‘Manic pixie dream girl (MPDG) is a name given to a type of stock character in films.

Film critic Nathan Rabin, who coined the phrase after seeing Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown, describes the MPDG as “that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men [...]

The past is another country
A crap one, like Belgium
Rife with brown-trousered tedium
Where no one sees disasters coming
Where the phones are big as bricks
Where men sleepwalk down aisles with their future ex-wives
Where the only telly is repeats

But don’t slag it off
Cos I was born on those streets
Where my gawky demeanour and penchant for munching
Made my peers [...]

As prophesied, the Last Days came
The mountains fell, the oceans boiled
Great nations drowned in lakes of flame
Men screamed for God or cursed His name
And underpants were soiled
Flesh crunched with scabs, hair crawled with lice
It was, in truth, not very nice;
Yet – humankind survived somewise
In hidden coves and caves of ice
That echoed with their cries.

They cried [...]

Now I don’t do this often
But before I move on
There’s a man here in spirit
Sorry madam – who’s John?
I’m being told John
And a connection with Paul…
If I said the name Dave
Would that make sense at all?

Maybe David?
Bavid?
Yes, all right.
Yes, I’ll tell her.
He’s saying he’s really surprised you don’t remember Bavid.
He’s showing me a gentlemen
With a [...]