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Jiri Weil's Mendelssohn is on the Roof. First impressions are that this is excellent; there are things about it that bring to mind Catch 22 a little bit. As this was published 6 years beforehand I wonder if it had some influence over Heller's own work. --- hmm, given it wasn't translated til the nineties this is unlikely. Anyway, recommended.

I saw it has the lovely nicola walker in, but all those dreadful northern accents, oh my no, it'd be like The Lakes all over again!

I'm not going to ask about Gerald. As long as he didn't molest the magenpies.

*bob* is the obvious exception. And snorky (woodrot et al).

True enough steveo, but it does make him an arsehole. I love lots of his solo stuff, but it when I first saw that interview it took the shine off it. They DO say don't meet your heroes, and the older I get the less I want to meet any of them.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/los-lobos-steve-berlin-labels-paul-simon-a-jerk-alleges-graceland-snub/

Corrrr, a couple more weeks like that and ill be all lower mid table.

You need iOS 6 to run baldurs gate. Mind you I wouldn't try it on an iPhone, fiddle enough on an ipad.

Godwin, at effing last.

Apple maps has literally almost nothing right in our locality. I gave up reporting them after about the fifth or sixth establishment.

I'm planning on going to help-ma-boab's house to discuss sorting algorithms.

Having the new house wired up for this. I'm glad to sonos does line outs as well as the end to end as in a couple of rooms I'll want to be putting it into a traditional hi-fi set-up. Are there any decent sonos alternatives at all? Cursory searches doesn't really highlight any which is pretty amazing if they've bagged an entire market for themselves.

I did the google play thing, it took 5 24hr days to upload my mp3s, sadly it wont upload lossless, which means every time I get a new album I have to rip it twice which is a bit annoying. The iTunes match thing sounds more sensible. It is useful at work for when I forget my ipod though.

here you go http://www.spotify.com/uk/help/faq/ipod-integration/ "Can I sync my streaming music from Spotify to my iPod? No. Only local music files can be synced to your iPod. Spotify streaming music can only be played within Spotify applications."

spotify works by streaming the music, an ipod needs to physically have the media on the hard/flash drive. I'm not really a spotify user but I guess the download to ipod means you purchase the mp3 in order to own it rather than the usual streaming.

That's pretty cynical steveo. I'm not convinced we have a 'compensation culture' for starters, but I imagine for alot of these people coming forward it probably has a lot more to do with getting closure for their traumatised 9 year old selves, finally being listened to, and hey, perhaps even a sense of justice.

so is he being held for sex crimes or for peverting the cause of justice then?

Sociopaths tend to be dynamic becuse they're not hampered by moral qualms or fear of negative consequences, they also, as the name suggests, tend to be damaging to individuals and the social fabric to some degree or other. Unregulated capitalism is a sociopathic phenomenon. This is why people calling for deregulation as some sort of panacea for society "it'll make it more dynamic and we'll all benefit from the increased growth" quite specifically is unable to square the circle that it does so at the expense of those who don't benefit. Social darwinism, socialpathwinism.

"I can arrive at the same position by coldly calculating that is serves no useful purpose to exclude anyone from society / the team / the interview / my party" That's great that you can do that, unfortunately history, hell current trends, tell us that it can actually benefit many an agenda to marginalise, scapegoat or persecute the powerless and this is where legal protection comes in. This coldly calculated objectivity is a total fantasy, thus you may think arriving at that position is utilitarian, but you must on some level acknowledge that it is wrong in some respect or other, and if that isn't a moral judgement then I'm not quite sure what it is. Positive discrimination is another matter entirely, I'm inclined to agree it's totally counterproductive.

Much as I loathe the Hamiltons, there's a nice bit of irony here.

Arsenal 1 West Brom 1 Aston Villa 0 Stoke 1 Southampton 1 Reading 1 Sunderland 1 Chelsea 2 Swansea 1 Norwich 3 Wigan 1 QPR 1 Man City 3 Man Utd 4 Everton 2 Tottenham 1 West Ham 2 Liverpool 1 Fulham 2 Newcastle 0

I think you're mistaken jeremy

Cheers DJKillerQueer Of course 'over his career' rather undrmines your good-as-your-last-film brutality suggestion. Plus he's much less annoying in Shrek ;) And the most interesting thing about that list is how much money Dreamgirls made...staggering!!!