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I FINALLY know another person who doesn't particularly rate Lebowski! Some of their early stuff is great tho; always loved Raising Arizona. Thought they picked up again with Burn After Reading myself tho.

TRULY appreciated! I'll be having a look at those links; I just hope The Cosh notices these last few comments, otherwise Hearts of Fire has been introduced to this thread for no reason whatsoever!

Slightly different to the trailer I saw, but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQSy643xHcY

saw that on TV years ago - it's a bad, bad movie. Bad. Movie. Bad.

Why has everybody got to see this gold apart from me?

You have no idea how much I want to see that film from the trailer alone! At least once a year I go to IMDB to see if there is a DVD release date yet! Countless times throughout the year tho I just search for the trailer; I'm convinced Dylan has destroyed most copies of this to prevent it from being seen.

Sadly, Dylan is now quite badly arthritic so playing the guitar is extremely painful while plonking a couple of chords on the old (visions of) joanna isn't.
I saw him at the NEC with my parents in 1986 and he was absolute horseshit then again at the SECC five or six years ago and he was pretty damned great, even though it was probably the same tour you mention and pretty piano-centric.

Oooh, 80s Dylan! Even the biggest fans tend to pretend that never happened from what I've noticed! Out of curiosity have you ever seen the trailer for the film he was in back in the 80s- Hearts of Fire? I caught the trailer years back on VHS but there seems to be no record of it online (which is a shame, cos I'd love to see that trailer again!)

The problem with Sonic Youth is one you'll find with any band with such a history and so many offerings; they've done great albums, they've done really average albums and they've done really poor albums. You just have to be careful with what you get, mate.

[Tarantino films]

actually, I was unfair, cos I can appreciate why people don't like Dylan. His voice is ... um ... unique, he can be a cock in interviews, and he never gives the audience what they want live; BUT ... he's a poet, and a bloody genius one.
Saw him at the MEN arena a few years ago and it was shit - I could only tell which of the tiny figures on stage was Bob by the fact that he had a Big Hat. Every song was sung in the same rhythm/melody, so you had to try to grasp a word or phrase to work out what song you were listening to.

My brother is a huge Dylan fan and saw him at the MEN some years back; he said the show was pretty poor but one of his big grumbles was Dylan sat at a piano throughout the whole gig.

Tarantino films....I first saw pulp fiction and thought it was truly brilliant. I have yet to see another of his films I liked. He's great at scenes (opening scene of inglorious was superb) but he just loses the plot when it comes to whole ideas and films in my opinion.
The expendables. I love cheesy 80s action, I love modern action but these are just so dull and self-referential it drives me to distraction. I was bored in the first and the second learned none of the lessons from the first's mistakes and decided to put more stars in smaller roles and make jokes about the films they've been in. hilarious. Mrs likes it though.
I could go on all day, but I won't.

I don't like Pulp Fiction. Never have and reading the whole back-story of it and how ruthless Tarantino was in Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls made me dislike it all the more. As for Expendables, I'm unable to watch it (and its sequel) due to Jason Statham. Absolutely can't stand him. If Danny Dyer of all people was in it I'd probably watch it cos at least I can watch Dyer and laugh at him, but Statham...

Avengers Assemble.

maybe it isn't lamb, maybe pig? Long-pig?

Is that a deliberate mention of an obscure 90s band or did I read that reference in thanks to a hangover?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fdbblQ2HMc&playnext=1&list=PL612BABCB7FAB0B77&feature=results_video
Yes, that is a young Richard Hawley in the pic; he was the lead guitarist.

Haha I'm going to follow the recent trend and ask where the 'like' button is.

The first thing I do now when looking at your new pictures is see how your hands are positioned.
Fu*cking Proudhuff...

Even with the boundary changes he will still have an MP

And now the idea of boundary changes confuses me all the more... I thought the recent argument for it was "We have too many MPs- let's cull!"

He probably won't have an MP if Cameron gets his boundary changes in*!
*If Cameron does, he will be the 3rd Conservative PM to play with the boundaries to make it harder for another party to be elected into power.

The Coalition have made it even easier for people to lose their JSA for upwards of 3 months- say for writing down 19 things you did in search for work one week instead of the agreed 20. That would see you lose your JSA for 3 months and during those three months, you're not classified as being unemployed! During these 3 months you can't apply for a crisis loan for bills, food etc because you are not claiming JSA. Then there are the various training places were the Job Centre pays £1 a week of your JSA and the government funded course pays the rest. Again, during this time, you are not classified as being unemployed.
A friend of mine arranged to start a course that would increase his chances of finding work doing what he enjoyed. He was told when he went to sign-on that he had to start a course the following week. When he explained to his advisor he couldn't because of the course he had arranged to go on himself, he was told he would lose his JSA unless he went to the one the Job Centre told him to go to.
Our Coalition government- always a way to fiddle the statistics and kick those who are already down!