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I'm an analogue reader. Sometimes I don't even realise what I have understood.

[Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death]

I also kind of enjoyed Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death, although it's been a lot of years since I saw it.

I remember that one being quite fun but my idiotic flatmates wouldn't let me rent The Invincible Pole Fighters the following week and used that as the reason.

Toxic Avenger is great.

Pretty sure I still have an old VHS copy of Surf Nazis Must Die somewhere. It was pretty disappointing, but I did like the Samurai Surfers.

Probably doesn't quite fit into this thread, but there isn't one for "What wordless DIY social history projects are you into just now?" so it'll have to do: Lament for the Glasgow High Rise.

[Rogue Legacy]

Well I'm still hanging in with Rogue Legacy and can confirm that I now survive a whole 30 mins. Beat the 1st and 2nd boss at the weekend and am gearing up to take out the 3rd. It explains nowt at the start so now Ive worked out how armour and skills work it should be a breeze 

Not sure what is that's wrong in my brain that makes me think: "Oh, another game that Satanist says is really hard and annoying. I better buy that then, eh?"

Can manage 5 minutes or so at best. Haven't managed to beat any of the bosses yet. Can easily spend three hours playing about fifty times.

I also started playing Fallout 3 about a week or so ago and I'm really enjoying it. Quite slow paced at first but very atmospheric. For some reason, the vibe of exploring burnt out towns and abandoned power stations appeals a lot more than the fantasy equivalent and spending a whole Sunday travelling back and forth with burned books and rusty tin cans seems almost therapeutic.

I'm already realising that I could've built myself up a lot more easily at the start by properly clearing out the first town you find  and there are clearly more than enough choices for a few different playthroughs.

[Buffy]

The thing that really clicked for me this time through was Buffy and Spike's relationship, which by the end seemed genuinely plausible and complex, and actually gave both characters a very welcome depth.

If the old insomnia's playing up you can try and track back through this thread for my changing thoughts on that. I didn't like it at all at first, but it gradually makes sense in parts although ultimate does seem partly about setting him up for the ultimate sacrifice. I was also surprised about the relatively small role of Caleb in it.

Despite a relatively weak last series and as much as I love The Wire and whatnot, there's never going to be a better series than Buffy, is there?

[John Wick]

John Wick. After seeing The Raid redefine action cinema, I was curious to see what the next big thing after it would be. And here it is. With it's long tracking shots of the action and the music building as a fight scene progresses, the influence of The Raid is clear.
However this is its own beast. Brilliant and exhilarating.

This reminded that I still hadn't got off my arse to see John Wick, so I sorted that out last night and it was a real joy. You mentioned the tension building lead ins to the action scenes. I particularly liked the way that that we spend long enough tracking round each location (particularly the first two: the house and the nightclub) that, when the hammer drops we already have a real sense of the environment and everything that follows makes perfect sense.

I'd mistakenly thought Reeves directed this. Not that important but putting this alongside Man of Tai Chi, it's clear that he has a penchant for asskicking Asian cinema and an understanding of what makes it work.

Here's to much more of this sort of thing. A few weeks ago, Keanu turned in a different sort of performance at the opening of a new Gauguin exhibition just down the road. Sadly it was sold out, but you can see him reading from Gauguin's malarial fever diaries on youTube. Needs more headshots and neckbreaks in my view.

It really grinds my gears when a load of people have been talking a lot of gear-grinding shit about cycling and cyclists and I really want to write a big long rant but when I finally sit down I feel the rage has dissipated and I can't be bothered. That gets my goat every time.

Highlights: bits about red lights and pavements are correct, everything else is nonsense; I always forget that other people are scared to ride on British roads; I've been a fat guy in lycra since I was fifteen so you can all go and fuck yourselves; anyone who drives a motor vehicle more than once every six months is a homicidal maniac at best.

Please remember in mind most people here are of the goth type era and i'm sure their where plenty of people (Jim?) must have been ridiculed by the previous generation for trying to hard to be "cool". Each generation has it's thing.

It's really interesting the little nuances that get lost between generations. Goths were never cool (I was almost one but didn't have the balls) and the biggest problem with the idea of "hipster" as anything other than a pejorative term for "young men with (or possibly without) silly beards" is that it's an amorphous, external label rather than a self-identifying emblem.

Oh what can it be? 
https://www.facebook.com/2000AD/posts/10152656053461366:0

Intriguing. As I just posted on FB: "Interesting. That's definitely the prow of the Cradle of Filth from Red Seas. Maybe an epilogue or something?"

I imagine postage costs are more than offset by whatever percentage of the cover price WH Smiths take.

So are the Anderson files separate from the ccf?

Yes. Somebody will be along shortly to whinge about the minor flaws in this description but, basically it goes like this:
Dredd Case Files: All stories published as Judge Dredd in 2000AD and the Megazine.
Restricted Files: All stories published as Judge Dredd in annuals, specials and any other official publications.
Anderson Psi Files: All stories published as Judge Anderson (and Judge Corey) in all official publications.
Others: stories set in Dredd's world, often heavily featuring Dredd or characters spun out of the main strip, but published under their own title, For example: America, The Taxidermist, The Dead Man.

And what is it with football fans? Why do they all have to wear the same top as Messi when they could get a plain Umbro one for a fifth of the price, eh?

Are we still arguing over the best cover version, when we all know it is Husker Du's cover of Love is all around (theme from the Mary Tyler Moore Show)

Hardly. It's not even Husker Du's best cover: Eight Miles High.

Pity German lager tastes like piss though.

It really doesn't.