Like, so good...

Julia Davis has been upsetting people for many years now. She is a monster, an aberration - someone who shouldn't be allowed near a computer, a camera, hell, a pen even. She has masqueraded as a comedy performer since the late 1990's; working with many of the so-called comedy luminaries currently plying their nefarious trade. As if working with Chris Morris wasn't bad enough, she has recently written and, 'performed,' with Jessica Hynes, a pilot for the BBC. Lizzie and Sarah is one of the crudest 'sit-coms' ever to have been considered for commission. It is cruel, gratuitous and bears all the sadistic hallmarks typical of Davis. Twat Bubble is outraged at how outrageous this shit gutter comedy is. In election year, I, and we, urge all right thinking Cosmonauts of comedy to contact their local MP - Davis, and others of her barbaric ilk, MUST BE STOPPED...!!!

Lizzie and Sarah Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

long day's journey into...,

Twat Bubble has featured before the writer and neuroscientist, David Eagleman. In this interview with Sean O'Hagan for The Guardian, Eagleman revisits again his 'possibilian' agenda - for those of you unfamiliar with his book, 'Sum: forty tales form the afterlife,' Eagleman posits the possibility of a myriad number of post death scenarios - none of which he asserts as being more possible (or impossible) than the remainder. We look forward to his forthcoming novel - which promises to include life, the universe and maybe slightly more than everything...

Frank Huyler is an emergency physician living in New Mexico. He first came to prominence with the publication, in 2004, of 'The blood of strangers,' a wonderful collection of 28 short stories - all of them involving the day to night, life and death work of an A and E doctor. Subsequent novels have attempted to grapple with larger themes; whilst still retaining and maintaining a consistent thread of consideration and humanity - all 3 however unwaveringly focus on the singular disparities between life and death and the immediacy with which the former can so quickly, so unrelentingly, become the latter.

Keep both eyes on the sky...

With Chris Bell and Alex Chilton, Big Star produced some of the most achingly beautiful music of the 1970's - in stark contrast to the baleful excesses of the time they focused on the craft that is songwriting - and what songs they were! The first album in particular demonstrates this - the only album to feature both Chilton and Bell - effortlessly marrying lyrical introspection with all out rock and roll assault. It is, and always will be, one of the great albums. After Bell left there were some who thought that Big Star would find it difficult to continue - however, 1974's 'Radio City' comprehensively dispelled this notion - with songs such as, 'September Gurls,' and 'Back of a Car,' reinventing power-pop and reinvigorating Chilton as a songwriter. 4 years passed before Third/Sister Lovers was released - ostensibly an Alex Chilton solo album, it is, unquestionably, one of the great underappreciated, unrequited works in modern popular music.

Chilton was more than just a member of one of the defining rock bands in history. He was, since his teenage years with The Boxtops, throughout his time with Big Star, and as a solo artist and producer, that genuinely rare thing - a gifted, troubled, generous artist.

Thanks Alex.

Paul Westerberg 'Alex Chilton'

Alex Chilton 'The Letter'

Big Star 'Kangaroo'

The Cramps 'Garbage Man'