mockney piers

So many tears in the other music place, thought i'd cheer myself up a bit Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for Ducks

Oh yeah Canada, never a bad word spoken in that country. A big shout for Argentina too, especially the ones that killed a kid* and made the best empanadas in the world in our honour. *that's a small goat people...lighten up!!

G&B or The Green Nancysmum?

I'd have to go with Portugal as the friendliest place I've been to. France outside of Paris is great. I've found Ireland a mixed bag, very like the UK in that respect I guess. Spain is strange, they (we?) can be quite antipathetic on the surface, but make the effort to speak the lingo and be gregarious yourself and you'll soon win them over, at which point they're as good as it gets.

I had a pumpkin casserole. And now have a lovely scary pumpkin on the balcony to boot :)

Each to their own captain. I don't think the intention is to state the obvious, it's more about carpe diem, about not taking those around you for granted but letting them know you love them and you care. I think it's a heartwarming song. Agree about Mercury Rev. Opus 40 is a gorgeous song. The Flaming Lips credit them with paving the way for their own revival. I thought Vermillion on the last album was great too.

In my experience it's been consistently rubbish for the last 6 years. Slow, often poor service, cold overpriced food and aforementioned snootiness. Fine if you get a bottle of wine from the bar and take it to an outside table yourself on a nice day. Otherwise avoid.

hare here hair

It'll fare better when a pint is spilt on it or you knock it off the table on to the unforgiving victorian tiles. fair/fare?

They'll have to be filed under guilty pleasures charlie, as I rather enjoyed them!! The latter reminded me of an old tune called Ansaphone by Jonny L for some reason, couldn't find it anywhere (well, I had it on vinyl, but leant most of my old dance vinyl to a mate who ran off to New Zealand with it all!! Here's some stuff from his old label mates Prodigy - Charly purest cheese. Cool tune Ben.

you see, you see, you understand!! :)

ok, it's not a game, but how's this for wireless browsing down the pub, 3.5" internet pc in a beanbag for a hundred quid Got to be better then poncing on your viao in public like nathan barley surely. http://www.chumby.com/story

I wasn't a fan of the Bruce Springsteen classic Thunder Road, then I heard the Tortoise and Will Oldham cover, and I finally got it. Maybe it misses the point of Bruce Springsteen's blue collar rock, but this version is absolutely sublime http://lablogo.free.fr/sidiali/ThunderRoad.mp3 This may sound a bit odd, but this can do it to me quite badly, particularly if I stumble home steaming in a weird mood and whack it on loudly (not popular with the neighbours). Sadly I couldn't find the studio version, and this doesn't quite do it, but anyway Animal Collective - Banshee Beat

LOL brendan! Classes in Cleveland perhaps? I've a feeling they don't differentiate between the two over the pond, it's just 'practice'.

It's kind of happy and sad all at once really, but certainly does something in a lumpy throat sort of way. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize

Great tune charlie Here you go barry, I've posted it up before http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,7146,8752#msg-8752 and if you catch me in the right mood, but only if I get a bit of dust in my eye obviously Penguin Caf? Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile Ideally we'd have southern jukebox music but noones uploaded it.

This one could kill some time 50 brain teasers. http://duggmirror.com/health/50_Brain_Teasers_with_a_Neuroscience_Angle/ hmm, looks like Digg interest has brought the site down. Maybe wait a couple of hours for this one.

can't we just add fox-tons to the cia-lis list? ;-)

have no problem with principal/principle You wouldn't believe how often I see BP or McDonalds in our principle_client column and think 'that can't be right'. Totally with you on licorice. Also have a terrible habit of typing genereal when trying to type general.

We're going to have to create a compendium of your oblique and poetic posts, I reckon we could have a Forward Prize winner on our hands.

This is genius, and brings a bit of a tear to my eye if truth be told Patti Austin - Take Away the Pain Stain and the original It's all you have to do, is do the shake n vac...

There always Denmark Hill Village (sic).

It belonged to the owner, it wasn't on public display...at least it was when I used to drink there regularly which was about 10 years ago now.

Reminds me of a private eye cartoon where Ang Lee is accepting his oscar for Broke Back Mountain and says 'It's about this broke..' Yeah, I usually paws over the bear/bare thing too.

No way...the Hob?! Does it still have a scary baseball bat behind the bar though?