Lana Del Rey's aesthetic doesn't speak to me on any deep level; I don't connect emotionally with what she's singing about, or identify with her persona, or find her attractive. So it comes down to her music which I have always felt treads a fine line between drama and pastiche. When she stays on the right side of it…

I once licked a Teletubbie at a summer music festival. Everybody else was doing it so I thought that I would too. When I came to my senses it was November and a previously endangered species of newt had been declared extinct in Norfolk. The guilt drove me into rehab.

This got me thinking about how the meaning of certain words changes down through the years:

Am I right in thinking there was an animal trap in with Lester's brothers guns. Given Malvo's monologue in the previous episode about witnessing a bear chewing off its leg to escape from a similar trap, I wonder whether it will come into play next week.

I've a feeling that the mooted eighth book in the series is going to be titled 'Things That Jon Snow Knows.'

A mastodon is launched 30 feet into the air, twisting on its axis before crashing down hard into the snow . A pair of wildlings emerge from underneath and dust themselves down.

'Spiderland' by the band Slint. In my mind I imagine this album to be the darling of people who are prone to dropping the word “tropes” into conversation, e.g:

I re-watched the last few minutes of Waterloo just to confirm that what I saw wasn't a rogue acid flashback or the early signs of a brain tumour.

MAD MEN SEASON SEVEN, EPISODE EIGHT

Hannibal's more or less one-sided conversation with the badly-injured Will, in which he appears to express a baffled sense of loss and disappointment, is such a sad and moving scene - one that draws its power from everything that has gone before it. It's probably the closest he's come to feeling and expressing real…

If I ever encounter a fan of 'The Auteurs,' or any of Luke Haines' myriad side-projects, I will give a nod of respect in their general direction, while at the same time acknowledging that we are probably both too misanthropic to form a functional friendship.

I can already mentally picture this prime-time gem:

I would like to see an ongoing series of mini-episodes comprising of Roger Sterling's reaction to various youth trends - boomboxes, Rubik's cubes etc.

Add to the relaxed attitude towards drinking and smoking in the offices of Sterling Cooper & Partners, a potentially fatal, off-hand approach to building site safety. Only two staff members bothered to wear hard hats and the thick lens glasses required to protect them from the machine's acid blood.

I saw the original Star Wars trilogy in theatres as a kid. The fact that Carrie Fisher was the sole female main character never once occurred to me as strange because I did not regard her gender as her defining characteristic. All I saw was Princess Leia - a prominent figure in the rebellion. I collected her action…

It's like Batman's returned to the Justice League but they've employed the Blue Beetle in his absence. Now Batman has to report to the Blue Beetle.

I have to attend my younger brother's wedding in a few hours. The dress code calls for purple to be worn.

The way in which both Graham and Lecter have manipulated the sufferers of obscure psychiatric disorders in order to effectively launch drone strikes against each other, is clearly a nod by Bryan Fuller to the golden age of slapstick cinema.

I am happy for the expanded universe to exist. In the same way I'm happy that there are parallel dimensions where Dumbledore, Spock and Sailor Moon have embarked on a five year erotic odyssey, in which they will explore the limits of human/vulcan pleasure by inserting foreign bodies into each other.

I once found a Best of Lou Reed CD in a car park. In addition to tracks from his solo career, up until the 'New Sensations' album, the compilation also contained songs by The Velvet Underground.