Two in one here, just about. On a trip to New York (from England) in '99, I wanted to cross over to New Jersey, being a huge Springsteen fan. We went to Hoboken and had a drink in the bar where they shot the video for Glory Days, and we also found a bar that was supposedly used in On The Waterfront (huge Brando fan as…

If the choice is between the White Album and a depressed Lennon producing nothing at all, I'll take the White Album.

I always thought that, in some ways, meeting her got Lennon out of his 'Fat Elvis' period, reinvigorated him a little artistically.

I've asked this more than once, to little or no response, but does anyone else like Megan Mullaly's version of Ruby's Arms by Tom Waits? I thought it was great, to my surprise.

I was inspired to have business hair at the front, party hair at the back.

All true, but it's to their credit that they accepted it and shifted themselves into their 1997 incarnation. One of the better reinventions of the era (one of the only, come to think of it), and far beyond what Oasis would've been capable of.

Quasi-autonomous non-govermental organisation. Happy to help.

Glad someone brought this up - in my top 5 Stills songs.

Just pretend you've read something, that's what we're all doing.

Yeah, Horns sounds like a really good idea for a book. I was wondering if he could pull off the long haul, but I'll take your word for it and give it a go. Though, it'll also have to be a library book. I only buy no-risk things.

I mention Leonard on the previous page - currently reading 52 Pick Up, which is okay. Killshot would be my recommendation, but I have a feeling that it's diminishing returns after your first one. That might just be me, though, and they're still good, easy reads.

I think that, as well as the effects of worldwide fame on a probably shy 20 year old, the whole Anita-Brian thing a few years later really did some damage to Keith. Even though Brian was a terrible human, I think there's a lot of guilt there for him. It was around that time that he allowed heroin to hollow him out…

In The Rundown is the one I'm reading next … this is freaking me out …
Agree on the occasionally basic prose, but this has been good enough for me to give the more recent novels a chance.

I would risk it - it's a fantastic book, easily Harris' best, and as good a crime novel as has been written (though I'm not a crime fan). It details the capture of Lecter, without spending a huge amount of time on it, but do you think the series will stay faithful to that anyway?

I think he's mimicking DFW's style - the 'and but so' bit is the giveway. He needs to keep that sentence going a whole page before he's up there with the master, though.

I love Keith Richards, and devoured that book twice in a year, but some of the macho tone started to pall on me a little. When he talks about shooting the lights out during drug deals going bad, I rolled my eyes. 
However, I do see that this is just a carapace for a pretty vulnerable person underneath it all. Maybe…

3/4 of the way through A.M. Homes' May We Be Forgiven, which is shaping up to be one of the more enjoyable books I've read this year. Great prose style/narrative voice - very funny, but also somehow capturing a lot of the texture of life at the minute, if that's not a pompous thing to say. Punchy and frenetic.

I'm halfway through Twentieth Century Ghosts, and I'm really enjoying it. I didn't much like Heart-Shaped Box, but there's some pretty decent stuff in here - Pop Art especially.

Yeah, a few months ago. Part of my teenage years gone …

James Herbert and Tom Sharpe, too, if you're British.