Much like Tetris or Grand Theft Auto, if you get deep enough into a 24 DVD marathon, your brain starts to interpret the whole world around you in the language of the show. You're sitting on the tube, you check your watch: beep, boop, beep 8:51:34 8:51:35 8:51:36 Your world folds into a box and compresses into a corner of the screen. Your empty desk, awaiting you at work, pops in below. Your ...

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The ludicrously lovely Rockit has assigned herself a rather cool little project for her blog, she's IMterviewing various other bloggers and posting the transcripts for your elucidation, the first of which is up now and is with, well, certainly one of my favourite people, me! I am eagerly awaiting her bound-to-be-upcoming IMterview with The Sev. ...

You've got good taste in music. Your iPod is looking very respectable. You've whittled away the bad tracks, and come up with a playlist that comprehensively covers all your complex and diverse musical tastes. Whenever you want to hear your favourite song, whatever your mood, you can jump straight to it. You've done well. But sometimes you get the feeling that you're missing something. That you've ...

My brother has a Yuletide tradition of playing It's a Wonderful Life over and over throughout the Christmas season, so I went to never having seen it before to being quite the expert on the whole thing. If you haven't seen it (and really, you should), it's the ultimate American Christmas movie. It's a kind-of retelling of the ultimate British Christmas story A Christmas Carol, in that they both pl ...

Check this story out- it's about 'Asbo TV'- residents of shoreditch may soon have the ability to 'tune in' to the local CCTV cameras to scope them out and report any crime-making they see. ?The CCTV element is part curiosity, like a 21st-century version of Big Brother? said Atul Hatwell, of the Shoreditch Digital Bridge project. Uhm, you said it, pal. Orwellian or Channel Fourlian? The creepy th ...

Well the gig was ah, a lot of fun, certainly an enormous turnout, the venue had two floors and they both seemed to be packed to the walls (admittedly each floor was about ten square feet but still, it looked impressive). Thanks to all the loverly people who turned up- I hope you experienced even a fraction of the entertainment levels that I did. ...

Happy New Year, team. This is the flyer for a gig on Saturday, featuring Grok, the band that I am in. You should ah, come! Cause we're really good. I mean, I think we are. No-one's actually ever heard us play before, so I may be totally fooling myself. Do come along. UPDATE: 8 music from the Depressing Crew 8.30 Mathew Sawyer 9.15 GROK 10 James III and the Courtesan 10.45 Bib 11.30 Zerox Te ...