Jamie Douglass

…and emic anthropologists shaking their heads and bemoaning the etic approach

Move past "and break things"

move slow and repair things

there's a great quote in Stuart Maconie's "Cider With Roadies" that goes something like: "Van Morrison really means it, Kylie probably doesn't. Who would you rather go canal boating with?"

Frank really, really means it. But I love the music just the same.

it's SUCH a banger. And it stings a bit every time I have to turn it off in the car because the girls are 8, and can cope with the odd profanity, but probably aren't ready for that one *just* yet

hahaha no, I didn't discover Turner till I was in my 40s and happily married. MY first-relationship break up album is Grace; obsessively listening to, and obsessively playing, Lover You Should Have Come Over, over & over again, & twisting my face the way you do when you're damn well not going to cry

I couldn't make mistakes to make a difference any more

The greatest break up album is Tape Deck Heart and I will be taking no further questions at this time.

what, when "Philately Will Get You Nowhere" was right there?

"DUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDE!!!"

*oxbridge don voice* "But it strikes me, Richard - doesn't it strike you? - that the very foundations of our society rest in our understanding of yeast. It really is - ha! - the origins of culture...."

I wouldn't even pretend. I still think lasers are things that go "pew! pew!"

Post-structuralist responses to c.13th lyric poetry, I'm your man.

She was perfectly pleasant, polite and friendly.

It's fair to say we did not see eye to eye on politics.

I once met Anne Coulter and she said it was the best book she had ever read so needless to say I have never read it

Just imagine the world we could have created if someone had gone round putting copies of The Illuminatus Trilogy inside dust jackets of Atlas Shrugged. They're about the same length

yeah, if it was "email job" I'd have had some sympathy, even though THAT describes around 80% of the workforce

I'm reading that as "centre-right economist with slightly myopic vision" and I'll be honest, I know, like, ten of those

the only reason we don't have mass retinal scan entry is that the average age of a facilities manager is 49

Meaning they were 16 when Demolition Man came out

I realise it's partly the shaved-head-and-wire-frame-glasses thing but from certain angles James Carville really does look like Michel Foucault and given I was looking up things by both of them at the same time this has thrown me somewhat

Look, I love a cardigan. I'm wearing one now, in fact. But I'm also no-one's idea of a badman. Notwithstanding nearly half a century of hollywood claiming "properly hard men wear cardigans" it....doesn't really stack up.

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

I mean, since we started this, I have had the nagging thought that if someone said "hahaha Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes" then it would fit right in, and yet....

Thomas Vinterberg's Transformers

M Night Shyamalan's Five On A Treasure Island

George Romero's The Magic Faraway Tree

Luis Buñuel's Winnie-the-Pooh

....just made me snort audibly in the office

Nicolas Winding Refn's Just William

Luc Besson's Last Year At Marienabad

and, indeed, "John Woo's Clueless"