Apr 3rd – All the people, so many people, and none of them can read or write; and that’s why we’re all, cult-urally impoverished.

I just love the endlessly repeated, tautological redundancy of the dialogue.

24th Mar – I had strings, but now I’m free. There are no strings on me.

But since that day when his words were first uttered, I’ve tracked his prediction from what was once a faraway speck on a distant horizon, to what it is today, an event horizon on a looming black hole.

3rd Mar – What price you have to pay to get out of, going through all these things twice.

Sad songs are all about evoking regret, and death by your own hand, is perhaps the first positive thing you have ever done with your life, so I think I’d go out to a Genesis track, or Bruce Springsteen, or something even worse, so that you had no regrets about leaving the earth and all its mediocrities.

Watched films of 2023-24, part I.

Emerald Fennell whose name will always be attached to this monumentally embarrassing mistake of a project, is a person of wealth. Unfortunately though, not of taste. Both Jade and Emerald, seem somehow envious of the work of great writers and film makers, and have attempted to mirror their brilliance. The result, in both cases, comes over as no better than the vanity projects of well-funded, wannabee, amateurs.

The Taste of Things to come, is just the way it always was.

It should be watched while reclining on deep velvet cushions, alongside someone with whom you have shared all the very best things in life. Either that or from a bath of warm crème anglaise.

18th Feb – It’s a shame, shame, shame, shame, shame on you.

... where a life littered with wrong choices at the wrong time, becomes a self-recriminating Hadron Collider of mental anguish, constantly circulating negative thoughts at neural speed.

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Come friendly bombs and fall on St George’s Park! It isn’t fit for humans now – the case for half-penalties.

Ruinous in the sense that the game, in all its important moments, has been taken over by book-learnt, plodding, computer assisted pedantry, that is the ONLY skill that these natural-born bureaucrats bring to the game.

Feb 2nd – One man’s civilization is another man’s jungle, yeah.

Now all we have to do, is create a movement, and go viral.

There’s no soothing balm to make Saltburn better.

If three monkeys were left alone with single typewriter, between them they’d have produced the script of Saltburn within a week.