Have just started reading Martin Amis' collection of reviews and essays entitled The War Against Cliche and it is frickin exceptional. I am highly recommending it to anyone who feels like reading something. And even though it's completely smart and cool, and intelligently treats a variety of subject matter over about a 30 year period, it's still not heavy-going or anything because it's a collection of magazine pieces and stuff, so it's like reading a 490-page magazine but coming out smarter at the end of it. Yay. I love it when things are easy and enjoyable and thrilling. Oh yeah, and improve the mind too. Maybe. But golly this Amis boy can write and he makes the most perfect comments about stuff. I am completely within his thrall and treat everything he says with credulity. Another recommended thing is to go to the Astor, even though we all know that already. Anyway, saw a double bill of City of the Lost Children and Delicatessan there last night. Seriously cool.