Terrible Screenplay Ideas and Other Nonsense

I went in knowing literally nothing about it, solely that the title was hilarious: "Nirvana: The Band - The Show - The Movie" is a technical marvel, a slice of post-modern outsider punk art putting mockumentary, riff track, internet show, prank show, real footage, and secret movie genre into a blender and hitting "puree" for glorious, delicious, creative results. It is a funny, charming, absolutely bonkers ode to the DIY era of movie making, the 2008 internet video era, and friendship. I was pissing myself with laughter.

Free of hyperbole, with 100% sincerty: "Jackass: Best & Last" has my favourite opening credits sequence of a movie in recent memory, and easily the best of the series, and the film was never going to match it. Genuinely fantastic, funny, creative, mad and somehow also paying tribute to its cast members' various escapades with non-intrusive Easter eggs. Just a phenomenal introduction

Seeing Sparks perform "Angst in My Pants" live changed my life.

Big fan of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" (one of my all time favourite songs) appearing in the finale of "Supergirl", even as a cover, hitting me for six. If it gets one kid into Jimmy Eat World, then that's wonderful. Common Craig Gillespie soundtrack Win. Remember: "Don't you worry what they tell themselves, when you're away. It just takes some time little girl, in the middle of the ride... everything will be just fine, everything, everything will be alright"

"Supergirl" is good fun. The script is ropey, and needed a little longer to cook, but the themes are there, the skeleton of ideas is solid, and I like the setting (space bus driver, wooh!). Alcock is a fucking excellent Supergirl, especially when she gets to go Dragonball Z in the finale, and weirdly David Krumholtz adds a lot of depth and pathos to his scenes (I've been in the game too long to see the love interest from "Addams Family Values" grow old enough to play "dad" characters...). Villain sucks ass but is functional.

Cinema closed due to the heat wave (!), so I cannot watch "Jackass 5" today. My partner will be showing me their DVD of "Venom 3" instead.

I finally saw my last "Must See" band last night: Garbage. Utterly magnificent. A glorious band, immaculately put together, letting loose and having fun with their older tunes whilst relishing the newer ones (I have never felt more vindicated than by how much Shirley Manson adores performing "Have We Met? (The Void)" - an impeccable tune from their latest album). I was mere feet away from Steve Marker (dressed like an electrician who had just finished shift, and sporting a beard as magnificent as his riffs and tunes) and he was loving life as much as me. Butch Vig looks like a grandpa on the drums now, and kept trying to hide his grins every time he nailed a beat or tune of his own; and Duke Erikson is the only one who has not aged because he was always looking exactly the same. I've now seen the last band on my "to see before I die" list, and I'm happy.

Gus: "You can never have too many shelves." Shawn: "You literally can." Gus: "No, Shawn, shelving units are a measure of presentability, respectability and, in certain cultures, virility." Shawn: "Which ones?" Gus: "Many of them!" Shawn: "Well, you need to change cultures, because I need to put up this signed photograph of Emilio Estevez." Gus: "I will do no such thing, Shawn, I've been calibrating the brackets of these shelves for months! And I need somewhere to store my collection of beans." Shawn: "Alphabetically or by genus?" Gus: "You wouldn't tell the difference Shawn! Besides, genus is-" Shawn: "I literally could because you're my best friend." Gus: "YOU ATE THREE OF THEM!" Shawn: "YOU ATE FIVE!" Gus: "THEY'RE MY BABIES SHAWN! LET ME CANNIBALIZE!"

The best channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ

I can confirm that "A Walk Down Memory Lane" is so much fucking better live, holy shit it works.

There was a lot to adore at the two Sparks concerts in London and Glasgow: 1. Russell Mael's polka dot suit, pink shirt and pink trainers (I kind of want to get married in this) 2. Trolling even the hardcore fanbase by pulling out almost nothing but deep cuts and B-sides. 3. Opening with the Royal Chelsea Hospital Choir and a pumping house DJ for the Glasgow night: two such left-field choices they have to belong to Sparks. 4. They performed tracks from my favourite album, but not the titular one, instead being 2 deep cuts they NEVER perform ("Sherlock Holmes" and "Mickey Mouse") 5. The Goth girl dancing all the way through, not giving a fuck what anyone thought. 6. The sheer queer and trans joy of the event. 7. The young person who came dressed as the front cover of "Angst in My Pants", complete with red outfit and a teddy bear dressed as Ron the Bride: they were on the front row, and Russell acknowledged them, subsequently they melted with glee. 8. The Kelvingrove is a stunning venue, and it didn't rain! 9. SPARKS! 10. I almost forgot: I wish I enjoyed anything as much as their guitarist Eli Pearl enjoyed being there

Original fiction done for now, time to work on two DC pieces ("Young Justice 2" and "Hawk and Dove" - Hawk sports a mullet) and my two other originals