Tipping my hat to the subtitles author on The New Avengers blu-ray.

This week's present to myself. #TheNewAvengers - the proper ones, of course.

Thing 2: Electric Boogaloo

Darts without Den Hegarty Like Marillion without Fish #totp

Almost supernaturally awful #totp

Millennium knows without the You Only Live Twice sample*, it's nothing. #totp *Bittersweet Symphony all over again.

Norman Wisdom, now with added cocaine #totp

Like looking at five options for the blandest Doctor Who reboot possible. #totp

Hearing a Nathan Barley type explain why these dancers are "ironic, except they're not, except they are" #totp

Vivid memories of seeing this as a child and just being terrified. Still find it sinister today.

If I was not already excited to see the DAM tour when it reaches London, then this interview just tipped me over the edge! 👍

1. Vertigo 2. Frenzy 3. Psycho

Proto Robbie Williams #totp

The Norman Wisdom of pop! #totp

Tap Dancer from Stoke #totp

The Man Corr #totp

I hate to be the 'actually' guy, but actually Christopher Fowler wrote it - www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...

Off the back of this episode am rewatching the series on ITVX. Straight out the gate every cast member is at the top of their game. Don Warrington tho is absolutely magisterial.

Waiting in the virtual queue for Bowie V&A tickets. If I shake my screen will that make this person get a shift on?

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

This afternoon's viewing: the recent Wes Anderson film. So essentially every Wes Anderson film.

One of my favourite memories: seeing this film with my Dad, New Year’s Day 1979, at the ABC Bristol Road, Birmingham. He still quotes “You’ve got me? Who’s got you?!” now as his favourite line in cinema.

Walked past Christopher Biggins at Birmingham New Street station. He was leaving. I was arriving.

Jim Davidson wanks himself blue to this every weekend. #totp

A real "needless to say I had the last laugh" vibe about this #totp

Ken Russell: the Barry Letts Years #totp

#PSB performing like they also know that this will be the song of the night #totp

Simon Pegg on vocals. Grant Morrison on drums. #totp

Always leave the communal kitchens and other shared spaces use at work clean and tidy. Don't expect others to be picking up after you.

The year is 2040. A deceased Jeff Bridges brought to life via AI stars this summer in "Tron: Requiem" scored by The Prodigy. Nobody sees it. The year is 2055. A 3D printed robot Jeff Bridges stars this summer in "Tron: NEXUS" scored by a 10-year old TikToker from Argentina. Nobody sees it.

This is sad news. FTS has always been a good read (and a good podcast before that)

At a screening of Frenzy. There are some chatty younger people nearby. They have never seen the film but are assuming it is just "your average Hitchcock film"

"They didn't use BCC"

Proto Pitbull #totp

"We've both given up smoking, Because its fatal. So whose matches are those?" Peak PSB lyric #TOTP

Off to see #Kraftwerk next June - suspect it will be like watching traffic lights from eight miles away but I am deliriously excited.

Robert Jenrick believes Paul Nicholas' back catalogue was culturally appropriated by Bob Marley.

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

That more isn't known about these adds to their mystery. youtu.be/jNwQ0w_EiD4?...

A Fistful of Bollocks

This evening's preview was #ISwear Further proof, should it be needed, that Shirley Henderson is one of the finest actors working today. Absolute force of nature.

An American Werewolf in London Blazing Saddles Taxi Driver Demons

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

I will have an essay, or maybe a spec script, in Issue Four, if enough people pre-order Issue Four, so if you would like to support me and my work as well as Iain and HIS work this is a very easy way to do two good things at once

Post something random, or you will have an AWFUL October!