Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Let all your rage build up then unleash a barrage of swears at a car rental secretary lady.

The Book of Strange New Things for me. It's by the guy who wrote Under the Skin and tells the story of a Christian missionary who has to travel to another planet to tell aliens about Jesus. It's immensely addictive.

Nahh. 2000 is the first year of the 00's just like 1990 is the first year of the 90's.

I never thought it was his actual DeLorean until I read the interview in Edge magazine that the picture was from. It's his DeLorean.

Oh Jesus no

Yeah, especially because Octillery is this brilliant shade of red and Remoraid is pale as fuck. Plus, Octillery is actually good.

Oh my God that War Games bit. That's where I gave up: I hadn't even seen the film. Did the book get any better after that?

I think it was a comment on this very website which theorised that regular old animals do indeed exist in the pokemon world, and pokemon appeared alongside them through this spirit system.

I love speculating about this kind of stuff. 'Nowhere Man' is inarguably a song by John about himself, but it's fun to listen to it imagining that it's about Paul.

See, I get why people dislike Birthday: it's a stupid stomper with little artistic merit, but I don't think it's very 'skippable' at all. It's short, it's dynamic, and it works really well as an opener. Not a standout track, but I'd rather start side three with Birthday than Yer Blues.

Fuck, man… I was looking for a good entry point into Star Wars books (tried Darth Plagueis: too many references to other obscure EU stuff) but the prose in this extract is pretty shite. Maybe I'll just wait for the trade of Marvel's new Star Wars comic book.

Courtney Barnett's proper debut would have made a nice addition; there's some genuinely great guitar on that album, as well as the much lauded lyrics. My favourite album of the year so far, though, has to go to the latest from Noah Lennox: 'Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.' It's his most aggressive, thumping album…

I'm pretty sure Valve once donated a replica portal gun, which was signed by loads of developers, to charity, and one of the signatures was just 'NO HL3 FUCK YOU.'

This is from the Empire Film Podcast: apparently Whedon himself was determined to cut the film down to a shorter length than the first one.

In Edgar Wright's commentary, I believe he says the films producers wanted the dance game in the film to contextualise why Scott is so good at fighting. Take that for what you will.

In a weird way, it's a lot more jovial and fun than most of the other character designs that have been coming from DC. So yeah, I'd say it looks alright. Question is, will he be perma-shirtless?

Yeah, I think Syndrome's motive was more anti-Ayn Rand philosophy than monetary gain

Here's some trivia: 'You Just Don't Exist' is a song by Plumtree, the Canadian all-girl twee rock group that also wrote the song 'Scott Pilgrim', inspiring the graphic novels.

No mention of the return of The Dissolve podcast? half the A.V. Club's staff host it, for chrissakes.

I read that, in the event of his death, Linklater planned to hand over directorial duties for Boyhood to Ethan Hawke.