The Good: The Thing in HD or whatever it was. Much like the Top Gun Anniversary screenings, it's a film I've seen many times before but still managed to feel more special on the big screen. The petri dish scene is surely the most suspenseful moment I've ever seen in a film: this is at least the tenth time I've seen it…

Vic Mackey said it was the Armenians.

I like figs but that's a trade off I'd be more than willing to make.

One thing I was happy to find out in the wake of Pete Burns death was the strong friendship between him and Morrissey; and then I was immediately saddened when I realised the only other friendship I could think of between the two of them was Pete and George Galloway.

Fan: "This is going to be a pointless fanwank sprawl like Lost was."
HBO exec: "You're getting close."

I've always thought Jason Schwartzman was a terrible actor but hearing him strenuously deny the importance of his family connections when getting into the acting business made me think he was a dickhead too.

Not mentioned is her citing 2 Live Crew and Mickey Rooney as inspiration for her material about asians.

Always. I remember when Armand Van Helden and A-Trak first started Duck Sauce and I heard Barbra Streisand in gay bars exclusively for months before I heard it in straight places.

I'm going to see a restoration of The Thing this weekend and can't wait. I've never thought of it as a horror movie: it's more like a spy movie with a monster instead of an enemy agent, kind of like how Heat is a crime drama with a great shootout but not the action movie people tend to consider it as.

There's also less and less places to actually perform in the UK anymore. A lot of venues have been forcibly closed down for gentrification.

TV is as bad as it's ever been, only because nobody cares about movies, good actors take it seriously now and so the networks can spend more money on it. I don't know enough about hip hop to really say.

Slasher films also do nothing for me. Whatever the killer is, be it a xenomorph or a guy with a knife in a hockey mask, as soon as they start killing, it goes from being a movie to a long QTE section in an FMV game, where I'm waiting for the monster to pop out - and the closest thing to fear is assuming there's going…

Not if you intend on doing it well.

EDM is odd because it's new in America but it's basically a grab bag of stuff that's been going on in Europe for decades. I hope that it's on the way out and getting replaced with some actually good house, trance and techno instead.

They should learn from the rock 'n' roll greats and sing about overdosing on heroin and raping teenage girls.

What scene is thriving?

That's one thing I find really bizarre. There's a nightclub where I live that has four floors, each one a different genre of music, and they still play the same music today on the rock music floor as they did when I first went almost a decade ago - and the music wasn't contemporary to almost a decade ago either - even…

That metric goes a long way to explaining why art of almost all forms are dead.

Any artform that has an impeachable canon ends up dying soon after and rock seemed to hit that a while ago. I don't know if there's a broader timeline but my interest in the genre died around the time emo came in because the backlash against it being too feminine coincided with classic rock and heavy metal from the…

I listen to a lot of classic dance music and the comments are both the only ones I regularly see that aren't full of hate and slurs as well as also being the only ones that regularly break my heart because they're always reminiscing about the rave scene before it got closed down/commodified completely.