"Someone filled the whole Dunstable opera season with nothing but Wagner in rhyming slang Constable? No no I was playing the Theremin."

Today's in car CD listening was Grade's Under The Radar - a nice bit of raspy post-hardcore and Glasseater's self titled album, which is an ok piece of Thrice-lite rock, opens with the best track, Medicine and then all much of a muchness from there. #Themoreuknow

Wrapping up the weekend with another watch of that riot of a picture, Total Recall in all it's low key minimalist scientifically accurate glory.

Friends suspect he's watching The Day of the Jackal again. An opening sequence second only to Tinker, Tailor episode 1.

Even with this inexplicable Saints collapse this has been a proper derby game humdinger, proper back and forth rugby #gallagherprem

I don't know what this analyst for the rugby on TNT is being paid but apparently it's far from ideal for Leicester that they keep failing to score and you just can't buy insight like that.

Watching gritty butch hard sci-fi in Flash Gordon and if every a band completely understood the assignment for a soundtrack bang on it's Queen, both here and Highlander.

Watching Sleepy Hollow for Halloween month purposes and the gothy feel is well nailed down. Beginning though to suspect Christopher Lee did so many of these movies pre LOTR to get out of having to do dictionary corner on Countdown due to his blood feud with Richard Stilgoe.

Watching Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail and again full of very sensible serious academics and that ilk all taking the stories of the Grail with utter acceptance.

Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, 1940.

What's this 'marry me chicken' nonsense that's going round all of a sudden? What's next 'sue me for medical malpractice mutton?' 'Cop a feel behind the bikesheds lamb bhuna'?

Haunted House vibes but it's just you being judged by an owl who's not angry, just disappointed.

Finishing up the weekend with the 90s-tastic action thrills of The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Watching the Guy Ritchie King Arthur film as it mounts its recovery from David Beckham's cameo and what a silly inexplicably wonderful thing it is, like covering a shark in custard.

TV series idea, an update to Robert Hughes's classic about modern art, but this time covering the hosiery of reckless monkeys. That's,The Sock of The Baboon' coming to BBC4 this Christmas.

Watching Robert Hughes's documentary on Goya on the youtubes and again god he was so good at this act critic lark, also helps Goya was fantastic.

Was listening to End on End by Rites of Spring and fucking hell in musical terms it's like Prometheus coming down off Olympus and saying "'Ere lads, got this fire lark, where do you want it?" I mean, one LP and one EP and essentially being "bang that's emo invented and perfected"

Watching The Fifth Element and struck by the thought that actually yes, Hugh Gaitskell would have rather enjoyed it.

2000s popular fashion involved a lot of very shiny mens shirts huh #totp

An absolutely diabolical episode thus far #totp