The ending almost made up for the bore-fest of a mystery plot that preceded it.

I love the looms, such a disgusting and alien idea.

Oh yeah and it bothers me just as much then. I get that literature is by it's nature, contrived, but the magic one-time problem-solver thing just drives me crazy. See also, the army of ghosts in the LOTR movies that straight up murder everyone in league with Sauron rendering the whole story moot. If you introduce…

Are you saying he doesn't think they're deep, because if so, I think that makes them even worse.

"We are completely at the whim of the people putting on the shows, arranging transport and gear, paying for flights, setting up publicity etc"

Or they'd simply continue, but without any public outcry for tougher gun control laws.

I visited Newcastle for a few days earlier in the year when I was attending a funeral up north and I can't see why it gets such a bad rap. This was a weekend, the beach was gorgeous and empty, the parking was free in the CBD, there were cool cafes, micro-breweries and weird shops everywhere and the buildings and shit…

You're going to get a lot of those over here. We are a black hole of culture. I'm in my mid twenties and have met plenty of people who've never read a single book and instead of being ashamed about that have a weird sense of pride about it and will boast about it at parties without a trace of irony or self-awareness.…

One of my favourite things about Australia is that we're allowed to refuse visas to people based on character grounds. It's such a beautiful slap in the face for the many douchebags of the world.

I really hope something comes of the charges against Heard. Particularly given the way she and Depp have shown no remorse for bringing illegal undocumented animals into a country without rabies and potentially threatening the existence of entire eco-systems and thousand of species by doing so, all because they're rich…

We have a history of being fucked over by American entertainers who basically don't treat Australia with any respect. Especially rap artists.

It's hard to know wether Glover or the Promoters are to blame at this point. He had a guest appearance as a part of this Royalty or whatever DJ groups tour. When they played Sydney it was advertised as being just that and tickets were sold for $10, but then when they played Newcastle it was advertised as Donald Glover…

Along with some muddled poorly expressed and weirdly chauvinistic ideas about feminism!

Fuck off troll.

Right except that that isn't a rigid unchanging dynamic. In THIS episode, Cartman is the voice of the shows writers.

This is why man invented cliff-notes.

There's some good stuff in this genre though e.g Tallest Man On Earth and Iron and Iron and Wine.

Game Of Thrones is pretty good, because of the characters and power dynamics that get explored later on, but it's biggest problem is that it's in the fantasy genre and fantasy is inherently bullshit. Mostly because whenever you write yourself into a corner you can just conjure up a magic whateverthefuck to get you out…

I might be able to appreciate Radiohead if they didn't have a singer and were instead a post-rock outfit or something like that. Thom Yorke with his mush-mouthed, half-mumbled, half garbled singing and self-pitying sad-sack abstract lyrics that he thinks are deep, but come off more like a teenagers dream-journal are…

Beyond Thunderdome is very under-rated and as good as Road Warrior imo. They just released an anthology collection of all four films so I've been burning through them.