He would! For a few years there he pretty much made a science of being bitchy about the band in interviews without really saying anything tangible, but I think he's mellowed out by now.
I actually like Delta Machine quite a bit, so Spirit will probably end up below it in the all-time ranking. It's better than Sounds of…

They sure did. Shannon is way too good for this.

I'm slowly getting into and forming an opinion on Depeche Mode's new album Spirit. So far it's not as strong as I had hoped, although it does have a nice, cohesive flow throughout and takes on themes like devolution and determinism in the age of reactionary (and worse) forces celebrating triumph after triumph. It's…

I make mine with leek, garlic, cream, parmigiano and parsley, along with egg yolks, pasta, black pepper and bacon of course.

Me to! It kind of works in the CW stuff where everyone and the worlds they inhabit are built around those blandly handsome people in thin, over-designed leather jackets, but the world of Snatch is almost ridiculously gritty. It's a world that calls for scruffy lowlifes, wheeler and dealer-types, yet I don't for one…

Isn't Grainne Godfree one of the New Gods?

More of a lukewarm one, I'd say. The general consensus seems to be that everything after the second one is varying degrees of great, which I don't agree with.

…and an episode of MacGyver where he time travels to medieval Europe?

Hot take: MI 1 is the best Mission Impossible-movie by a wide margin.

"…FOLSH!" Andy Serkis is so damn good in those films. Will the LOTR-movies be eligible for this list, or do they skew too much towards adventure?

I saw Silence, which I'm going to have a hard time properly commenting on. It's a slow motherfucker of a movie (about 10 people walked out from my showing, presumably out of boredom and surprise of lack of Apocalypto-style jungle action), but it's also a strong religious drama that effortlessly doubles as a harrowing…

I think Glomgold lived in South Africa and just came over to Duckburg now and then to start shit with Scrooge.

Algiers - Remains
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Skepta feat. Jme - That's Not Me
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Bo Diddley is Jesus
Jens Lekman - Friday Night at the Drive-in Bingo
Morrissey - The Lazy Sunbathers
Röyksopp - The Fear
Iggy Pop - Tiny Girls
Pet Shop Boys…

It is of course also worth mentioning that Why Him? features a scene wherein a man gets hit by a tidal wave of piss.

I don't hate Braveheart, but it has a real nasty streak that's not weighed up by either grounded drama or good simple fun. It's unpleasantly brutal in a bad way, if that makes any sense.

I remember Red Rock West as a solid movie as well, but I haven't seen it in years.

Didn't Johnny Marr "forbid" David Cameron from liking The Smiths a few years back as well? While I would have been even happier if DM had literally told him to "fuck off" (Martin Gore wished someone would shoot Simon Cowell a few years back, so it's not like they're afraid to rock the boat) I'm happy that my favorite…

Put Songs of Faith and Devotion second and we're good.

You don't want any part of this shit!

How are you level 23 and "only" at the Cleric Beast? Isn't that the first boss in the game?