The "can I bring my cat to work" bit was incredible.

So here we go. I really don't like Cat's In The Cradle as a piece of music. It's not fun, it's turgid, it's preachy, it's too long. But the thing that it's preaching is very affecting, and now I am a dad it's bordering on the nightmarish.

Oh, loads of people saw X-Men: The Last Stand, it's one of the most successful in the series.

I love that it's so upbeat and is gentle self-mockery, but filled with such longing. "And still I can't help thinking when I hear… some whistle… crying"

Fingers are thoroughly crossed here. I'm a huge Merritt and Magnetic Fields fan, but the recent records (Future Bible Heroes's Partygoing, Love at the Bottom of the Sea) have been less than great. I liked Realism, but Distortion was the last really good record. Before that, none of his records (whether MF, FBH, 6ths,…

I think you should give it a try. Typically it doesn't do the Star Trek sort of thing at all, and this episode is an outlier in terms of resolution. It's very slow at times, bewilderingly rapid at others, but never sacrifices its odd atmospherics.

Cassandra's Dream is one of the few films I just had to turn off, it was so bad. Most of Woody's stuff in the last ten years I have liked to a lesser or greater degree, but that one was a red hot turd.

That is the story of the Winter Soldier though, isn't it? Cap toes the line and finds out his organisation is crooked. He doesn't need to learn that lesson twice.

I love Bombers, but Time Will Crawl is a pretty weird pick, especially when Fantastic Voyage exists. "We won't be forgotten / And we'll never say anything nice again will we?"
https://youtu.be/3tD6FayGPyw

That's an incredible record.

"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now"

Carol Brown is a phenomenal song. I'm not even sure that it's a parody (and if it is, what of? Robert Forster?) but I adore it.

Curses, you're right. CV is bottom behind 6.

RE4s fit-things-into-your-case inventory management minigame is so much fun that I can't believe every other game doesn't rip it off. That no-one AT ALL has ripped it off makes me feel like I've gone crazy.

The Wii version (also playable on a Wii U) is brilliant, and there's a new HD version coming for PS4 which may well get me to buy it for a third time…

Of the core series, I'd rate them as follows, best to worst:
4
2
1
3
5
0
6
But I still really, really enjoyed 6.

Only last week, Carol baked cookies, reflected on her role in the group and what 'mother' means in the new world, then left a cookie on a recently eaten child's grave.

Then you become The Governor, or the Terminus cannibals, or the Wolves, or Negan. The continuing survival of Rick and his group is down to their unwillingness to throw off their old morality. All our lessons about cooperation and compassion are not for nothing, even in the most awful situations.

That's not at all what happened! Carol didn't want to kill them, but *did anyway* because they didn't give her a choice. She's aware of the chipping away of her old self - the cookie baking mother - through violence, and she's not particularly happy about it. So she gave Paula a chance, which Paula would not accept.

The above, plus Dune and Twin Peaks.