With a couple of full-on days in the office putting Skin Deep 190 to bed (more on that in a week or so) and what seemed like a lifetime sitting on the M54, M1, M25 and A2 wondering just what the hell they’re doing out there, it’s back to normal. I use the term loosely.

This evening, I went to check out the Runaways movie – imaginatively titled The Runaways. Does it do justice to a band that kept me company for a fraction of my teenage years? I think so. The characterisation is excellent, the story is solid and accurate enough. If you liked the way Almost Famous and Stone’s version of The Doors shaped up, this is for you… only with more girls.

My only criticism is that it doesn’t drill deep enough but then, unless you love the band and mourn them daily, to go that deep would make it about seven hours long and miss the point. Thus my criticism is rendered null and void but there's still a great back-story going on about how the movie has pretended that Jackie Fox was never even in the band. More interestingly, these days Fox is a lawyer - you can do the math for yourself on that one. Still, take it as it comes and everything will be alright. There’s also a fantastic and timely book on the shelves called Joan Jett which is a nice piece of work. But again, unless you like passing your evenings looking at lots of pictures of rock stars (which I do – particularly of Joan Jett) – you might be better off with a book with words in it.

At which point I would suggest I Am Number Four (which is more or less Twilight cross-bred with Superman) and only took me a couple of days to whip through. The movie is going to go globally ballistic when it’s released and will more than likely be shit but the book is good enough…

Things accomplished in real life: Started flatplanning issue 191 of Skin Deep which I’m really looking forward to. It hasn't taken long to fall back into the zone.

Things accomplished in fiction: Or not achieved as the case may be. The script that I threw into the ring at Red Planet got knocked back, but that’s OK. As the deadline creeped up on me, I knew I was never going to finish Fox On The Run in time so I mailed in the first part of Too Hot For Dogs. It’s still a good script but I would have been surprised if it had gotten anywhere – I think the script version is a bit edgy – and not in the right way - for UK television.