Is Beth Orton the new Joni Mitchell? Erm, maybe. But I don't exactly recall Ms. M flouncing around braless in a little diaphanous dress as Beth does [left] in the photoshoot accompanying this Sunday Times article (which requires [free] registration). Sales of the new album that sluggish, huh?

Adults Get Scared Too is the amusing online companion piece to the Resident Evil advertising campaign. Do not adjust your monitors.

For the sake of balance, Martin over at The Copydesk offers a more positive view of The Bourne Identity. I prefer the Tom Coates verdict though: 'empty but diverting.'

Some bleak news on the music scene - Warren (Werewolves Of London) Zevon has inoperable cancer ('it'll be a drag if I don't make it until the next James Bond movie comes out': just to compound the gallows humour the new 007 movie is of course to be called Die Another Day) while Roxette star Marie Fredrikkson has been diagnosed with a brain tumour.

Maladroit: a weblog from a Weezer fan.

I'm inordinately pleased that Dawn Of The Replicants have reformed and have a new album Touch The Propellor in stores next Monday.

David Cronenberg's Spider wins Best Canadian Film award at The Toronto Film Festival.