Quick, pass me the kerosene!
With Resident Evil recently reaching its 20th birthday, I thought I’d do some celebrating. Not my normal type of celebrating though because let’s be honest, thi...
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Choosing A Career For Yourself as a student
When it comes to choosing a career for yourself, the most important thing is clarity. Once your are clear about what you want to achieve, you will pave your lif...
Why do we make New Years Resolutions?
Each year, we count down the seconds until a year with a different number on the end of it unfolds for us. In principle, there is nothing different about the ne...
The Babadook: Review
Last week, in a fit of childishness I had vetoed watching a proper movie with Katy and instead forced her to watch the ridiculous Rambo III on channel 5. ‘Look’...
A Note On An Utopian Revolution
Wealth does not consist of a great many possessions but of great heart. Money and fame are nothing but the blood of wasted feasts while the pure skies are fille...
Only God Forgives: Review
Nicolas Winding Refn takes his characteristic mix of oddball psychodrama and explosive ultra violence to the sultry underside of Bangkok for this tale of reveng...
On The Psychedelic Experience
‘Alcohol just gives me a bad head..Mushrooms gave me love and understanding..Bad head? Love and understanding? Bad head? Love and understanding? It’s a hard cho...
Winter Traditions
Crisp leaves, bitter mornings, tangerine sunsets, curling up with friends and family, sparklers, bonfires, Christmas parties and holiday spirit. There is someth...
Questioning Existence
You are energy. It is energy that sustains and maintains your entire existence. Many people believe that life is given by our heart, lungs and other organs alon...
10 non-Disney Animated Films You Are About To Watch And Adore
The Secret of Kells If you have children, you may have seen this pop up as a suggestion in your Netflix queue. Do yourself a favor and click it, for you an...
What is your next route?
Is it just me who thinks life is going fast? Maybe even a little bit too fast! Don’t get me wrong, I have been going along with you on this 'growing up' jour...
The end of community spirit?
We have all probably been there. Our mothers and fathers, and most likely our grandparents and other relatives have told us about "when it was our day" and this...
Paradise Lost
At first glance, Utopia seems like typical reality TV fare: Telegenic, good looking Americans who are forced to live together and are, within a few hours, eithe...
Proof in Pardew’s Pudding?
Without a win in the premier league this season, Newcastle have only managed a fairly poor 3 draws from 5 premier league games this season. With all the negativ...
Burtonism
I understand that the great mystery of love in terms of western society is Passion! Passion! Passion! To say 'I cannot live without you!' The more one feels des...
Musical Comedy: Yay or Nay?
With the Edinburgh Fringe festival rapidly coming to an end, we have the opportunity to look back and reflect on the eclectic array of acts that it had to offer...
The (unofficial) top 10 bands in the world!
After an extensive research period I have devised a list of the world’s top bands and provided the best song by each band. In my opinion, a band is a group of m...
Little Slice of Heaven
Sat in the back corner of a small quaint café hid behind a hundred books, I scan the shelf of well thumbed and loved paperbacks, a few stand out to me and I won...
Welcome to the world of Super Smoothies!
“An apple a day, keeps the doctor away” Well that’s what I was always told as a child. If you ask me, I’m still not to keen on the ‘apparent’ delicious ta...
Budgeting is Essential
Well, now is the best time to start thinking about your student finances, according to Salford student accommodation provider Portergate. Drawing up and stic...
Mental Health and Student Life
We go through our lives so busy with work, assignments, friends, that we forget to take care of ourselves. Not just physically, but mentally as well. I learn...
What’s the best way to stay fit?
I remember watching Jessica Ennis run and jump her way to Olympic victory in 2012 and I also remember reading my twitter timeline which was just full of comment...
Top Tips for a Top Trip
I love to travel. I mean who doesn’t really! You jump on a plane and in next to no time you can feel like you are in a completely different world or even in a c...
Y Not 2014: Review
With Y Not returning bigger and better this year, it didn't disappoint the 1000's of festival goers who wanted to enjoy the only festival located in the heart o...
Misfits S5E03: Review
WARNING: Contains spoilers When it was announced the fifth season of E4’s Misfits would also be the last season, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t the only one who th...
Bloc Party- ‘Four’
Bloc Party have that unmistakable sound. Over the years they’ve been around, they’ve developed and constructed this into their own unique blend of electric guit...
Che Sudaka – Balas For Valentine (Bullet For My Valentine Tribute)
Jägermeister – What’s the story? Produced by Mast-Jägermeister SE, a family owned business founded in 1878 in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Today Jägermeister is one o...
City Guides for Students – Amsterdam
Welcome to our Student City Travel Guide for Amsterdam! This series of article pulls together information from many different sources to help you decide o...
All Filler, All Killer
In television, a filler is essentially an episode that doesn’t have much to do with the overarching story plot, tends to focus on character development without ...
How to deal with your bag being stolen while travelling..
On June 27th my bag was stolen from a Starbucks in Xian, China – which pretty much says a lot about me, and about Starbucks. I bought a Panini and an iced choco...