I like 'Animals', enjoy about four songs off 'The Wall', but really, really love 'The Final Cut'.

This is good to hear. Though a bit, er, 'complicated' in terms of his personal life, Matthew Newton is a very good director. His 2008 film 'Three Blind Mice' is an underrated delight—an antipodean take on 'The Last Detail' that's well-acted and packed with fine-grained detail.

I think Stéphane Lafleur is one of the most interesting new(-ish) filmmakers around—someone with a real voice and a singular sensibility. And Villeneuve is a case-study in how to patiently, assiduously build a career.

Well, he's one of the worst actors around right now, so maybe he just naturally finds his level.

Me too, mate.

I'm waiting for Playdead to port Inside to Mac—and I'm not a gamer at all. It just looks too gorgeous not to play.

They're the Bruce Springsteen experience America needs right now—one with no black member. And a keytar.

I would add 'On Tour With Zygos', which I sometimes think is my favorite song of theirs. (Well, that or '4 Real'.)

It's Wu, motherfucker.
Wu gok, motherfucker.

Before you slammed your own head repeatedly in a door?

He's ageing well, at least.

I'm sure he thinks Jews are fine, provided they're working for him

Just one of the greatest and most perfect things ever created.

I met Mr Liman once, at a party in Toronto. These statements seem entirely congruent with that experience.

I find Doug Benson not only consistently, stupefyingly unfunny (maybe because I've never smoked weed), but genuinely creepy. It's that narrow-eyed, unfocused stoner gaze; it makes me think he could be found, one day, to have done some dark, dark stuff, and I'd just think, yep, that makes total sense.

'Kanal' is not only brilliant, but possibly the most depressing movie I've ever watched. (And that's saying something.) What's the opening line again? 'Here are our tragic heroes. Watch them, in the last few hours of their lives.' Yeesh.

Lawrence, to his credit, was never as creepily obsessed with teenage girls as Stuart Murdoch. It's an okay stance when you're in your twenties—rather less so, in your late forties.

Lovely, intelligent piece on a great band. And I agree, re 'Strange Idol's Pattern', though I'd put Game Theory's 'Big Shot Chronicles' up—down?—with that in the 'why do people not see that this is a masterpiece?' stakes.

I saw a band called Field Mouse support Cymbals Eat Guitars at The Echo in Los Angeles last week. Apart from being fucking dreadful, they made the Field Mice sound like Megadeth.

"The . . . typical . . . tropes. For me it's . . . long."