Articles by Rob Buckley
Coldplay ripping (off) Kraftwerk?
What do you think? Does Coldplay’s latest rip off/sample/homage Kraftwerk? Decide for yourself with a rather good mix someone’s done of Coldplay and Kraftwerk. Head over to www.m-1.us, then search the page for “Kraftwerk” to find the MP3 in question.
Space Cadets: they all deserve to lose
Anybody been watching Space Cadets? Not many of you, judging by the ratings. If you haven’t, don’t. It’s another show from C4 designed purely to allow people to have a laugh at “dim-witted proles” (to borrow a Charlie Brooker phrase) – as you may have guessed from the show’s title. Can’t they come up with anything interesting or edifying? Of course not. They still employ Jimmy Carr.
Personally, I think they all should lose if they don’t know enough basic physics to understand weightlessness. “We’re not going to be in orbit high enough to escape the Earth’s gravitational field so you won’t be weightless.”. And they bought it! Retards.
Me? I’m only watching it since a friend of my sister is one of the undercover actors. They write a blog about cats. Now that’s edifying.
Bad sex in fiction
The Guardian has its usual prize for bad sex in fiction up for grabs. Notable presence: that Giles Coren off The F-Word. Oh dear. That’s some mighty bad writing, Giles.
A critique of the Washington mall
Slate’s How Good Is the Washington Monument? is an interesting but brief look at the monuments of the Washington Mall. It’s jam-packed with facts and veers occasionally into Pseuds’ corner, but is an interesting re-evaluation of works that most people take for granted now.