CEX has done the business (2 disc DVD for just 50 of your puny earthling pence) so I’ll revisit Jackie Brown in the very near future.

This is why I didn’t play – I would have spat my dummy right here. Mighty though it is, Liege and Lief isn’t even Fairport’s best album of 1969. Retrospective tip of the hat to Unhalfbricking.

That ‘best since Jackie Brown’ opinion is one I have seen a lot since this film came out, which surprised me as I found Jackie Brown was a bit of a bore at the time and haven’t really thought about it, or seen it […]

Monica Bellucci was cast in the last one, and she was a couple of years older than Daniel Craig.

Saw it, loved it, blimey! In that order.

We’ve booked to see it tonight (my other half is a huge Tarantino fan).

Sounds fab, though apart from the Fannies and Mogwai probably not a line up I would go that trouble to see. Cruises have never appealed to me, but a floating festival with hundreds of like-minded fans could be […]

I vaguely recall that he was due to sign copies of his book of paintings at the same shop about 20 years ago, but it was called off because it was thought the size of the crowds would cause too much disruption. […]

That’s the one for me, and for similar reasons (Shakespeare rather than the bawdy house, but when in Rome …)

‘And who art thou knaves which do present themselves as gentlemen yet hath no letter of com […]

Was it the ‘John’ in the first photo here?

The webcam has been showing the current crossing being mobbed all day.

He’s on the latest Bigmouth podcast too. I’ve just started the book, and so far it looks exactly like he hoped it wouldn’t; a series of potted biographies of the acts. I’m hoping that it picks up or it will be […]

I like to cook to music, and Nick Lowe is a good choice – anything that I can sing along to works, though I’m partial to a bit of opera in the kitchen too.

Ah, I’ve seen it now. Sadly juliet’s important discussion will have to go by the by.

Well, I haven’t seen the request myself (and feel somewhat left out as a consequence) but I did say just real enough.

You have to admire how clever the spammers are to tailor the bait to the market. On FB I occasionally get ‘friend’ request from bikini clad lovelies in their 20s who, lets face it, would be obvious fishing on her […]

And less likely to leave you with a nasty headache.

It’s usually attributed to David Hockney, who was drawing Auden’s portrait.

Kathryn Williams covers Beautiful Cosmos

Reduce that list by one that by ditching VAR.