She is, she really is. I wonder if she'd be interested in a broke emotional retard from the north east of England.

For those who are interested, he appears full frontal naked in Stuart: A Life Backwards.

Is this the time and place to register that I'm also slightly sad about James Herbert? Sad for my teenage self, you understand, not now.

This amuses me in a 'greater than the sum of its parts' fashion.

Part your belief curtains.

Strummer sent Johnny Cash 'The Road To Rock n' Roll', hoping he would record it for an American album, but Cash didn't click with it, apparently. That must've been pretty heartbreaking for Joe, and the version of Redemption Song doesn't quite make up for it.

Did The National play there too?

Has it been mentioned much that Bono and Robin Williams look alike? I'm not trying to be groundbreaking, it's just something I've always thought but never heard mentioned anywhere.

Isiah Whitlock Jr, who played Clay Davis, is also in 'Goodfellas'. During the helicopter/paranoia sequence, when Henry picks up his brother from the hospital, he's the doctor who tells Henry he looks terrible. Maybe this is generally known and commented on, and is unimportant anyway, but I just noticed it the other…

Shakespeare supposedly coined this word in Macbeth. So, well done me.

'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' being the best example I can come up with in 5 seconds of thinking.

How I wish Tom Waits would write one more tear-lashed, dog whining drinking song.

The best song was either 'Adam Raised A Cain' or 'The Promised Land'. 'Adam' is not a huge favourite, but this version of it drove me back in my seat - I've never heard an acoustic guitar sound so forceful. 
And in the last verse of 'The Promised Land', he stood away from the microphone (it was only a 2000 seat venue,…

On the solo acoustic Tom Joad tour, Newcastle, England, 1996 - 'Bobby Jean'. It was an austere tour, and I don't think anyone expected anything from the big splashy hit album, despite most of its songs being applicable. When he finished the song, there was a mix of hysteria and stunned disbelief that anything could be…

Family fortunes taking a downturn during childhood seems to be a useful thing for a burgeoning writer, though - it happened to Shakespeare, Dickens, Joyce and Arthur Miller, at least, whatever else they might've had in common. Maybe there's something about seeing life slipping out of parental control that makes for an…

I Travel also kicks, er, arse.

Blur. But overall, Super Furry Animals crush the skulls of both bands.

And it would win.

My first Leonard (Killshot, in September) was my favourite, but I wonder if any of the ones I've read since (LaBrava, Out Of Sight, Road Dogs) would've been my favourite if I'd read them first. I'm not saying diminishing returns or anything, but when they're all quite similar in style, plot and quality …

Seconded. I had a 'bath getting cold' moment reading that.