And the Specials' 'Little Bitch' which apparently Richards heard and wasn't very happy about…

Ha, that's probably why that review read so off to me. The show (as far as I had seen) had already shot down those argument so seeing someone earnestly bring them up was confusing.

Yeah, I'd just assumed that his obsession with finding Mia was a 'get my partner back' thing, so having it be actually trying to get his surrogate Mum back was a welcome twist.

Did they keep the 'I optimised angle of penetration' or whatever he said?

I've just watched Gone Girl and I'm imagining something like that sex scene.

* Not enough people talk about

Oh, I'm not saying that he has no right to be annoyed. I was more commenting on the general thing that when films like this come out people who were close to the subject always come out to publicly claim their personal view of the person as the objective truth. I've no issue with him saying that the Wallace in the…

I'm definitely not going to argue with you. I think you're right, the ethos of that album is as tight as their 'concept' albums - it's back to basics in a number of ways.
I think I meant that the album doesn't have the musical unity (for want of a better term) that Monitor (and seemingly TMLT) have with all the sound…

I find that more annoying because if you've got a playlist going and a track has silence at the end it breaks up the flow. I much prefer it to be a separate track.

His name is Tugboat Maguire.

I think, for me, Local Business sounds better for taking a step back and not listening to it as the follow up to The Monitor. It's definitely more of a collection of songs than an album and it doesn't have the coherence that their other records have, but the songs are good.

"Gold Frappe
He's the man, the man with the Starbucks touch.
The coldest touch…"

Out of the list on the link I'd say that Florence + the Machine would be an interesting (while still likely) choice. Unfortunately it'll probably be Sam Smith, which is a dangerous choice as you really want people to not fall asleep during the title sequence…

This is not literary criticism though, aside from parsing a Kafka reference (but overstating it by a mile) all it does is lash out at strawmen and cast aspersions on the writer and his audience. It's sub-blog level reactionary bullshit.

It's odd that when the claims that they were fictionalised came out (I think Franzen was the most famous one) that it was treated as shocking that Wallace's essays were not wholly true. I mean, if you just read them it's obvious that he playing with the facts to get the story. It's not journalism. If you're expecting…

I spent so long agonising that I was missing the greater plot that I missed some of its great little moments. Need to give it a reread.

I don't think this is or should be considered a biopic.* It's an adaptation of a book by a journalist that is much about him that it is Wallace.

The Russos would be a good shout, but it would probably feel like a retread of The Winter Soldier.

I honestly thought they were talking about the International Monetary Fund which made the trailers super confusing.

Most people don't have a mainstream TV show and a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph to broadcast their shitty views, though.