Ignatiy Vishnevetsky is definitely MVP in this article. Very funny. Don't think I'd ever noticed the name before.

Yeah, it should have been in bold. More to the point, though, it should have been an interview where every question wasn't "And then in the movie, when this happens, what's that about?"… It's just a bad interview. Pisses me off.

Really?
Over 90% of this week's music releases are A grades?

Just wanted to say this is a really good article, Steve. Read the bitch twice…

This review…
…is empirically wrong. The movie totally tilts the Spiderman 3 axis, pretty much as far as Spiderman 3 did. It's garbage - there's so much going on it's impossible to care about a single story thread, and there is no way it wasn't re-edited by somebody whose job it is to advertise the Avengers. A mess.

Uniscuits…
…are the only scuits mentioned in the Koran, being beloved of the prophet, and are therefore the only scuits condoned by Islam. All multiscuits - bi, tri, quad, or other - are considered offensive to the memory of Mo (as I call him)…

Martin Scorcese does a neat line in book adaptations - pulpy biogs that make for good narrative source material, but haven't been written to any degree of perfection. Goodfellas (based on Wise Guy) and Raging Bull are good examples. In fact, I often think that's when he's at his best…

Hey, don't get me wrong - I'm an alcoholic (by American definitions) and I'm plenty fun. I'm just saying that Shane MacGowan goes beyond all that and is a total human fucking tragedy. He has no teeth, when he speaks he makes no sense, he falls around shouting abuse at people and he deficates himself. Enjoy your…

Wanting to hang out with a drunk Shane MacGowan officially makes you an idiot. He wanders my town vomiting incoherent abuse and stinking of his own piss. He's a genius and an absolute tragedy, he's the saddest thing on Earth…

Great interview, AVC. I love this man's work so much, and he seems like the kind of person you'd want your kids to grow up to be…

I invented
the staycation. Only my version involves a big hunk of cow…

First scene next week, Marie steals Holly a pink teddy bear (it's hypoallergenic).

@whoo42: guess what the "PA" in IPA stands for…

"All four of whom"
is obviously what I should've said… That's the last time I'll be a pompous twat - I just don't have the smarts for it.

"all four end up orbiting a roadside diner…"
All four of who? There has only been three people mentioned… Or is that the point - did all four of three people orbit something in Hemingway's "The Killers" as well, and I'm just out of the loop?

Backin that up
Yep, definitely an A - I nearly expected it to get an A+ on here, apart from one thing: could have done with a lot less exposition once it comes. No disrespect to Nimoy, but it kind of seemed like he was acting in a different movie altogether… On where people's teeth have been added in post with CGI.

The Tain
was a pretty good rock album when The Horslips recorded it in 1976… I haven't heard the Decemberists version, but I'd be interested to see how it shapes up.

Afghan Whigs' "Gentlemen". Can't beat it…

Wow - I believe I'm now suffering the aftereffects of what is known as "an orgy of information". I had no idea those podcasts were there. Shame I've only 7 eps left (and I thought I'd 9!). Thanks for the links, Parma…

Ah, it all falls into place… Cheers.