Totoro!

You see, now everyone's just filled with unholy dread.

I just needed to tell someone, dammit *runs away sobbing*

[edit BdubU was paying closer attention than me, clearly]
Donna Summer RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/e…
(thought this article might be the best audience for the news)

[removed]: replying to two different comments simultaneously; never a good plan

It's not often that you see something which is a total artistic success; the people who made this film had large and strange ambition, and used exactly the right materials to just nail it down.

Ask Tim Burton.

…ed. Interested.

Yup, he was good in The Gift and other things. And Dracula was a Roger Corman tribute, so the stilted acting (his & others) just went along with the indoor 'exteriors' and the strange lighting.

Yup, Bedazzled. In which Hurley was cast… in the Peter Cook role, naturally. Yes.

Mr Heller's right; CM seems to have decided to enjoy stuffing as much into the book as he can think of. And no, no-one's going to forget Goss & Subby any time soon.

Exactly. There are kids' books which are good books, but there are also kids' books which are (excusably) childish but which also have things in them which adults might enjoy for various reasons. I'd say that Un Lun Dun is one of the latter, but that's not a criticism.

hey… it turns out I succeeded in putting that film completely out of my mind. Ha!

Let's put it this way: it is clearly aimed at kids, and quite right too, but it contains loads of hilarious shit that you'll be glad you read.

Funny you should say that, because one of the things I really liked about The City & The City was the lack of his usual mangled, thesauraus-swallowing language.

I like your Quantum Bond model, and declare it true.

just looked up this book because of your comment, and will look out for it. I've always had a thing about the song Big Rock Candy Mountain, and the sort of sadness that comes from the tinyness of the singer's dreams

Got Bring Up The Bodies, and am loving it so far. For people like who enjoyed the style of Wolf Hall, I'm happy announce that it begins: "His children are falling from the sky. He watches from horseback, acres of England stretching behind him; they drop, gilt-winged, each with a blood-filled gaze".

Critic Mark Kermode always used to say that the "violence, chaos and death" bit should be put on the end of "Eat Pray Love". Grizzly Man is amazing, and yes it does seem pretty fair.

Fun fact: Lalla Ward met her future husband Richard Dawkins at Douglas Adams' birthday party.