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This: http://www.dazeddigital.com/blog/article/16012/1/anti-yuppie-brigades Although if you want the version in which the intro (and context) wasn't inexplicably cut by my editor, this one's much better IMO: http://lewisgparker.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/straw-clutchers/

They are money-grabbing scum worse than the Daily Mail. I should know, I had the displeasure of working for them once, and that almost ended in court when they tried to turn my byline into a hit-piece against me and then duck out of our expenses agreement. Besides my personal gripes, what irks...

Bob le Flambeur by JP Melville. Inspired by American film noir, it sets the stylistic template for the new wave. Like Le Cercle Rouge which started this thread, it's an impeccable piece of film-making from Melville with perfect cinematography, locations, performances, and script. Interesting...

If anyone's interested in an American lit professor's account, written in a kind of Pynchonian parody style, of randomly bumping into Thomas Pynchon and having conversations with him, this is probably what you're looking for: http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/adventures.html The dude comes...

What's full of damaged people, the restaurant or the food?

The best curries are probably outside London. The Golden Mile in Leicester, for instance, is meant to be excellent. It's an Indian/Bangladeshi mile of shops and restaurants in Leicester. Ashamed to say, when I lived in Leicester, I never ventured there. Maybe something to do with all the white...

The dude who made Primer has got a new film coming out. It debuted at Sundance, and will be playing at the O2 when Sundance comes to London. It's called Upstream Color.

Sundarbon, a family-owned Bangladeshi joint in Selly Oak, Birmingham. You can indeed bring your own booze, I believe. Girls Aloud used to go there, which is advertised rather prominently in the window. But don't let that put you off, it adds to the greatness.

Yeah my friend really rates Edmund's, but also says it's patchy. I really enjoyed the Hix Oyster and Chophouse in Farringdon. I'd probably go for that, the only thing being the set menu on the website only shows two options. Are there more on the set menu or is it cheap for that reason?

Help, I need somewhere decent around Soho/central London for tomorrow night (Saturday) to take my parents. The only thing I can think of at the moment is Mark Hix but that's a bit too expensive. Somewhere like that but not quite as toppy would be perfect... Cheers!

Also, I think Rand Paul's filibuster and the reaction to it shows just how lacking today's politicians are compared with the principled, potty-mouthed titans of yesteryear. In the history of filibusters, 13 hours is so weak. The whole point of a filibuster is that you clog up the Senate for days...

Interesting to see that Rand Paul's filibuster of Brennan for head of CIA is said to have placed him in contention for the 2016 Republican nomination. I'd have to say that while I find Rand Paul to be a less principled, more cynical bandwagon jumper than Ron Paul, this kind of makes sense. The...

No. Cloud Atlas is a kernel of Weetabix on my breakfast table compared with Vollmann's heavenly feast. There is no way the two could possibly be connected. I refuse to accept that anyone who has ever read Vollmann could ever produce such drivel. No problem, I'm sure you'll love it. Or, any one...

Plenty. He's a madly prolific California author who writes dense, yet very personal and moving accounts of his time usually with prostitutes, drug dealers and various down-on-their-luck people all over the world. The Atlas is structured like a Pallindrome, in that the first story reflects a...

Thankfully I've never had to live with the genius tag, nor will I. What I find heartening about Pynchon's early work is also what scares me slightly. He went from merely quite good to frickin amazingly outrageously brilliant in a matter of like two or three years. Of course, studying under...

It was a corker. I wish one of my volleys would go in one of these days.

Besides the first half of the Crying of Lot 49, which is just about as perfect as a piece of fiction could ever be, my favourite Pynchon is the introductory essay to Slow Learner, his collection of early stories published in the 80s (I think). It's very sweet and self-deprecating, and even...

Speaking of which, there's a 3D Dial M For Murder being showed at the Berlinale right now. Hopefully it will get a release in the UK.

That's two punches I owe you now.

Are the credit ratings agencies who audit countries the same ones who keep tabs on our own personal credit ratings? Either way, they're fucking cunts. The idea that someone can have a bad credit rating because they've never borrowed money is totally ludicrous, and they know it. They're in...