http://www.le-flaneur.com the lowe point Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new Supergrass album is a joy from start to finish and all the more enjoyable for being so unexpected. It's chock full of hooks and glorious middle-eights. To my mind their are maybe ten potential singles on this record. I thought that they'd turned away from ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/03/17/supergrass-reborn/ John Gray has entered what is fast becoming 'the big debate of our post 9 11 age'. Most people have read something from the swathe of anti-religion literature and are genuinely thinking and talking about the issues; the comments of prominent religious figures are heavily scrutinised by the ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/03/15/john-gray-weighs-in/ Just got a calling card through the front door. We get these sort of things quite a lot. I'm going to start a collection.  It reads: Sheikh Malick: International Clairvoyant Spiritual Leader. The 11th generation of the family member of the African medium order. Initiated healer of well known ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/02/28/sheikh-malick-international-clairvoyant/ When I first saw this piece my immediate thought was that it was a spoof. Something about the 'living at the top of a hill in North London' didn't quite ring true. Then, like many others I thought it must be viral marketing for tv show 'skins'. ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/02/16/the-max-gogarty-story/ I can understand that you did, you probably aren’t as flawlessly tasteful as me, but I really can’t believe that I fell for it too. I resisted the Block Party hype and laughed at Arcade Fire’s stadium prog. But CSS? Not only did I tolerate them, I actually ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/02/12/why-did-we-all-like-css/ You may have noticed a new page has appeared in the top right corner called 'the list'. This is a new mammoth project we've undertaken to objectively and qualitatively place absolutely everything in the world in relation to everything else in an infinite borometer of goodness. You may ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/02/11/the-list/ I have a mental list of ‘Things That I Find Sinister’ – basically something fairly un-taxing to keep my brain entertained whilst my face is doing something else at work. Frighteningly, two out of the top five cropped up together in a newspaper article yesterday. They are, in chronological ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2008/01/17/mac-sinister/ A new study claims that, contrary to what many had assumed, the process of evolution in human beings is actually speeding up. Ever since first understanding natural selection I'd always believed that technology and culture would have slowed the process down because they some how accomplished things more ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2007/12/27/are-we-still-evolving/ Last night Le Flâneur had a traumatic experience. We had been given some free tickets for a 'classical music extravaganza' at the Albert Hall. Like total fools, we thought this would merely mean three or four performances of classical favourites, popular and crowd-pleasing no doubt, but a good opportunity see ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2007/11/25/classical-atrocity-prelude-to-a-lynching/ If you think you like wine watch this brilliant video blog. It's hosted by the hugely charismatic Gary Vaynerchuk. Vaynerchuk runs a wine store with his father in New Jersey called Wine library and clearly the man knows what he's talking about. ... http://www.le-flaneur.com/2007/11/22/winelibrary-tv/