"Redux redux"?

Last night, finished latest of Charlie Stross's Laundry series, The Delirium Brief.
I love this series (British occult intelligence bureau vs Cthulhu & other monsters, heavy on the geek). This one is basically a season ender: vast number of dangling plot hooks get pulled, in a variety of brutal and unexpected ways. The…

"Do not shoot at the nuclear weapons!"

Basically, John Constantine without cigarettes and with living friends.

Despite health (tl;dr, I have 4 slipped discs in my neck, plus food poisoning Friday followed by 3 day flu) started writing my next lecture: Combat Magic In Theory And Practice, for a London occult salon on 1 August.

Some quality prog here.

John Corigliano - 'Anna's Theme' (The Red Violin OST)
Danny Elfman - 'Clown Attack' (Batman Returns OST)
Two Steps From Hell - 'Entombed'
AC/DC - 'Back In Black'
Peter Gabriel - 'Stealing The Children' (The Long Way Home OST)
Gomez - 'Bring It On'
David Bowie - 'Soul Love'
Gomez - 'Shot Shot'
Two Steps From Hell - 'Men of…

…but will there be pedantry?

You blew yourself??

Got MRI results for the weird tingly numbness in my hands, severe shooting pains in my shoulder and arms and other fun stuff I've had for the past couple of months.

The portraits on the agent's wall: two are crooked - and I think they're Ennis and Dillon.
Also on the wall in the room (behind him), like many other walls this season - a photo of Bill Hicks.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Hoping that The Goatfucker gets a full arc in S2.

And the rest of the team were using satellite phones.

Needs more Clean Room.

Buried lede: whole series scripted by Warren Ellis.

Zbigniew Preisner - 'Reprise - First Appearance' (Three Colours Blue)
Carter USM - 'Say It With Flowers'
Clint Mansell - 'Memories (Someone We'll Never Know)' (Moon OST)
The Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir - 'Mir Stanke Le (Harvest Chant From Thrace)'
Kate Bush - 'The Fog'
Zbigniew Preisner - 'Pluie'…

Noting once again that I live in Sheeran's home town of Hebden Bridge… and that nobody here mentions him. Ever. He's basically shunned.

kidneythieves - 'Amnzero'
Angel Corpus Christi - 'Nature Girl'
Steve Earle - 'God Is God'
Abney Park - 'Throw Them Overboard'
Pink Floyd - 'Jugband Blues'
Gogol Bordello - 'Lost Innocent World'
Cliff Martinez - 'Walk With The Anarchists' (Kafka OST)
Blonde Redhead - 'Love Or Prison'
Gomez - 'Natural Reaction'

Noting Furst's directing career began during B5 - among others, he directed the key 4th season finale 'The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars'.