For that reason, I wanted to keep the layout very simple, almost stark, so there would be no atmosphere created or implied, mererly words on a page. The intention was to fill my self-named site with reviews of whatever had been important to me through my life, predominantly:

pop music, essentially covering the years 1966-1980
• books, the few that took my fancy, though I've read many more, plus my own, The View From Bondi (see graphic to the left) &
• movies, mostly covering the years 1980-2007 with many sometimes obscure quality flicks  

...but the project has somehow grown considerably bigger than what I'd originally intended. In writing all those reviews, the site became, in effect, a weird online autobiography with little bits and pieces of my life interwoven through the several hundred reviews & then expanded through numerous blog posts and even a diversion into Philosophy.  I can hear you asking...and I've certainly asked myself:

"...Why go to all this trouble of reviewing pieces of work that are 20-30-40 years old? Who cares about all that oldie stuff?"

"...Who wants to know anything about Andrew Goulding's rants, raves and philosophical ponderings?"

"...Who wants to know what I think is funny? Really, who gives a damn?"

And the bottom line is, will my customers like it?

Well, I hope so. However, as the site grew, I realised that all sorts of pop music and movie fans might also find it via search engines...and andrewgoulding.com has become just as much for them, a gift from a fan to other fans. So, if you're interested one man's reaction to a lifetime's worth of observing mass media, the menu's on your left. Welcome to my world...

Andrew Goulding

By the way:

• you'll notice around the site that there's an ad for a product called Xango. Do check it out, I sincerely believe it could change your life
• you may eventually discover that some reviews are missing. A few months ago, I had a disaster with a faulty hard drive and I lost 20 of my first and favorite reviews (Damnations!). That's now been whittled down to 10 and I shall endeavor to rewrite the others during the second half of 2008
• for more info about why this site was created, see the About Us page