The Beautiful South's Carry On Up The Charts is an absolute classic best of. It was a huge hit in its own right as well.

No, Springsteen wrote 'Fire'.

[drives truck up] "'ere mate, where you want this line towed to then?"

Yup - I think it's better narrative-wise that he didn't but could have. If he did he'd have just been a shite, case closed, but the idea that although he didn't he probably would have is just as damning for him.

Outside of the US he needs an agency with at least For Esme - With Love and Squalor

I… I don't get it?

Nah, History would start off with docs about WW2 (specifically Hitler) before going into 'ancient aliens' and finally just endless repeats of Pawn Stars and Storage War…

Are you thinking of Stephen King?

And those of us from his hometown can't wait!

Michael Pitt in Boardwalk Empire as well - I was convinced he was a terrible actor until I saw him in something else and realised that, duh, Jimmy Darmody was just severely traumatised hence the blank expression etc.

Anansi Boys definitely suffers from Gaiman Whimsy (TM) to the point it feels barely connected to American Gods

Not necessarily w/r/t this, but in general I'm finding Wikileaks increasingly troubling. They seem very agenda-driven in what they release which you'd think would be anathema to their 'all info must be free' thing.

Did I just watch Danny DeVito's birth?

Most of Tyrion's scenes this season felt like the writers were thinking 'Shoot, we need to give Dinklage something to do, I guess?'

The Phantom.

Yeah, I don't think she is attracted to Price or wants to sleep with him - she knows that he has a fascination with her (sexual or otherwise) and she's going to try to exploit it to her own ends (there is the possibility that she's trying to take down ECorp from the inside and is prepared to go to any lengths to…

I think she was looking at an advert for anxiety medication (or a self-help thing, a bit like Angela?)

And Patsy Cline (there was a poster on her wall)

Once it's over the hill? It goes down, yeah?

Just finished Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker which was brilliant. It's a novel about a young British Army officer who loses both legs in an IED attack (which is similar to the authors own bio, having served in Iraq/Afghanistan and lost both legs), but the interesting thing about it is that it is told from the…