Okay, having read the article that JCrowemancer posted, I will concede that Nicholas Sparks is a prick.

Nicholas Sparks = sleeps in a bed made of money, laughs at all of us, writes next book…. good luck to him. I'd do the same in his shoes.

That's a lot of hate for a writer you'll probably never read and a selection of films you'll probably never watch. Each to their own, you know.

They obviously had a thing for North West London
I live between Elgin Avenue and Kilburn High Road. Woo hoo! (Abbey Road isn't far away either… who knew this was the centre of all modern music?)

Pearl Jam and Soul Asylum live
Ah, those were the days. When I finally became the proud owner of a CD player, Soul Asylum's Gravedigger's Union was one of the first CDs I bought. It provided an early, and regularly forgotten, lesson in why not to buy an album based on one song.

Kudos to these enthusiastic, dead-eyed weirdos for actually making an effort and putting this together. I will, however, reserve my right to do nothing but make snide remarks from the sidelines.

Unlucky, cocksucker.

I think it will be a fairly down to earth film.

DeLorean already has a concept album
Hopefully one of these biopics will be based upon Neon Neon's Stainless Style, ideally with cameos from Gruff Rhys and Har Mar Superstar.

They don't seem to have that sort of music in trailers anymore. Shame…

Starting at the beginning
I can't imagine that anyone who takes the trouble of logging onto the AV Club will do anything other than start a series/serial of books at the beginning.

I've read nearly halfway into the series and there are scenes in the movie that come from other books as well.

Boring! In my space film
all the characters will return from their mission in one piece and with their team fully intact. They might bitch about their fellow crew members a bit, but on the whole they will have forged long lasting friendships, regularly meeting up with them back on Earth for tennis games, barbeques and…

I assume that Ben Linus will be the wide receiver in this relationship. Then Locke can go for the reach around.

Snugglesaurus, I think you're being a little unfair on Donnie Brasco there. I thought the film was a pretty good standalone effort (based on a true story after all, so the age difference was probably necessary rather than a pure marketing ploy), and Johnny Depp was well-established as a serious actor by then. That…

I don't think Jason Albert resents Oprah's power, I think he's just a clove cigarette smoking, vermouth drinking, 17 year old, who writes his thoughts in a tatty, coffee-stained, Moleskine notebook. The prospect of being seen to like something that has entered the mainstream, and is enjoyed by middle-aged,…

"I think it has something to do with how I view her flock (probably unfairly), but I imagine all of them as dead-eyed adherents refusing to seek out anything on their own."

London Fields is one of the most irritating books I've ever read. Sometimes I get the impression that's exactly what Amis is trying to do. Apparently when he was writing Money, he knew exactly the point where his father would throw the book across the room in disgust: when the character Martin Amis appears. I thought…

You're not alone haysoos. I feel your pain. Zoolander just isn't that funny (especially that school for ants gag). Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder on the other hand.

I read the Sea
and had to have a dictionary on hand to decipher some of the willfully obscure words he kept using. I see nothing wrong with a big vocabulary, but I get the impression that Banville writes with a thesaurus by his side, regularly opting for incomprehensible words, when a simple one will suffice.