El Pibe

I've not seen it, sounds like tv gold, get AllForNun and Louisa to review telly. Genius!!

did anyone catch "Our Girl" last night? I have to say, underneath the veneer of watchability provided by Lacey Turner and Matthew McNulty was an unabashed recruitment advertorial for the Army's 'be all you can be' campaign, with some weird stereotypes thrown in for good measure. Essex bloke, baby producing, council sponging, racist benefit cheat - tick Muslim, bringing up issue of institutional islamophobia in government and the army (especially in light of further iraq abuses surfacing) somewhat undermined by making him a snarly, moustache twirling, doris hitting villain with a harem. I know the beeb fawns rather in its royal coverage, but should it really be doing propaganda?

Bloody hell. 8.04

62.14, now for hypermode.

Does this mean my house price is going to go up? Excellent I think a new car :D

It has to be said that the infrastructure gains are a real selling point for me. Plus there hasn't been much atmosphere at the boleyn for a while.....

I have a real block at 24 seconds, it's uncanny how many times I've failed there. See also 18 seconds and 34 seconds. Have crept up to 48 seconds now, I reckon its plain sailing from there to the magic 60 seconds though! Remember, do hard for five minutes then go back and see how much time you suddenly have.

WOMAD was my first, 1990 if memory serves, a roasting day at the Milton Keynes Bowl. My art teacher's husband was the main sound engineer, he collapsed with acute renal failure, so a couple of friends and i got all his equipment in my clapped out Volkswagon Derby and we hot footed it up there just in the nick of time to save the day. They gave us VIP passes and we got to meet legends like, errrrr, The Screaming Blue Messiahs.

why utilise three letters when seven will do?

Doesn't crilly have a Las Vegas thing when funds are resting in his account?

Funnily enough when ever la piba and I step into a casino, I lose everything within about four minutes, wondering why anyone bothers and then I have to literally prise la piba off the slots!!!

Has tergiversado?

SJ saw me on the train achieving this, totally sucked in to my phone. Got a 38 though!!!

34.53

I guess that associative thing can be a two-edged sword. I can't hear the B52s or the Stone Roses without a summer of '89 madeleine moment. Most anything I buy these days I listen to with 3 screenfuls of c#/sql/python in front of me, it's most dispiriting!!

maybe so, there are certainly albums I listen to now that when I'm honest to myself I think are far better than much of the stuff I listened to when younger, but they struggle to elicit much of an emotional response any more, unless I'm a few sheets to the wind at any rate. Do I take it this means you think there are classics, that classics from the past aren't necessarily so or FILE_NOT_FOUND?

was musing this morning as shuffle was on, that very little from the past ten years or so seems to register in my head as a 'classic'. Stuff from before I was born seems to automatically qualify and plenty from my youth makes it there. So I'm wondering if there is less produced than once upon a time, or this is a psychological phenomenon, that we canonise the past, idolise our youth and dismiss the present? Anything that qualifies from the last ten years or so? If anyone says anything by radiohead I will apply to admin to have your accounts removed!!!!!!

an old breton colleague recommended the route du rock highly, and we almost made it last year, but miserably failed to book a cottage anywhere. the dreaded nick cave is in attendance so snorkies need not apply. http://www.laroutedurock.com/ I'll be lucky to have enough time to switch 6 music on this year, leave alone get away anywhere.

I've been here 12 years and I'm still a newbie even though I've been here almost as long as i was in the town I grew up in. Luckily I don't give a monkey's wabsnasm about folk saying "I remember when all this was fields....covered in shit", especially when they're trolls with a whiff of the lupine about them.

I sincerely doubt vicanna is a new arrival.

Just borrow a few of snorky's cats, get them to piss all over it, then complain that it smells funny, suspicion will fall on the previous tenants!!

There's a clothes shop called "QED: A Guide to Armageddon"? Weird.

If I ever own a pub I reckon "Sponge Wear Pottery" would make a great name.

if the slashes are line breaks it actually scans quite nicely: That's the first use of 'methinks' that hasn't angered me to the point of smashing my screen face sponge wear pottery. Progress indeed Stafer.