October 2017.

So much good stuff out there...so little time.

I have been really enjoying Athletico Mince, the football related (very loosely) podcast by Bob Mortimer and his friend Andy (who I think is a Talk Sport presenter). It isn't all good but some bits are genuinely, deeply funny. It's often blokeish but it makes me laugh a lot so I don't care.

In music there's a brilliant compilation that has just come out by Sunny and the Sunliners called Mr Brown Eyed Soul. This is a collection of American/Mexican soul music from the '60s and '70s which I heard in a record shop and instantly fell for. I couldn't recommend it more highly. The Twin Peaks, Music From... is great; spooky, detached, very cool. If you saw the latest series (and I gave up after a few) this is all of the music that played in the bar. Very Twin Peaks, very David Lynch. I absolutely love the new Grizzly Bear album, Painted Ruins. At first I thought it was a bit dull but a few listens reveal a really lovely, nuanced, beautifully textured record.

I am not a big television watcher but I really enjoyed Tin Star; part Twin Peaks, part Fortitude, part James Bond (but Tim Roth is harder than Daniel Craig).