Catherine Deneuve….
in Umbrellas of Cherbourg is unbelievably sexy. One of the best all-time.

English Bill, yip. If John Torode or Greg Wallace spit out a dish, it's not for show and they don't pantomime it. It's usually because they've eaten some genuinely raw chicken or something.

Masterchef nonsense generator….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/l…

Greatest ever episode of the X-Files….
My mom is a huge sci-fi fan, and I remember watching the X-Files every week 'cause she'd pretty much always let us stay up to watch. Only a few of the episodes really made an impression on me, and "Clyde Buckman's Final Repose" was definitely one of them. It and Humbug were…

And why not?

Glad you're not going….
the "oh my, the Simpsons is so terrible now" route at every opportunity.

When I was about 12, a friend came back from Italy with a t-shirt for me. Grey t-shirt, REALLY bad likeness of Bart in a blue t-shirt, holding a sling shot, with "Sono el bastardo dentro" on it.

As a 23 year old Irishman…..
a year graduated from college and on the dole, living back at home, Neil Jordan can go right to fuck claiming that it's somehow better for our cultural souls to be struggling, that we were greedy bastards who brought this on ourselves.

You know what jazz album isn't considered a classic by any means, yet I always found myself listening to? Art Blakey's "Drum Suite"….love that album.

The Cure's….
Disintegration and Neil Young's Zuma probably, for me. Literally couldn't get to sleep without playing those for a while, plus they're just really great albums.

hey, did it work?

Seemed she wanted Raylan to investigate some fishy shit she suspected her husband was up to. Thus him going in and threatening her husband, saying he'd kill him if he ever fucked her over.

Still drink this sometimes….
if I can't be bothered with beer and am lacking in imagination. It's cheap ($9 or so), and yeah, loaded with caffeine. Drink a bottle, you're nice and drunk and ready for a night out. Yes, it's damn sweet, but it's hardly the most foul thing in the world.

This article has made me realise…..
that I've had this movie and Zardoz mixed up for a while…I saw this was on Xanadu, and immediately though "Sean Connery in a diaper".

You mention Terrence Malick…
when talking about The Wrens…..but no room for Tree of Life in your list!?! It sounds like it could be quite stunning….

May have been pointed out already….
But Scotch is actually "whisky", not "whiskey"……just saying!

From an interview a couple years ago….
Hansard was talking about a conversation he'd had with an Irish "rock star", and their discussion about Irish people's views of local musicians….he came out with this;

On the subject of the importance of a national captain to a country; man, you guys should have seen how much Ireland lost it's shit when Roy Keane left the team at the World Cup in 2002.