By the time I got to the front of the queue the cheapest SOAD tickets left were £142 each at the back of the stadium. I'll take my chances on the general sale or keep my money, ta.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Highest 2 Lowest is a stressful watch, not least because everything and everyone is so carefully choreographed that even people you're meant to trust seem dodgy as fuck at points. I'm glad we've got Spike Lee but he drives me mad sometimes.

The extra attention and smiles you get from the staff when you're having dinner alone confound me sometimes. Mate, I'm ordering a pizza and reading a book about cults. This is my best life.

If ever there was a time for AEW to stoop to WWE's level for counter-programming, it's to outdraw a Saudi WrestleMania. Do a stadium show in a city the fans can actually visit, have the whole indie weekender around. You know Tony's petty enough.

I’ve said it before and will doubtless say it again: I love that Hangman insists on always calling his title the MEN’S World Title. It immediately puts the women’s version on the same level. It would be great if the company as a whole followed suit.

I swear. It's important for accessibility anyway, but I personally want a transcript for your video so I don't have to watch the fucking video.

Today was the worst day of my career- so bad that George @puropodcast.bsky.social finally let me show him Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. "Well, I was never bored."

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Hurrah for managing to get the cheap seats for Manchester Dynamite before they all got sold out from under me. I'm too old for this Ticketmaster stress bollocks.

A really interesting conversation, even if I have a different take on Soul Music. What sticks with me is how Pratchett describes the feeling of hearing and making music, the euphoria of a truly great gig, better than anyone - but I think this ep gets to the heart of some issues I readily forgave.

It's new episode time! Dermot Byrne returns to talk about the 16th Discworld novel, Soul Music. We discuss dated references, groanworthy puns, and Pratchett’s takes on education. Spotify bit.ly/4mHrhWh Amazon bit.ly/3UTRTHb Apple bit.ly/3I0vyVs

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

If you can get to Bradford, I highly recommend checking out the Science + Media Museum's cracking new Sound and Vision galleries. From the Lumières to VR via stop-motion and an actual Xenomorph, it's a great primer on cinema history. And then you go downstairs and the cinema is always lovely too.

I needed to get this out of my brain so badly that I resurrected a near-dead website to publish it. Basically, Athena should have beaten Toni. imaintainthedoublefootstompissilly.com/the-art-of-e...

CMLL, AEW, think about it: Wheeler Yuta working a Team Rocket gimmick.

I wrote something tonight. Haven't written anything in ages (like, possibly years)! Thanks for pissing me off, AEW.

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

Last year when I got back from AEW weekend, I dumped my bags and went straight up to Tesco for my grandad's shopping. I never got to give it to him. He passed away the next morning. A year is a long time. A year is nothing. But good friends and good times make the world of difference.

I've been training for two decades and finally, I got to yell the words to Metalingus at The Rated R Superstar, Cope, and his old friend the Father of the Year. Wrestling is mad.

Last night's EVE show was cracking. The right mixture of silly and intense with surprise Bozilla, a hoss fight main event and minimal Ospreay. Rhio is #1 contender to the champion Nyla Rose, and that match will fucking rule.

Clapham *erupted* tonight when Scotty 2 Hotty rocked up to tag with his son at Riot Cabaret. What a gloriously silly, fun show that was- and I am HEAVILY invested in finding out who shot Tate Mayfairs (no, seriously).

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!

Champion of champions.

Two of the best promos of the best five years have been pregnancy announcements. I genuinely hope Naomi turns up and cuts promos with a baby on her back.

All ticketing websites are extended living nightmares, but I am now in possession of a My Chemical Romance ticket. 🏴

The lines between AEW and NJPW are so thin and blurry now that they've weakened the entire concept of the Forbidden Door, which was flimsy to start with. Nobody looking at that Lights Out match would ever think it was a dream match you could only see on this show.

EVE and RevPro being at opposite sides of London on Forbidden Door Saturday probably speaks to a history of sneaky promoter shenanigans, but it makes it a bugger to all get to the same pub.

Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)

the point of this isn't that historians or archivists can be automated, the point is its a shopping list for governments and industries making cuts that will then have to buy AI services to inadequately fill the gap

I can't believe I'm talking about a new Fantastic Four film in 2025, but I actually mostly liked it. The Jetsons-lite aesthetic works, but it also feels like it's been cut to ribbons despite still being 2 hours long. Galactus is just hard to do on screen I guess.

Every woman in town: light summer dress, floating down the street on their way to a cocktail by the riverside Me: black t-shirt, slightly sweaty, trudging up the road to the Funeral for a Friend gig and remembering I haven't done my Duolingo

Do you think it's in the divorce terms that once a year Stephanie McMahon must be allowed to come back and take credit for the entirety of women's wrestling?

All the people you could have on play-by-play for the biggest match of the weekend and the BBC really can't do better than Andrew Castle? #Wimbledon

Of all the songs we lost from the indies when people got signed, this is still the one I miss the most. You knew Swerve was a star the minute that suave bastard came out swaying to it. Ain't Nobody and Metalingus were the first two tracks on my 'Banger wrestling themes' playlist.

I have to wait until George gets home tomorrow night to watch Y'All In and you expect me *not* to walk around grinning and give the game away?

Lovely summer's evening in two different dark rooms: an early performance of Six and a late screening of Hearts of Darkness. All thoughts are welcome on any common themes between being married to Henry VIII and working with Brando on Apocalypse Now.

In Dogma, Kevin Smith reveals that God is Alanis Morissette. He is correct.

Only a lean hour of delays and I'm in Glasgow to see the almighty Alanis. Sure, you've got an extortionate bar down there Villa Park, but have you got...

Lords and Ladies is a book I love with my soul. It's hard to summarise why it works so well, but this episode dives into everything from Pratchett's riff on Tolkien's Elves to the many lives of Granny Weatherwax and some very, very silly humour. Loved it.

There's not much from Glasto that has grabbed me so far (because I'm seeing Alanis next week!) but thought I'd catch a bit of Biffy's set. Please tell me the sound seems a bit better for the people who paid hundreds for this.

I spent a good 30 seconds looking at this photo trying to figure out how this can possibly be the owner of the NWA

AI told me to avoid burnout today and I swear I nearly smashed up my monitor.

Having done a marathon of Days and Weeks before walking into 28 Years Later, the one thing I was not expecting to do was cry in the final act. The tone is all over the place and I'd have liked the infected to actually have an impact on the last third, but emotionally it really worked for me.

Ballerina is not as good as a John Wick film, largely because it looks worse, because it's a Len Wiseman film. That said, I had a hell of a good time watching Ana De Armas find increasingly silly ways to kill folk.

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

How are you supposed to experience a Nine Inch Nails arena show and just go back to living your life?

My take on the entire Mission Impossible franchise right now is JUSTICE FOR ILSA FAUST

Berlin recommendations, please. Ideally the less obvious stuff, but bonus points for whoever can tell me where to get the best currywurst.

I demand season 3 of The Last Of Us immediately.