Saturday, I went to see Simon Callow reading the writings of Ancient Roman satirist / poet Juvenal in the style of a nightclub stand-up, replete with mother-in-law jokes, which was great fun.

Mike from E.T. He teases his brother but steps up when he's needed. And he shows his soulful side when he's squatting in the cupboard.

I went to see the the excellent Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition at the Barbican where they had Madonna's conical bra and Grace Jones' jacket from 'Nightclubbing'.

Completely agree with your assessment of 'Two Day…' cumulative impact.
I think I'm alone in actually liking the ambiguous ending of 'The Lunchbox'.

Annoyingly, there was a (I think) free gig in London on Wednesday, sponsored by website Popjustice, where she was playing, but I didn't find out about if until afterwards.

Saw 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I was unfamiliar with source material but enjoyed banter / characters. Little bit too larky for my tastes, maybe
Halfway through 'The Little Friend'. Not as good as the books that (ahem) bookend it but still dazzled by writing.
Loving the La Roux album 'Trouble in Paradise' - openers…

'Headhunters' is a riot and woefully neglected.

Python at the O2 ( this was actually last Tuesday, but I just wanted to tell someone) and I'm playing catch up with 'True Detective' and St Vincent's music.

Yes.

Andrea Riseborough was great in 'Oblivion'. You got the feeling that Victoria did remember.

Locke, The Lunchbox, Boyhood (although I don't think it's a masterpiece) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier for its political audaciousness and the scene in the elevator.
Oh, I forgot, 'Two Days and One Night' and 'Night Moves' are great too.
Also there's an upcoming film called 'Pride' about striking miners and…

More his ability to outrun a speeding Metro and his probable fear of dinosaurs (c) Viz

I've recently discovered Lindisfarne's 'Nicely Out of Tune' album, which is splendid.

The Cat's Eyes album is great too.

Newcastle, so Neil Tennant for his peerless wit and invention.

I went to the Matisse Cut-out exhibition at Tate Modern - the original put-a-bird-on-it artist. I watched some of Glastonbury on TV which was pretty dreary, although Dolly Parton doing the Benny Hill theme was memorable. Also watched the 'The 50 Year Argument', Martin Scorsese's excellent documenatary about the New…

Completely agree. I was really looking forward to it, but couldn't get past the first half of episode 1. The canned laughter was intolerable.

Being sat near to someone in theatre / cinema who does that does that single clap after they've laughed at something.

Licky_kickete and I are in Copenhagen and my sole piece of pop culture exposure this weekend has been listening to an Eddie Vedder soundalike busker doing horrible versions of horrible U2 songs - grim. We did go and see Borgen yesterday though.

'Where's the wellies and duffle coat?' asks very British person of a certain age.
The old BBC serial was pretty cool: a stop motion animated teddy bear interacting with paper people.