just watched Mississippi Masala for the first time. Denzel Washington & Sarita Choudhury putting Tony Leung & Maggie Cheung under serious threat for the title of Hottest On-Screen Couple I've Ever Seen.

slightly worried that Phil Foden's going the way of Dele Alli ya know

what a year!

SHARIF DON'T LIKE IT

Arsenal must have been watching our second halves a bit too closely cos they lost the run of themselves there

said goodbye to Nur's dear old Nani today. 89 years old, delicate and quiet on the surface, but much stronger on the inside than she was ever allowed to be. moved here from Malaysia in the 80s and managed to build a life with her husband despite not being able to speak a word of English.

not saying United didn't win tonight because of the lad with the hair but all the talk & noise round him won't be making things easier either. United can't even put a small run of games together without his hair coming up on TV, adding that little bit of pressure, drawing more attention to it.

should have been an instrumental outro to The Queen Is Dead www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Fp...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0BG... fucking brilliant this init. Scott Storch was the master of hype music once upon a time wasn't he.

i still think Arsenal will keep it together but City just being involved in games like that again after last season is amazing. they're *so* exciting, when everything's on the line and it comes down to mad marginal moments like that. lots for City to improve on but results like that will only help.

Szoboszlai becomes the first and only player in the history of football to be sent off for "denying a goal-scoring opportunity" during an incident that resulted in a goal

sounds like falling asleep while crying. so glad we have two proper versions of this now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zech...

United are going to beat West Ham, get that lad with the hair to Old Trafford so all the players can shave his head, give Carrick a massive contract, and promptly go five games without a win

me and Nur have started watching Buffy. i'm developing such a crush on Willow. bless her she's adorable.

another Wembley final. not bad at all, lads.

seeing lots of "omg S1 of the Harry Potter show is gonna be 8 hours the book hasn't got enough content for 8 hours the show isn't gonna be any good" and it's like, they're not making the show because they want it to be good

absolute meat & drink for MySpace emo nerds, this

fascinating isn't it how strong narratives are. if that exact game plays out verbatim under Amorim about three months ago it's a symbol of how disorganised United are and how they can't control games under him. but it's happened post-Amorim so it's actually a mark of "the old United" returning.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC25... new music! (featuring footage shot by my dad in about 2003, of a sheepdog at work)

FlyLo & Thundercat collabing again! that's whatcha want out of a Friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmu...

hahahahaaaaahahaha, god i hate Madrid more than any team in the world and THAT happening to them to help City, my god

i have a new song out. it's going to be on my album DREAM MACHINE AND A HAPPY END: MONUMENT TO A COMPUTER KEYBOARD. that'll be out before the summer, all being well. ❤️

Derek when it's 11.30pm and me and Nur are reading in bed upstairs: i'm a big brave boy i don't need to go upstairs yet i can stay in the living room because i'm a big brave boy Derek, the second we turn our bedside lamps off: meow wow? mum? dad? where go? 🥺*comes upstairs, hops on the bed*

it's hard to really assess the merits of a piece like this because its entire premise can be shattered into tiny bits by spending all of 10 seconds in the Harry Potter area at Universal Florida

Derek when it's 11.30pm and me and Nur are reading in bed upstairs: i'm a big brave boy i don't need to go upstairs yet i can stay in the living room because i'm a big brave boy Derek, the second we turn our bedside lamps off: meow wow? mum? dad? where go? 🥺*comes upstairs, hops on the bed*

a really difficult thing to read. i'll never be able to scrub the last 3-4 years from my memory but i don't want to just dismiss the reality of psychotic mania. hard not to be sceptical about it all. hopefully this means things can't get worse, at least. share.google/VNlfTynpOcnu...

i have a new song out. it's going to be on my album DREAM MACHINE AND A HAPPY END: MONUMENT TO A COMPUTER KEYBOARD. that'll be out before the summer, all being well. ❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC25... new music! (featuring footage shot by my dad in about 2003, of a sheepdog at work)

me and Nur are thinking of moving house in 18 months-2 years. looking around on Rightmove. when did they stop building houses that have three actual rooms downstairs. wish you could filter out houses that are £300k and have a combined "kitchen/diner". fuck them off entirely.

that leg break in 2024 really did for Bobb in the end didn't it. very tricksy and intelligent but has lost that burst of five yards that used to get him away from people. was on the brink of making it imo, just lost a year of progress at the worst time. big risk from Fulham to pay £35m for him.

loving so much that Popular is slowly but surely catching up to Hits 21's coverage of the second half of the 2000s. if you wanna hear what Hits 21 said about Jimmy B when we covered You're Beautiful, click that 👇 and skip to 33:32. open.spotify.com/episode/0ot8...

A NEW POPULAR ENTRY, of all things! A hit that gave its maker two careers - the pop one, and then a second one as a social media guy downplaying it all popular-number1s.com/2026/01/18/j...

could honestly see Arsenal winning the league with fewer points than they achieved in the 22/23 and 23/24 seasons.

just shook hands with Geordie Greep's mum

These are the same things. They are the same events. The difference is that one person pulled it off and one didn't.

just listened to this for the first time in about 10 years. first and only time i ever tried live looping, doing experimental electronic/noise stuff. it actually came out quite well. soundcloud.com/eightrubber/...

my last article for Metro (for a while anyway) is a 4/5 ⭐ review of the new Game of Thrones show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is cute and tender and breezy enough to make you forget about the streaming wars for a bit. metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/g...

my last article for Metro (for a while anyway) is a 4/5 ⭐ review of the new Game of Thrones show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is cute and tender and breezy enough to make you forget about the streaming wars for a bit. metro.co.uk/2026/01/13/g...

if i get tickets i'm gonna cry if i don't get tickets i'm gonna cry either way! birdonthewire.gigantic.com/life-without...

Bobb and Savinho watching Semenyo this week

big big win and an even bigger performance. Trafford, Khusanov, Alleyne all so so good. already in love with Semenyo.

my mum's been (rightly) complaining to me that she has barely any memories of City between 2018-2024 because we don't make season review DVDs anymore, so that's my gift to her for Christmas. gonna make season review DVDs of our Fourmidables & Treble Winners seasons basically from scratch.

christ alive

got some new specs that are making me feel a bit Jon Ronsony

re-watching Jaws. the scene with Brody and his son at the dinner table, with the little lad copying his dad's every move, is so so beautiful. Spielberg cooks so much in the small moments. what a picturemaker. 29 years old when he made it as well. can't even wrap my head around it.

this is my One Big Fear. i want a lot of people to listen to my music but not, like, too many. i have no real grasp of what ignorances, prejudices, and ~problematic~ parts of myself might be revealed by my songs. if 100 people bought my album, that'd be great. if 1,000 people bought it... nope.

yep, that's that for the "title race". not that there's ever actually really been one. City improving on last season overall but we're just not ready yet. plus the squad is in a right state. 75-79 points, have a go at the cups, see you again next year! 👋

feels absolutely horrendous to know we're less than two years away from an ITV2 documentary titled Jesy Nelson: My Babies and Me.

think we do have to go into the market for a new CB now. not sure we can sustain 4-6 weeks of Khusanov, a broken Nathan Ake, and 20 y/o from Watford - not with a game every three days. we could do worse than bringing Akanji back if we can't sign anyone permanently tbh.

started wondering after the Forest game if we were in a title race but shouldn't have been tempted away from the perspective i've had since June. the target is next season. we've got a changing squad that's building, Arsenal are years into their process and have clicked. will be 10-ish points in it.