I find the opening sequence of Get Over It with Vitamin C weirdly poignant.

I went to see Fleetwood Mac at the O2 in London. Fantastic first half but got a little too rawk gig for me in the latter bit with drum solos and the like. Great to see Christine McVie back in the ranks.
Saw Natalie Prass earlier in the week. Was surprised by how string her voice is live and very much enjoyed her…

Couldn't agree more with your first point. I think 'From Here to Eternity' is a fantastic album though.

Yeah, completely agree with your first point. The cautious tone of the film ruined it. The Dameons and the design were cool though. Incidentally, I'm sure there was a bit in the trailer that suggested the book ending was filmed.

Take a pillow.

“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."

That scene in Vanya with the seamless transition into the text of the play is one of my favourite things ever - sheer magic.

…and they are the best bits. Sheer magic.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'?

"I've been to Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe"

Remember the Viz Student Grant T-shirt. 'You know that Student Grant? That's you that is.' Happy times.

That puts me in mind of the eerily prophetic line in PSB's King's Cross - 'Only last night I found myself lost, by the station called King's Cross, dead and wounded on either side, you know it's only a matter of time' - just two months prior to the fire.

The synthesised 'nyaow' sound on 'Love Action' is rivalled only by the one from 'Can't Get You Out of My Head'.

It's great, but it's still the worst single off the album IMHO.

I really liked the Raw Sex PSB parody on 'French and Saunders'. https://www.youtube.com/wat… The spoken bit went 'When we first met, were you looking for a lover, or just looking for some fun?' and the chorus went something like 'I'm good at standing up, it pays the rent.' In an interview Chris Lowe said that they…

I agree and have marked it accordingly. Transmission ends.

I've only seen a couple of episodes of Letterman when I was visiting the US, but the one I remember is the top ten reasons why Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait: Reason no. 6 was "To impress Jodie Foster",

I was watching 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' the other day' and with all the overlapping dialogue it feels like an Altman film, but with Aliens.

It's eerily prophetic though: 'One day all sci-fi & fantasy films will star British actors!' it proclaimed and here we are.

I posted something similar up above before reading this.