‘Twin Cinema’ for me – but in my experience people’s favourite NP albums are a bit like people’s favourite Dr Whos – it’s generally whichever one they first encountered. They’re all equally lovable, if that’s the sort of thing you love.

‘Twin Cinema’ for me – but in my experience people’s favourite NP albums are a bit like people’s favourite Dr Whos – it’s generally whichever one they first encountered. They’re all equally lovable, if that’s the sort of thing you love.

There has never, ever been a good one of these things, no matter how hard people try.
 
I recall hearing once that Jimi Hendrix was working on a ‘rock space opera’ when he died.
Can you imagine the extent to which that would have ruined Francis Ford Coppola’s career? Or the size of the hat Dennis Hopper would have been…

There has never, ever been a good one of these things, no matter how hard people try.
 
I recall hearing once that Jimi Hendrix was working on a ‘rock space opera’ when he died.
Can you imagine the extent to which that would have ruined Francis Ford Coppola’s career? Or the size of the hat Dennis Hopper would have been…

There's a new Godspeed? Hot damn! Going to see them in London in November…

There's a new Godspeed? Hot damn! Going to see them in London in November…

So yeah, I instinctively don’t like R&B – particularly male R&B artists, because I have a (probably lazy) view of the whole thing as autotune/bulging pecs in vests/poolside video/babybabyluvyagirl sludgy tedium that is, admittedly, based on glancing encounters with what’s popular rather than any deep investigation…

So yeah, I instinctively don’t like R&B – particularly male R&B artists, because I have a (probably lazy) view of the whole thing as autotune/bulging pecs in vests/poolside video/babybabyluvyagirl sludgy tedium that is, admittedly, based on glancing encounters with what’s popular rather than any deep investigation…

Regards the T-1000, Patrick is definitely on that small but admirable list of ‘actors who, when required to play things that don’t actually exist in the real world, clearly put some effort into thinking through what that might mean’. However he did it, he nailed the necessary trick of convincing you that there was…

Regards the T-1000, Patrick is definitely on that small but admirable list of ‘actors who, when required to play things that don’t actually exist in the real world, clearly put some effort into thinking through what that might mean’. However he did it, he nailed the necessary trick of convincing you that there was…

Like the X-files, but accompanied by a load of baby boomer senior management types relentlessly whining that the episodes don’t work hard enough and have an overweening sense of entitlement.

Like the X-files, but accompanied by a load of baby boomer senior management types relentlessly whining that the episodes don’t work hard enough and have an overweening sense of entitlement.

I didn't notice that! That, sir, is a piece of day-brightening trivia. Have a cake.

I didn't notice that! That, sir, is a piece of day-brightening trivia. Have a cake.

Also, yay on Nigel Kneale. Double yay on the basic idea of Nigel Kneale working with John Carpenter, which should have happened more often. Very, very different men character-wise that seem to have convergent ideas on how scary worked.
 
Did he do any advisory work on Prince of Darkness? That had a rather Nigel…

Also, yay on Nigel Kneale. Double yay on the basic idea of Nigel Kneale working with John Carpenter, which should have happened more often. Very, very different men character-wise that seem to have convergent ideas on how scary worked.
 
Did he do any advisory work on Prince of Darkness? That had a rather Nigel…

What, you mean, darker than parents forced to watch as their child's head is somehow dissolved into a mass of insects?

What, you mean, darker than parents forced to watch as their child's head is somehow dissolved into a mass of insects?

Nicholas Brendon's got a regular acting gig? That's oddly nice to know. I was a massive Buffy fan, and was dimly and sadly aware he was in a spot of chemically enhanced bother after (and, to a certain extent, during) the series and had entered something of a decline…

Nicholas Brendon's got a regular acting gig? That's oddly nice to know. I was a massive Buffy fan, and was dimly and sadly aware he was in a spot of chemically enhanced bother after (and, to a certain extent, during) the series and had entered something of a decline…