one we needed?) I watched Eternity on a business flight home from IAD last week. Somewhere between takeoff and landing, it stirred questions about love, loss, and…

Melvin Hoover (Donald O'Connor), a photographer's apprentice for Look magazine, wants to impress Judy (Debbie Reynolds), a budding stage actress, and so he claims he is a photographer doing a spread…

My Instagram Reels algorithm served me up a couple of Nashville singer-songwriters on what I assume is the come up. Who knows in the current music landscape? Both have two very DIY looking videos…

Needing laughs big time today, along with guffaws, chortles, chuckles, giggles and howls, so slapstick scenarios involving funny fat guys falling down sound FANTASTIC! Thankfully, film historians,…

Once again, coming to you from the "I had no idea how complicated this would be when I started" department, we have Dinty Moore, the well known brand…

★★★★: Another excellent fantasy mystery full of political intrigue and layers of deception. Had me guessing at every step. There's a lot to keep track of, but it builds its case well. The…

After visiting Marilyn Monroe , I noticed the glorious, generous and really cool Cinémathèque française allowed Parisians to access its permanent collection for free during these heatwave days.…

An ode to a Minnesota Folk Hero

For much of my adult life I have been a fan of the Criterion Collection . About fifteen years ago I did subscribe to the Criterion Channel in order to stream their movie collection on demand, but I…

This was going to be an updated/added footnote or postscript to the last post , but now it’s its own post. It’s basically just a full transcript of a conversation. (I got explicit permission to call…

What tarts! Gene Loves Jezebel must have seen Love and Rockets enjoying Stateside sucksess with the T. Rexy "So Alive" and they thought " we'll ave summathat, eh boyo? " That said, I do really enjoy…

I remember abuot twenty years ago realising that I didn't want to attempt to collect Bad Brains records. Someone on HYE had a huge long list of Bad Brains records, which made me appreciate how many…

The screenings are part of GKids’ efforts to celebrate the iconic anime series’ 30th anniversary.