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Album Reviews Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers (2008)
Song of the Day Smog - To Be Of Use  This song brought my world to a standstill today. Everything stopped. Cars were no longer nosily driving by outside, the wind was no longer making the tree branch brush up against my window, the kids in the street were no longer laughing and playing. For a few precious moments nothing else mattered to me but this song. Right from the poignant honesty of the opening line ‘Most of my fantasies are of making someone else come’ I was hooked. It’s hard to beat the feeling of a song being heard for the first time and really hitting you hard where it counts. Like a miniature ephiphany everything suddenly made sense. I was home; I was loved. ...More?
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Featured Artist Ron Sexsmith  Ron Sexsmith is a major contemporary writer/artist who has amassed a sizable and consistently enthralling body of work since making his major label debut in 1995 with his self-titled album on Interscope, followed by such eloquent musical gems as Other Songs (1997), Blue Boy (2001), Retriever (2004) and Time Being (2006). Each has its own particular character but is connected to the rest by the overarching intelligence, impeccable taste and understated emotionality of this single-minded voice in the pop-cultural wilderness. As one new fan put it in a comment on iTunes, Sexsmith’s music “wins you over with a silk punch.” Well put. Ron Sexsmith Press Release Ron Sexsmith Reviews Ron Sexsmith Tour Dates Film Reviews Get Smart(2008) 
Comedian Victoria Wood once told an anecdote about going to see a really terrible play in which she said that amidst all the really bad acting and terrible plot there was one really good bit where it all stopped for ten minutes and she had an ice cream. Well, I don’t think I appreciated that joke to its fullest until I went to see Steve Carell’s latest offering ‘Get Smart’, and can say that the best bit in the entire movie was the part where I left the theatre for a few minutes to go to the toilet. On paper this movie should have been great. A film adaptation of the 1960’s Mel Brookes TV show about a hapless government spy which won several Emmy’s and Golden Globes, it should have been the perfect recipe for a laugh a minute movie. Steve Carell seemed the perfect person to be cast in the lead role as he’s fast becoming America’s hottest comedian on the back of recent successes such as ‘The 40 Year Old Virgin’ and the US version of comedy series The Office.
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