Yeah, more or less - it was pretty entertaining, if you didn't stop and think too hard about the plot…

I see. Well, I can't say I agree with that at all (and it throws up other questions, like: were Beatles songs "sonic marshmallows" as compared to other pop & rock songs in the charts at the time, or would you regard all popular music of the 1960s as being sub-par in an artistic sense?), but I take the point you're…

You see, this is what happens when you farm out the job to writers who aren't Will Harris. If he's not doing the next one, then I'm afraid I'll just have to cancel my subscription to this publication.

I expect you're just trolling, but I'll humour you: what does "technicians" mean to you, when you use it like that? My gut feeling is that this doesn't really make much sense (i.e. given that the Beatles were a band who had to slog it out the hard way in strip clubs, learning how to quickly win over indifferent, even…

Those necklines are all the rage here in Australia right now - it's a covert political statement.

Well, I won't pretend you don't have a point. Still, all I can say is that every time I've seen these trailers, all I've thought is, "I have zero interest in seeing this movie" (which is a first for me when it comes to a new Star Trek thing). It looks like it's going to be a big, dumb, generic action movie that just…

Well, I'm not quite that hardcore - I watched everything (and liked most of it, with the exception of Enterprise and Nemesis) up to and including the last movie, which was kind of fun as space action movies go; but it just wasn't Star Trek. And this movie looks like more of the same, which I don't really need.

I like fun action - I'm just not so sure that's what we're going to get with this movie. I'll be happy to be proved wrong, though.

"Either way, this new Star Trek movie looks pretty cool"

That was so bloody stupid - it's like that Dennis Hopper line from Speed: "In two hundred years we've gone from 'I regret that I have but one life to give for my country' to 'Fuck you!'" I mean, wouldn't a normal person (i.e. not a Tom Cruise character) want their last words to have some profundity or significance?…

Thanks - I think I actually read that article at the time, but (it would seem) immediately forgot its entire contents once I was done.

Ok, I have to admit I didn't know that. But my comment still stands, because I'm middle-aged and want to complain about something.

So, "Record Store Day" (which I'd not heard of before now) is a day set aside for people to go into record stores and actually buy music reissued on actual vinyl?! What the fuck is the fucking point of that, for fuck's sake?

If he doesn't do what he promised he would, I'll be asking for my money back for Spike.

Ricky Gervais, so make of that what you will.

Alien abduction and subsequent memory wipe?

Over the years, I've decided that, when listening to the musical output of these two guys, it's best to know as little as possible about their personal lives. Every time I break that rule (like today, by reading this review, and by clicking on that Pitchfork link), I find out something I would've rather not known.

I agree that the first couple of seasons don't seem so good in retrospect. But then, neither do the last 10 or 15 or so… is there some reason you're not including those seasons in your assessment?

He still is, I think? If the Bad Seeds' Australian tour info is to be believed, anyway.

Yes, that's just what I was thinking (and Wikipedia agrees, for what it's worth). I knew that unit of Soviet-era Russian history I did at university would come in handy one day…