RIP. The songs he wrote didn’t tend to be the band’s strongest (hard to compete with the likes of Carole King), but I love “Circle Sky” and “The Girl I Knew Somewhere”. And his beanie was iconic.

A Castle For Christmas sounds like a much-less-good version of I Know Where I’m Going, so I may just rewatch that instead.

Noel’s last line on Royal Tenenbaums - “It’s an effective aesthetic, but it’ll never feel as surprising and new as it did with this beautifully melancholy vision.” - captures my experience seeing it as a teenager. A friend who had a parent in SAG brought over a screener and 10 or so of us watched it, not really…

Although the Virgin Mary dildo doesn’t hurt.

I thought Alun Thomas might be a reference to Edward Thomas, a British poet who died in WWI (though he wasn’t Welsh by birth, and I don’t think there’s any evidence he was gay). More likely, based on the name, it’s a reference to Dylan Thomas, probably the most famous Welsh poet and thought by at least some to be…

On the one hand, yes; on the other hand, there are so many potential ways to make an adaptation bad that I’m kind of glad nobody’s trying. (Though an adaptation would have the opportunity to improve the fairly weak final book.)

“Do you want me to play a ten-minute guitar solo?”
“When I point at you, yeah.”

No, you’re thinking of Morrissey.

She’s also had small roles on other TV shows and movies, including ... Dogma

The Miseducation of Laurel Hell

“All Too Well” is probably her best lyric and one of her best songs. I don’t know if a 10-minute version would be overkill but I’m curious to hear it. The song on Red that should have a 10-minute version is “State of Grace”, which is close enough to Krautrock that it would be fun to have a version that really leans…

I’ll take the opportunity to link to Hilobrow’s columns on the histories of condiments, De Condimentis, which were consistently interesting. https://www.hilobrow.com/2010/09/07/de-condimentis-1/

I hope they find an interesting way to incorporate both the Shakespeare and the comic book stuff, because that’s where a lot of the resonance of the book came from for me. I’d happily have an entire episode that was basically a condensed Shakespeare play, and full scenes that act as animated approximation of the Dr.…

Four tracks from Voulez-Vous and just one from each of Super Trouper and The Visitors is an odd choice (and you didn’t even pick the best song on Voulez-Vous, “The King Has Lost His Crown”). Anyway, the title track on Visitors is essential, as is “The Winner Takes It All.” I’ll also shout out some late non-album…

Good comment - I give it an 8/10. 

I don’t know exactly what you mean by “the discourse”, but there is a pretty consistent strain of small-c conservatism running through the Kinks’ catalog, along with a lot of pretty explicit political references, and Davies himself has clearly thought a lot about what it means to live in the modern world (most…

I would much rather watch a movie about espionage and assassination between the cast and crews of two competing biopics.

I have an antique breadbox I inherited from my mother. It looks nice and is pretty convenient. I also store ginger in it, which also seems to like a dry environment.

I know there’s no music being played, but I’ll still put on the record-throwing scene from Shaun Of The Dead.

Casting Rita Tushingham, Diana Rigg, and Terence Stamp in a movie partly set in 1960s London is some quality stunt casting. Anyway, I was somewhat mixed on Baby Driver so I won’t rush to this one, but I’m sure it’ll be worth catching eventually.