Alias Grace is my favourite. Nice, ambiguous character study, and she deals with the historical aspects really well.

Lordy, Sitting By The Riverside was our acid song in Uni/college … a sudden influx of memories here.

Great Bruce selections.

The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better
Hank III - Pills I Took
Moby Grape - Bitter Wind
Gillian Welch - Caleb Meyer
Dylan and The Band - This Wheel's On Fire

Stephen King claims to write 2000 words a day, 7 days a week.

@avclub-a14343d7aea171bddd5aa6b80e500fd3:disqus I wouldn't give him any leeway when it comes to this stuff. It just seems obsessive, almost - the cost of the meal probably wiped out any benefit he gained from having two books a year sell at this nowhere station.

@avclub-501c54d131c3b93043a744af0c259c58:disqus @avclub-14e4cee178d88fb9aa346dbcc11f2873:disqus That'll teach me to 'research' via my memory banks rather than getting off my arse …

Martin Amis interviewed Asimov (included in Visiting Mrs Nabokov) and has some fun with his massive output, as it were. He talks about Asimov's two-volume autobiography as more or less mentioning everything that ever happened to him, each event given equal weight. Seems like he was a compulsive writer and a stranger…

Kingsley Amis, I believe. He wrote 'Colonel Sun', I think it's called, in about 67, under the name William 'Bill' Tanner, who I think is a minor character in some of the books. It's not regarded as the highlight of his output.

The poetry is pretty close to being prose. That's no criticism, I think he's great.

I've heard that Jeffrey Archer has a certain amount of help. Imagine how shit they'd be without it.

In idle moments, I wonder what would've happened if his Bachman identity hadn't been discovered - which books he would've published under that name, I mean. Misery was all set to be RB, he's said. The Dark Half is obviously inspired by his cover being blown, but I wonder if a similar idea might not have occurred to…

Sore fuckin tooth here.

A 'to-do' will, for me, always be how Larry David regards cunnilingus.

World's Greatest Dad and Sleeping Dogs.

If Joel Edgerton had a daughter named Shannon, that would still be cool, just in a different way, that's all.

I think they brought some soul influences in towards the end. 'The Bitterest Pill' is really good, and a far cry from 'When You're Young'. I also like the nerve of their rip-off songs - especially 'Start!'

I read that he ran out of new songs for that album, hence its short running time, even for that era. 'The Eton Rifles' though … one of the first songs I noticed doing something to my guts when I heard it.

How many members does Avenged Sevenfold have?

Overall, I don't think their albums were as strong as their amazing run of singles would lead you to think, though I agree on 'All Mod Cons' and 'Sound Affects' (not too keen on 'Setting Sons' though). They certainly don't have an album of the stature of 'London Calling'. A harsh standard to set, maybe.