I think my musical gift would be "Mirror To The Soul - Music, Culture and Identity In The Caribbean 1920 - 72" a 40 track double album, book and documentary from the mighty Soul Jazz Records.

I'll happily take your book gift. Completely missed that being released.

Ra! Ra! Ra! We're going to smash the oiks!

American shows seem to be full of English actors doing fairly convincing American accents.

Tay.
The white stripes am frum brummagem, tay weird that them do the music. An If it were loike doin a merican show, it'd be full of english actors doin convincing accents ay it?

I'm glad he got to do it, wish fulfilment stuff for Shane, but he was really the wrong man to document this. Way too much of a fan. Looking forward to what ever comes next, be it This is England 1990, his Ouija board horror film thing or even King of The Gypsies.

Friday Went to see The Crystals Fighters live; loads of energy, great show, hillariously pretentious yet always entertaining. Definite drop in quality between the first album and the most recent one though.

With all the noughties Brit-Com love in this list I'd just like to say

So no one gets stuck on a ski lift and eaten by wolves?

Wow. Does anything with Brits in get measured by a different barometer? I think watching the first episode gave me brain damage.

Bonnie fucking Langford… She utterly broke my love of Who.
And Ace was awful too.

I hate guitar solos. Even when I was a rocker I hated solos. They just kill tracks stone dead for me. It's all about the riff, the groove the boogie, then you get this indulgent showing off shit… Pah

It's different… I don't like different.

They don't make TV shows like this now

Man I loved that 90's run of Kitano, excepting Getting Any, that just didn't translate for me.
Sonatine is all time Top 10 for me. Kids Return is really under appreciated film, lovely stuff.
Violent Cop was the first one I saw in the early 90's, it was marketed in the UK as being on a John Woo heroic bloodshed vibe so…

To be fair, Burning Spear was a vocal trio originally, Marcus Garvey, Garvey's Ghost and Man In The Hills era. It was only later he took on the name as a solo artist. 

I love this movie and look forward to ignoring the remake.
First attempt to watch this theatrically was a bit of disaster as we fled the cinema in terror. Not a good film to watch whilst tripping balls.

The original is fantastic, so much so I've avoided the remake completely. I'd give the Mel version a go if they stick with the original full on Gaia nutter concept and he turns into a tree at the end?

It's not quite shitting yourself, it's a variation on turtles head, rather than fully laying dogs eggs in your undercrackers.

I don't think that series of Max Headroom is available in
the UK either anymore. Would love to see Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future again.