September 2009
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“Entrepreneurs are made from half-baked clay.”
– Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’
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Artisan @ The Westbury Hotel
The Westbury Hotel, Conduit Street, London, W1S 2YF
Is it crass to begin a restaurant review by talking about value for money? Because if it is, I’m about to be very crass: the three-course set menu at Artisan (at £30 a head) is to my knowledge the best value fine-dining in the capital. Maybe even the country. Because not only do diners get three delicious, and in some cases rather...
“You’re gonna run into jerk offs. But remember, it’s not the size of...”
– Justin’s dad
Revealed: Manchester United get more injury time... →
I guess because I’m a bit of a statto I enjoy it when journalists get all statto-like too. Daniel Taylor at The Guardian finds after analysing data from the last three seasons, that when United are drawing or losing, they have more time added on at Old Trafford than if they are leading.
The Cure vs The Commodores - Easy Heaven. Love it.
“Adebayor’s challenge on Van Persie looks very bad. You ask 100 people, 99...”
– Arsène Wenger
WatchThe Colouring (via Vimeo)
“And my thoughts got rude / as you talked and chewed / on the last of your pick...”
– Arctic Monkeys (Crying Lightning)
“Generally speaking, it’s best not to contemplate the full scope of the...”
– Charlie Brooker
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This weekend, I...
Went for ‘just the one’ post-work drink at Casita in Shoreditch. Four bottles of Quilmes later…
Had a pint and a burger on what felt like the last day of summer at The Brittania on Victoria Park. Good burgers and rough-cut chips.
Polished off season 2 and started on season 3 of HBO’s amazing Deadwood. Disc 2 of Season 3 failed on me (big scratch) right in the middle of...
“Change don’t come looking for friends.”
– Al Swearengen
Channel 4's extra £20m for drama to fund Shane... →
How did I miss this? Channel 4 - Big Brother + Shane Meadows = one very happy Jordan. According to shanemeadows.co.uk the series is to be called We Were Faces, and set four years after the events of This is England (my favourite film of 2007).
I’d be hugely surprised if this isn’t TV gold, given Shane’s pedigree, and if it’s got Stephen Graham and Thomas Turgoose in...
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I Want To Break Free Of This Rubbish →
“The album’s called Absolute Greatest. The press release has been filed under Absolute Bollocks.” — deconstructing a press release sent by EMI for the new Queen greatest hits album. A big heh.
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As a bemused Majikthise once said, “Now that’s what I call thinking”.
“I find you dead ’cause of him, I’ll kick your corpse in the ear for the...”
– Al Swearengen
DJ Jay-R: Sweet Sovereign (Lady Sovereign vs....
Chelsea banned by Fifa from signing players till... →
Ouch. It’s been a long time coming for a club that’s been operating disgracefully in the transfer market for about four years now. No doubt Abramovich’s money will find a way to change FIFA’s mind, but it’s nice to see a public chastisement at last.
“A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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Inglourious Basterds
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino (2009)
“You know somethin’ Uitivich, I think this just might be my masterpiece.”
And so does Aldo ‘The Apache’ close the movie that has occupied Quentin Tarantino on and off for the last decade: quite aptly, as it happens, for Basterds is undoubtedly a hugely accomplished piece of work. A wartime escapade, a revenge...