Yeah... I came to the conclusion recently that the majority of my friendships are based around talking utter nonsense most of the time. I think this is A Nice Thing, personally. And talking of perplexing music, check out what I was listening to just before 9am today :D

Yep good point I'll ask him-he did the cover art too-he says the new covers are photography rather than illustration?

Wahey Brad! (sorry, I'm VERY tired and excitable right now...) Ditto about the eavesdropping thing -- I do it too (how weird are we?) I usually get a bit perplexed by the music that you and Bert talk about, feel very out of touch for a bit and then slope off and listen to Rachel Stevens :) After all, I used to get mixed up between Modest Mouse and MOM (latter = much better).

The strangest thing-I went to see a designer today (to show work) & we got talking about music & he was like well yes I was at college with Hot Chip & I designed both of their albums-I was starstruck!! Says they are really nice guys!

Thanks so much Brad, absolutely lovely. Especially 'He Poos Clouds'. Oh there you go again, getting me to write things I never thought I would :)

Well and truly spluttered! :)

Good, I'm glad it's a positive move for you. Final Fantasy sounds great! - I've seen the name around on charts and always assumed it was the soundtrack to the Playstation game!!

Oh no, sorry to hear you're indisposed, that's a bummer. Wishing you loads of luck in your hunt. Yeah, come and work here, you can always sleep on the plane each night :-)

Hey Brad, how's it going? Just got back from seeing Patrick Wolf, attempting to write a few thoughts...

I did, but they were both transcodes, so it qualifies...

awesome matey, thanks very much :D. downloading it now- nice to see an interactive web iDisk too!

sorry about that. i stayed up until wee hours of the morning every night last weekend and sunday I had to drive 6 hours to Indiana for a press OK, just to turn around and drive back monday. needless to say i'm still exhausted. thanks for the fill. i have sent some stuff your way...I'm sure you've seen.

TWBA is an electronic departure from Kings. One of the lead singers front the group. The songs are tuneful and addictive. I think with your taste, you might enjoy it.

since we keep bumping into each other, i think i better say hello:) have you tapped into the whitest boy alive? I see that you like Kings of Convenience.

yeah.. i've sent him maybe 15 phrases since '99.... still notihing! sigh. :)

Hey Brad. I wish I could say that I make my avatars.. but I do not. They're from [url=http://explodingdog.com]ExplodingDog[/url]. This guy named Sam takes phrases from people and draws pictures to them. I've been following his work for years... for some reason it touches me. :)

You'll like them, as Niall says they're a lot like Hood. He's put 'Disaffected' up at my place, and there's more to come!

Yeah I really love Technicolour, especially the use of samples - footsteps, fireworks, crazy shit like that.

Yeah, that is about as good a week as I could imagine. I indulged myself a bit. Only thing that was missing was Boards of Canada.

Ooh I see you gave Disco Inferno a few plays - did you like much?

Thank you-I reckon I'll make the leap tommorrow-also planning to subscribe to e/music!! good weekend?

I'm going to load itunes 7-could you let me have the link that allows ipod scrobbles again please

Beck.zip on my public disk if it's of interest!!

Yep it's the new Killers I sent you-just received the new Beck album too!

Did you get a chance to listen to The Killers? I'm interested in your thoughts!!

Hi there, yes I have it but I found it a bit disappointing. I don't have Feast of Wire though, and that looks lovely! ;-)

Cheers Brad, no I didn't have it. Getting in there now!

Yeah, I tend to attract people. Must be my nice smell... :P I'm just fine.. trying to survive my last day of work for the week. You?

Ah, what can I say about YLT. Always innovative, always subtle, always well crafted. I sometimes forget about them but always a comfort to hear them again.

Lol, you gave BWO a go!! Yes that would qualify as cheesy! I think if you'd liked them you'd have been the first straight man in the world to do so! :)

The Daddy, the Horse and the, er, Exico are all very closely linked in my head, that lovely mixture of melancholy and uplift...

Just got home - there's nothing too serious up with my knee apparently, I just have to be patient. Prepare for shoutbox takeover! :)

Interesting we are neighbours too-did you get Sparklehorse ok?

omg you're now my actual neighbour, not just my weekly neighbour! however i am not [i}your[/i] neighbour, you might have to listen to some cheesy pop as well to achieve that :)

Yum, new MoM very exciting - thanks!

*looks over list of bands* I know erm . . .practically none of them.

Thanks very much! Not yet, I'm afraid - internet is going through a rubbish patch. Will give you some feedback once it's worked :)

PS cheers for the Varcharz, will be picking up tomorrow nite, just off to drag some workmates to karaoke...

No you're alright, my default mode is wry ;-)

Yep, they kick ass alright! In a roundabout way I'm saying thanks for introducing me to such a great act :)

I see that Mouse on Mars are now in my overall Top 10. Considering I hadn't even heard of them a couple of months ago, I think you have some explaining to do! :-)

Nah, they normally don't let me near the artwork at all, I'm all about the organisation & the motivation! :) Wouldn't have a clue with inD but can manage a little basic Quark...

Hmm, apple-A then apple-K? Something like that...

Are you on one of your post-rock binges? You know it never ends well ;-) Over here, anything could happen, I am about to go into Quark to amend some artwork. This only happens in emergencies.

Internet outage at home for the last 5 days. Will send broadcast as soon as it comes back up :-)

My weeklies have a healthy P-R influence again :) I see we've both gone N to (X) mad!

It's strange you did send it before-but it didn't seem to want to load onto itunes?

The horror! But I'm sure you're just trying out irony, british style, aren't you? Aren't you? De-friending is only a click away! ;-)

The Knife's version is SO much better :)