Fuck the "anarchists" among the student demonstrators in London today who decided to try and kick off a fight with the police, when friends of mine spent months organising it and hoping to ensure that it would be a peaceful protest. Fuck the Trotskyist who called me at 2am demanding with an unreasonable list of last…

Bruce Springsteen- The River
Alt-J - Choice Kingdom
Babyshambles- Delivery
Fleetwood Mac- Go Your Own Way
Nick Cave- Leonard Cohen's Suzanne
Tom Waits- Going Out West
The Last Shadow Puppets- My Mistakes Were Made For You
The Smiths- Jeane
Pearl Jam- Even Flow

I've never fully gotten in to podcasts, but some of these actually sound really interesting. Genuinely good job, internet!

Dubai makes so little sense to me. It's like a bunch of major industries looked at the sudden boom in oil prices and went "There's no way this bubble will burst! Let's keep making the most overblown shit possible forever!" It's going to be such a weird desert ghost town in 50 years.

Tarantino seems like kind of a jackass. But then, so do the sort of people who'd boycott an artist's movies just because he happens to protest the actions of the worst of a group. I love trade unionism, but goddamn if police unions can't be some of the most spoilt babies in the movement. Fuck, I'm drunk and my…

Slaughterhouse Five might have my favourite opening chapter in all of literature, but Franco sounds more like one of the American visiting students at my college muttering their way through a seminar than giving a proper dramatic reading

Gilgun's work on the sequel series of This is England is, if anything, even better than the work he did on the movie. There's a long single-shot sequence in the third episode of '90 in which he does work which ought to win him every BAFTA going.

Utopia was pretty great. That kind of paranoid claustrophobia being brought to a zombie movie might not make for a totally original movie, but it could be a massive improvement on the first, which played it too broad and lacked the intimacy and personality which made the novel so unique in the first place.

Let's just say the hatred really moved Disney…TO A BIGGER HOUSE!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it!

I have no idea how likely it is given the budget constraints, but I'd love to see the Vietnam stories from Jesse's father/Space make it into the show somehow. Ennis' flare for war stories in comics is as good as anything I've seen in any medium, so it'd be nice to pay tribute to the source material by including them.

I have no idea what the storytelling in this will be like, and whether or not the length of a TV series is going to hurt the tightly-plotted arcs of the comic. But Jesus, I am so ready for Joe Gilgun as Cassidy the vampire I don't care about any of that nonsense.

But what about Fear the Walking, Talking Dead?

How is a non-professional golfer scoring a whole in one less likely than irrefutable evidence that Elvis is alive?

I remember reading the pitch for the Young Bruce Wayne show, and it sounded really interesting. I think it would still have petered out, and the international exploration would have been difficult on a TV budget, but it sounded like a globetrotting X Files meets Kung Fu.

It's in exactly the same situation as Smallville. That was a Clark Kent show that became a Superman show but seemed embarrassed of being a Superman show. This is a Jim Gordon show that's becoming a Batman Villain show because Jim Gordon alone is just a cop until Batman shows up. The idea of a prequel superhero series…

Glad to hear your dad's doing better. You should check out the Prince Charles Cinema sometime, they have some great old movie showings.

As always, I have an ongoing tutorial essay. This one is on Physical Fallibility in Thom Gunn's collection of AIDS-inspired poetry, The Man With Night Sweats.

The Strokes- You Only Live Once
Moby- Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Blood Orange- Chamaky
Bloc Party- Banquet
Massive Attack- Teardrop
Radiohead- All I Need
Junip- Without You
Placebo- Every You, Every Me
The Rolling Stones- Shine a Light
Peggy Lee- Fever

Under the Terms of Separation, Starwipe gets the Big Red No, that one picture of Courtney Love with the turtle on her head and a schizophrenic editorial tone. AVClub gets to keep OF COCK, Hatesong and Dikachu. They get Barsanti on alternate weekends.