It's amazing how far you could get on the American dollar back in 1942: 'Feckless' WWII schoolgirls with 'lax morals' caused concern in government by skipping school, soliciting GIs - and catching venereal disease, papers show. Letters at the National Archives in Kew show much "trouble" was caused by the girls in the West End of London. For shame old granny Londonist! Wasn't there enough British spunk around or was it just a case......

Foremost there was Spinal Tap - the good natured and fucking hilarious jab at rock's pomp and general ridiculousness that probably inspired as many bands as it took the piss out of. Better yet it ensured that anything of value was thereafter always turned up to 11. Actually predating the Tap by a year was The Comic Strip mob with their own version of something very metal in the form of Bad News. Vim......

Drop a stone over the edge of the Internets and odds are it'll hit about a hundred horrible movie sites for every good one and around five thousand unreadable blogs so being given the opportunity to point a few more (thousand) people at some of my faves is just too good an opportunity to pass up. Let's get the shameless self promotion out of the way - or try and sidestep it at least......