From my old pal Wag, this meme:

(I note the American slant - we don't have prom here and so on - but still fun)

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

( Cut for length and the meme-allergic. )

...sorry about the pun.
No, not really.

Here's an announcement that Ridley Scott is to direct an adaptation of Huxley's 'Brave New World', starring Leo DeCaprio.
http://www.bigpictureradio.com/2008/03/dicaprio-and-ridley-scott-to-join.html

A quote from John Cleese, regarding American Xtianity - from the recent Channel 4 documentary 'The Secret Life of Brian':

"You've got to remember that Christianity in America is mainly about sex. They're so deeply uncomfortable about every aspect of sex that they don't care much about wars or destroying the environment or financial corruption, but anything about sex sets them off - and it's because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health. They are incapable of understanding the teachings."

To quote Mr. Burton;
"The stories are like drugs for children, you know?" Burton said. "It's like, 'Whoa, man.' "

I predict it will have many large vertical stripes.
Might even not suck as bad as Charlie & The Cholocate Factory did.

John Rogers is worth time for many things.

He wrote and produced Global Frequency, which is enough to make hin a demi-god.

He's really funny on a good day, of which he has many.

And today, he's explained the labyrinthine shenanagans involved in selling scripts for TV and movies in a way that is lucid, gives more than enough explanation of the WGA writers strike - and in the comments he cuffs a naive libertarian-Free-Marketeer troll so hard that trollboy's grandchildren will be born rubbing their jaws.

While I'm in an embedding mood, here's the great rant from QT on the gay subtext of Top Gun, from the film Sleep With Me. Best bit of the bloody film.

The latest piece of our TV past to be exhumed and reanimated as a movie is The Sweeney.

The one glimmer of possible sunshine is Jack Regan will be played by Ray Winstone.

(Hey, maybe they'll revive Jason King next. Then have them do a crossover show called Division X...)