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You can't burn an eBook
The eBook version of my new novel, So Bad It's Good, has just been made available on Amazon/Kindle. This means that it is that much closer to being downloaded directly into your brain, making it, once...
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Start the day right with POP OFFENSIVE!
That's right, tonight sees the airing of a brand new episode of Pop Offensive on KGPC (live streaming at 7pm Pacific from kgpc969.org). But that's not the only news that's fit to print in Pop...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast #11: Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son
The latest episode of the Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast could be seen as a fairy tale of sorts, casting teen ye-ye girl France Gall as Little Red Riding Hood and walking hangover Serge Gainsbourg...
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Shoktir Lorai, aka Banglar Robocop (Bangladesh, 19??)
If you enjoyed the “Sweded” version of Robocop presented in Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind, you should get an equal kick out of Shoktir Lorai, a Bengali film that is popularly known as “Banglar...
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How to be cool
I have long said that Teleport City’s Keith Allison is one of the best film writers on the internet, and now his talent has bled onto the page with his new book Cocktails & Capers: Cult Cinema,...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast, Episode #12: Joy
In this latest episode of the Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast, I find both joy and complexity in former Judy and Mary singer Yuki's "Joy." Please check it out on Stitcher and, while you're there,...
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It's TONIGHT!
For four and a half years now, Pop Offensive has been bringing you the best in catchy, danceable and uplifting music from around the globe and across the decades. I mean, where else can you hear ABBA...
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Goodbye Pete Shelley.
The death of Pete Shelley is hitting me really hard. That's largely because the Buzzcocks were a band that I followed from a young age, my favoite punk rock band. Given that, their songs serve as a...
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Star Virgin (Japan, 1988)
I approached Star Virgin expecting lightweight Japanese erotica, but what I got was something altogether more charming. What it was instead was a frenetic procession of goofy rubber monsters, robots,...
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Attack of the Robots, aka Cartes Sur Table (France/Spain, 1966)
The Lemmy Caution movies are unique among Eurospy series by virtue of one of their entries being directed by one of the leading lights of the French New Wave—that entry being Alphaville, a deadpan...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER podcast!: "Ba da da bum"
Dara Puspita was Indonesia's first all-woman rock band, and likely one of the first all-woman rock bands in the world. As such, they faced all of the usual hurdles confronted by women working in a...
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2018: A year in the rearview
I don't know about you, but last year was pretty busy for me. In fact, 2018 was the year when I finally started asking myself whether I had maybe taken on just a few too many projects. Then I would...
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