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All the Bond stuff today reminded me I had a job interview at EON productions some time around 2000. It was very posh and they had Oddjob's hat on the desk.

Broadsword calling Danny Boy - Absolutely delighted to present the new episode of Writers on Film with GEOFF DYER talking Stalker and Where Eagles Dare open.spotify.com/episode/6NsD...

My brother seems to have nabbed one of these for a quid or two. The git

Torvalds and Jansson and Pukki and Valo Häkkinen, Räikkönen, Vänskä and Salo Lordi, Sibelius, Renny Harlin: These are a few of my favourite Finns

Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King I got forty red white and blue shoestrings And a thousand telephones that don’t ring Do you know where I can get rid of these things? Cos where it all comes from is a mystery It's like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea

Barbarella has a bit of Seurat, Solaris has Bruegel - what other paintings (originals or reproductions) in spaceships in films are there?

Made a fish

popped into Two Temple Place, William Waldorf Astor's neo-gothic office just off the embankment. Free entry. Come for the wood and stained glass, stay for the art exhibition on working class British life (not shown)