Your cryptic (but entertaining!) story leaves me curious about what line of work you are in! I’m thinking you either organise bespoke bouncy castles for kids’ parties, or medieval battle re-enactments….? 🙂

I’ve already admitted elsewhere on this thread I like The Wheel. So let me downgrade my Afterword rep further still and admit I watch Eastenders. Me and my wife both watch it, usually as easy viewing at the end of […]

By the way, I unashamedly love The Wheel. Is anyone else going to admit to this? Low-brow, populist Saturday night telly it might be, but it’s terrific. And Michael McIntyre is great (yes, you heard me): one of […]

Wow, what a grim outlook. I keep going to reply with an objection to what you are saying then I realise there’s no way round it. Either we somehow protect the BBC or it will get submerged into other more […]

I suppose if it’s not popular enough, and not enough people value it, then we can’t keep forcing people to fund it.

Personally, I love it and would gladly pay double the licence fee to keep it going. If only […]

There’s a live album that’s only about 20 minutes long! Came out in the mid eighties I think. The LP is insane: it’s still 33rpm and all squashed up like a typical 80s pressing, so each side is about 2/3 blank vinyl.

Yeah that’s fair. It might depend a bit on how big a Doors fan you are before watching the film. At the time I didn’t know much about them: I had heard that double Greatest Hits album and that was about it. So I […]

And Kyle of course was excellent in Dune, Blue Velvet, Sex and The City…. Was he ever in anything else…?

Top grossing movie of 2008: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (Eek)

Top album act of 2008: Coldplay (Cripes)

Top TV show of 2008: The X Factor (Yaroo)

On second thoughts, I’ll take […]

Oh come on now take this seriously you SLAVE. The world is burning and you squares are just making stupid jokes instead of listening to the wisdom of MR MOJO RISIN’… etc etc.

No, I totally agree with your view of Jim Morrison. I maybe glossed over that a bit by just referring to the alpha male/ leather trousers bit – but I totally get what you mean about that feminine side. Probably a […]

AND BOWIE.

2008? Wow. Seems like a far gone innocent time now, doesn’t it?

This particular bit from the comment section made me grimace a bit:

“Charlie, your views are coloured by living in London. You’re not seeing […]

EXACTLY!! THANK YOU.

There was something that bothered me conceptually about Into The Spider-Verse. I’ll struggle to explain this, but hear me out. You go into the film knowing it is going to be a film about a young kind called Miles […]

Clever!

I’m such a wuss I even self-censor the “w”-word in The Boxer when I sing it.

You know what I believe is better than Into The Spiderverse, and from which I believe that film copied a lot of its tone, plot and style?

Big Hero 6. If you’ve never seen, I recommend it heartily. (Mind you, it […]

You lot should try Scotland!

As the mighty Billy Connolly once said about our weather: “If you don’t like it…. then just hang about for five minutes and it will probably change.”

I think yesterday I went […]