"On Writing" is brilliant. I think that while people can argue about the quality of his output, that book shows that King thoroughly understands both his genre and his craft.

Why is there a picture of Morrissey on top of an article about Jimmy Stewart?

Much like his father's work - of which I was a big fan - I've found the collection "20th Century Ghosts" Hill's best work so far. Even when King was at his most rambling, the short story and novella collections always hit the mark and it may be that the apple falls not far from the tree.

JCVD sure had a lot of (drugs) fun back in the day.

I'm of two minds. If everything is available all the time then surely the quality will rise to the top, since anyone can find anything anytime they want, and on an egalitarian playing field quality will win out.

Alternately because it initially came out as a regular CD with the two remaining songs on a seperate 3 inch mini-CD.

Care to elucidate? I've only seen it maybe twice, but thought it held up - though I'm not one for multiple viewings much anyway.

I should have said "punk" rather than punk, because I did mean in intent, focus, and "did it my way" attitude rather than musical genre. I was a metal/rivet-head found Tori captured the emotion and experimentation I was seeking albeit from an entirely different vantage point.

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Whatever else Tori's done, I would argue that Little Earthquakes (and to a lesser extent Under the Pink) are more punk than a lot of punk. Especially in the 90s a bunch of lads singing "fuck the rules" was a lot more mainstream than a woman singing about masturbation, rape, while exploring/stretching what an acoustic…

You forgot Peep Show and Man Down and Nathan Barley and The Office and AbFab and The Thick of IT and Cuckoo and Phone Shop and The Inbetweeners and Uncle and Saxondale (which I'd argue is better than AP in a lot of ways) and Jaaaaaaam and Toast of London plus loads, loads more.

Thoroughly agree on RDJA, but that could just be because of my fierce love of "Girl/Boy Song".

His was the best episodes of MTV Cribs, too. Guy lived in a haunted mansion of his own creation.

"We need to go after these fungus-based crab-like lifeforms?"
"We go?"
"No, Mi-go!"

Who does Gary Neuman want to be when he grows up?
Gary Oldman.

Though "Carry on Cthulhu" sounds like an absolute cracker of a film.

Isn't part of the point of the book and movie that all the occupants are middle class? Even the architect, while upper-middle-class, is still a working professional. James Purefoy et al still go to work in the morning.

"At the bottom" in this case meaning "still better than most other films".

Seconded. "A Horrible Way to Die" is an excellent film. Production values can't stand up to the latter films, but I think as an exploration of the (spoiler) serial killer genre it's right up there.

A friend of a friend is doing a series on Australian comedy and one of the episodes focuses on Australian comedians in Hollywood. Bana said that during the shooting of this film at one point Gervais said to him "you know, for a dramatic actor, your sense of comedy and timing is spot on" and Bana had to tell him that…