The recent remake of unremakeable The Rise And Fall Of Reginald Perrin was actually quite funny.

Wacko Jacko was not a musical genius. Smokie did more great songs than he did.

Why does Mrs Zero always maoan 'Oh Christ' when I suggest watching 'Where Eagles Dare'?

I once came in Olivia Newton-John's face.

So - are zombies always going to be fast-moving now, or will they get re-re-imagined ?

Old 1970s & 1980s bands reforming is always crap except when Magazine do it.

30 Rock is fucking brilliant.

I am quite liking the whole Iron Man 2 Mickey Rourke as Whiplash thing. Even though Rourke's a proven tosser and superhero movies always fuck up the villains.

Watched The Spirit yesterday, as some light relief after the depressing four and a half hour Wimbledon final. What an absolute pile of shit, there's 125 minutes I'll never get back. Scarlett Johansson in Nazi gear did not help, which just goes to show how bad this film is.

Go Andy

Andy Roddick, that is. Not that Scottish chap.

Farrah Fawcett

A few words about Farrah. Farrah Fawcett-Majors as she still is in my head. She wasn't my favourite Charlie's Angel, not even my second favourite, but she still made some cool B movies and TV movies that're worth 90 minutes of anybody's time.

Logan's Run, Sunburn, Red Light Sting and Small Sacrifices to name but a few. And she did a good quasi-lesbian scene with Raquel Welch in Myra Breckinridge.

If she had died 24 hours earlier there would have been a lot more attention. RIP to a true Hair De Force.

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

Stefanie Powers & Noel 'Windmills Of Your Mind' Harrison. They Rock. Even though they didn't even spell her name right on the book covers.

Lee Marvin

No particular reason for posting this, it's just a great picture from one of my favourite films, The Killers (1964).

Shit Imminent

For those of you with a taste for witty, edgy, hard-boiled writing, I've just posted Shit Imminent, a little diary thing that I wrote a while ago.
Thanks to Geoff R for sending me a bunch of pictures from the event which will indeed be added as soon as I've sorted them out.

Richard Matheson

Smokin'

An extremely unusual occurance for me, I went out drinking last night. Drank lots of pints of lager with fellow television Ex-Pat Dave P. Got pasted to the point of mild hysteria. Talked an awful lot of shit, as one might expect. But around the 23.30 mark the landlord closed all the curtains and put an ashtray on our table. I honestly can't remember being so happy. We chain-smoked our tits off.
Fucking Hell, my first Smoke-In.

Susan Storm

Talking of Susan Storm (well, I was anyway) - here she is with a big, fuck-off shotgun and a rather fetching polar-neck.

Books

God bless the new charity shop in Barnstaple for actually having some books in it. Boxes and boxes of them...it's Fucking Heaven. Not a Catherine Cookson in sight. I'm going straight back there as soon as I return from London (where I'm suffering...really...but I won't go into it) as apparently they've got a whole houseful of paperbacks to clear. And there selling them at proper charity shop prices. Fuck Oxfam and their £2.49ness.

Russian Submarine

Some fabulous pictures of the Russkie sub in San Diego from Mark Webb.

Zoltan : Hound Of Dracula