Try finding someone who isn't fed up with politicians, bankers and the general air of malaise that permeates this rotten year of our Lord 2009. So it's time for a new sort of hero, an anti-hero. It's time for a man called Tomas. A man who comes from the ranks of abundant celebrity, a star of a popular TV show that requires him to traipse the Earth and curl out a stinking turd on some of the world's most famous venues. This is his story, and it involves murder, resurrection, bankers, love, prostitution, time travel and telekinetic aliens.

In this new novel from James Palumbo the world that currently both suffocates and liberates us is brought to vivid life in all its bloated, beguiling glory. Indignation, outrage and a general sense of maverick abandon are his weapons, so come on a journey that is, like our modern world, terrifying and bewitching in equal measure.

To illustrate this nefarious world the book inhabits are three short animations, showing us the dark heart at the centre of the corruption that this fantastical novel so despises.

The music video can either be a thing of creative brilliance or so terribly cheesy you could put it in a burger and chow down. The bad ones really can turn your stomach, making you want to gauge out your eyes with syringes covered in acid, and slice your ears off with broken CDs.

There's just no excuse for it, but these videos are different. These videos are done intentionally to parody and mock those awful, soul-destroying, life-sapping music videos that crop up and teach us all how to hate.

There's some classics here, from Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah Marshall to the brilliant Willie Beamen rap video from Any Given Sunday which relentlessly mocks all those samey, lamey, rap videos they seem to make on a production line from the same mould.