Sure many of you have seen this but I'm on my 10th view and it's still wonderful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15643295.stm

I've said it before: FIFA, desert island, hungry lions.

I saw this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/04/nobel-prize-odds-bob-dylan

and thought what a grand idea.

Who knew that Albert Hammond's was the original version? And it's better than the Hollies cover.

Any other originals that you didn't know about?

http://open.spotify.com/track/4qOmiimTFg3w1EfK9cKSTF

An early New Year's message/gift from our favourite football recluse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/31/wayne-rooney-manchester-u...

Blake Edwards, film director and Julie Andrews's husband has died. Whilst his Breakfast at Tiffanys was Audrey Hepburn at her most radiant, I will remember him for providing me with Peter Sellers on a Sunday afternoon being silly in the Pink Panther movies, the first few being sublime and the last couple excessive but still hilarious in parts.

These outtakes make me giggle and especially infectious is Edwards's cackling in the background. And he snaffled Julie Andrews.

Can you imagine England ever achieving what Spain have done this summer? World Cup, Wimbledon and Tour de France. And not content with that, this is how good their under 19 footballers are:

Despite the syrupy music, I defy anyone not to be moved by this vid of a man doing the iron man with his disabled son.

Very sad to hear that another of the great Beeb sports commentators, rugby union's Bill McLaren has gone.
Here he is at his best..."flits like a little phantom"

Over at the rather self-conscious Pitchfork (which I note that Google describes as "advertising for agriculture, farming, livestock, exotic animals, equine and western art, all horse breeds and all cattle breeds")..
..they have gathered together their rather self-conscious best 500 songs of the decade.

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/

I was upset at no Eels songs but each to his own.

Any other notable omissions?

I know that this has been selectively cut but it still made me laugh cheaply.

I'd like to jack in the job, pack up the car, drive to the mountains and do this..

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/08/05

The next British Winter Olympics Team could probably do with some of this luck:

Watching the Cohen brothers's brilliant "Miller's Crossing" last night and it occurred to me that you never know what you are going to get with them. One film it's the appalling "Ladykillers", the next one the superb "No Country for Old Men". Same with the genius of "The Big Lebowski" followed by the close-to-unwatchable "O Brother..".

Some have purple patches (e.g. Van Morrison in late 60s-early 70s) but who are the other artists who have the same maddening unpredictability? - Neil Young would seem to be one.
Excuse me if the subject barrel is being well and truly scraped and cleaned.

Currently steaming through this extraordinary series from 2003 which seems to have been a breeding ground for every fashionable British actor.

John Simm
David Morrissey
Kelly Macdonald
Bill Nighy
Philip Glenister
James McAvoy
Mark Warren

It is so well written that I can't believe I missed it first time.

Can the Massive suggest any other landmark British productions in recent years that I may have missed or have we all been too busy SopranoWiring?