I don't think I've ever felt as much irritation upon finishing a book as I did with Dreamcatcher. Just ploughing through the last 200 pages so it could be over and I'd never have to look at it again. Didn't read another Stephen King novel until The Dome.

Akira was the first anime that got broadcast in the UK, and I remember my parents let me watch it at age 9 because they figured it was just a cartoon, and there's no objectionable content in cartoons, right?

I was so gratified when Josh's response to the "is it really such a big deal?" question was "yes, absolutely. Totally."

A collaboration between Gorillaz and Dre and LCD Soundsystem could never be as good as that sounds, because nothing could be, but as one-off A list collabs go, this is pretty respectable.

I think their function as an identifying marker for total douchebags when I was in college blinded me at the time to how many songs of theirs were pretty decent.

I actually read your name as "Nice dolphin niqab", as though you were a purveyor of garments for the religiously observant dolphin.

I guess their music gets tagged with "workmanlike" more than a lot of canonised bands. I like some of their stuff.

Seriously, and Miss You as the good Blink 182 song? Rock Show or What's My Age Again, fair play, but that whiny Cure knock-off?

"Besides being a superb action movie and a clever satire of cop and
science-fiction movies, it’s also a surprisingly autobiographical
statement from Stallone about his life and career" is a pretty Bateman sentence.

Is Earthsea bad, or just disappointing for a Ghibli movie? I love the novels, and I could see enjoying the movie so long as it's not totally awful.

I dunno, I only started watching sherlock this series and I quite enjoyed the second episode. It's nonsense, but it's agreeable nonsense.

My favourite is still "when you someone eat it". I actually laughed out loud thinking about it yesterday.

Why would he care though? He spends all his time on the road playing pretty big venues, his albums still sell, why would he care? Could be avarice, or a genuine appreciation of Dharma and Greg (a man who spends a lot of time on tour must get through a lot of dvd box sets), but he must get tired of the kind of hushed…

I've always found Dylan's contrarianism sort of endearing. Like Steve said, it's not like he needs the money anymore, so he must have licensed that Starbucks compilation just to mess with his fans' ideas of authenticity.

I do sort of enjoy how Londoners feel the need to puncture any kind of pride in having massive vanity project buildings by giving them all silly names.

Regarding Foo Fighters hating what Deadmau5 represents, I remember David Grohl used to rep Prodigy, Aphex Twin and some of Trent Reznor's more ambient stuff all the time in interviews back in the day.

I saw Gervais' third stand-up dvd, and it was appalling. Unbelievable that it's the same guy.

Wow, that's quite the manifesto for whatever that is.

I'm imagining that everyone who goes there has been drawn by the weird power of Dawes: the meme. No one knows any of the songs, and just yells DAWES over and over again, until the show is eventually cancelled.

I think everyone's hated it for months now. It's bigger than us now, we can't stop it.