Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from July, 2017

Where To Start With Big Finish? - A Beginners Guide To Doctor Who

With this, I thought I'd offer some thoughts on an issue that a lot of people bring up. Where do you start with Big Finish? It's an important question, as so many people want to start a Big Finish collection, but then find that there are so many releases, and it's almost impossible to choose. So, if you're new to Big Finish, I'd recommend using this as a guide for entry points, and then going on from there to finding other releases to listen to. Technophobia - Starring David Tennant & Catherine Tate If you didn't expect this one to be on the list, then I'd ask what was wrong with you. While not being a personal fan of the David Tennant era, I can't deny that, for a lot of people, he is the most popular of all the 21st Century Doctors, and was responsible for the show being given pretty much carte-blanche by the BBC. And while Technophobia isn't what I'd call amazing, it features a clever little premise, compactly told with some strong perf

Lyric Dissection - Born This Way (Lady Gaga)

One Nerd. One Laptop. One Infinite Library of Music. One series taking the piss out of music. Why, what else would you think I'd do? It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M I knew that Middle Eastern capitals had odd names, but I've never heard of HIM before. Is it a good holiday destination?  Just put your paws up 'Cause you were born this way, baby Are you singing to dogs again? Because if you're a human with paws, I'd say that's a serious deformity. My mama told me when I was young We are all born superstars Yes, it just so happens we waste that talent by breathing. She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on In the glass of her boudoir In which she milked the cows and fed the chickens. "There's nothing wrong with loving who you are" She said, "'Cause He made you perfect, babe" Clearly this child was sculpted out of clay by some famous artist. Either that or Gaga needs to have the talk about the birds and the b