[interview] An interview with John Diamond [Text-Only] in the Observer. Diamond’s columns can be found at The Times Website. [Originally, I’d decided not to link to the John Diamond interview but it stuck in my mind for a couple of days, a friend mentioned it to me and I suddenly realised that columnists in newspapers and webloggers probably have a lot in common…]

[books] More profiles of Martin Amis: [BBC] The Martin Amis Experience [Sunday Times] Middle age is drawing the poison from his pen.

[comics] Warren Ellis talks about David Icke. [Icke’s Web Site] “There is an essential piece of this obviously quite decent man’s brain that is missing; the Quality Control function that allows most of us to cross the street when badly deluded people walk towards us waving a matchbox shouting “Do you want to see my bomb?””

[two random stories] BBC News reports that Malcolm McDowell mellows out and infertile woman gets pregnant after taking viagra.

[books] Final extract from Amis Autobiography — When darkness met light

[books] Extracts from Martin Amis’s new autobiography Experience: “I’ve been name dropping, in a way, ever since I first said: ‘Dad'” and “Mum, do you think I’m her father? – Definitely”

[weblogs] Interview with Jorn Barger – Portrait Of The Blogger As A Young Man . “I try to make it my ethic that whenever I see something that I enjoy, I don’t filter. You know, if it’s some silly thing about a TV commercial, I won’t say, well, that’s too frivolous.”

[books] booksUnlimited interviews Martin Amis. [Text Only]

[tv] Ali G to star in Madonna video reports BBC News.

[film] filmUnlimited interviews Harry Enfield about Kevin & Perry Go Large.

[south park] nme interviews South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

[mayor for london] newsUnlimited reports on: The collected controversies of Ken Livingstone According to reports Ken’s lead had dropped by 12 points.

[the horror! the horror!] newsUnlimited interviews Jimmy Saville. [Text Only]

[uk] newsunlimited has an interesting profile of Charlie Kray [Text Only] who died recently. Here’s the Guardian’s Obit [Text Only].

[tech] Julie Burchill comes out of the closet as a technophobe [Text Only].

[internet] newsUnlimited meets the man who sued the world [Text Only]. Very interesting profile of Laurence Godfrey — he sued Demon a UK ISP after it failed to removed some nasty comments about him posted on soc.culture.thai Usenet newsgroup [BBC News Story] .

[movies] Interview in the Guardian with Oliver Stone.“There’s a few things I’ve been. Hedonist. Moralist. Conspiracist. Misogynist – which I hate because, God, I love women.” Here’s a list of Mr Stone’s Films. Great stuff — my personal favourite is JFK, by the way. However, I don’t believe in any of the conspiracy theories! Okay?

Interesting article about Ali G. Apparently he’s the face of Channel 4?

[Movies] I enjoyed A Clockwork Orange but was amazed by the entrance, I said, the entrance of Weatherfields favorite butcher Fred Elliot halfway through the film!

“How Madonna became one of us” [NewsUnlimited]

[Mayor for London] NewsUnlimited reports that Chris Evans is giving £100,000 to Ken’s campaign.

[my-head-hurts] Interview in The Observer with David Irving. It’s too early in the morning to be reading the views of people like this.

[my-head-hurts] God help us… todays big news is that David Beckham has had a haircut.

[Mayor for London] 101 Things you never knew about Ken. [via The View From Here]

[lists] The Death List — Top 28 Celebrity Deaths and Suicides! [via clip2.com] My Dead Pool? The Queen Mum and Barbara Cartland…

The Guardian shines a spotlight on Alastair Campbell — Tony Blair’s press secretary. He does not seem to know very much about the Human Genome Project. I am not impressed.

Books Unlimited lists Mohamed al Fayed’s favourite books. Here’s a link to the BBC News profile of al Fayed from late last year.

[movies] Interview with Jeffery Wigand. This is the man who blew the whistle on Big Tobbacco and who’s story recently formed the inspiration for Michael Mann’s film The Insider.

The Sunday Times has a profile of Ian Brady. Why bother?

“Whatever happened to Quentin Tarantino?” Is Tarantino the bizzaro Y2K Howard Hughes?

Fantastic interview with Richard Ashcroft of The Verve in News Unlimited.

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