I listened to the whole Ratatat album, and I'm very impressed - their beats are immense.

Awwwwww! My heart just melted! And my opinion of Feist just went right up. Brought to us by the number four, I guess? :)

When you say "it's subtle, like their last work" you're remembering how underwhelmed and disappointed by the last album I was, aren't you, and lowering my expectations for my own sake? But also perhaps you're remembering how I'm eternally hopeful and often surprised by good things? Er I guess I'm saying yes please, send it over! ;)

Yeah what happened there anyway? I lost interest after Turkey got knocked out. (I live in a VERY Turkish part of London - every time they were on in the footie all the local shops were heaving with people watching it on the telly) Anyway, never mind that now, what's all this about a new Calexico album?

You'll be excited to hear that [track artist=Elbow]One Day Like This[/track] is being used as background music in the BBC coverage of the Olympics. :)

It is yes and it's very good indeed. Typically Calexico actually. It sorta creeps under your skin and stays there.

People get upset when the guitars get sidelined, I reckon. :) Me, I'm loving the BIG bassline and the most deranged horn section since [track artist=Portishead]All Mine[/track]. Things are great with me thanks - working my socks off at the new job, which is good, and very happy at home with the little fella. How 'bout you?

Hello! I think you need to check out the new Bloc Party single, get yourself to my iDisk. It's got the fans in uproar! I like singles like that. :) And I think it's excellent. Be sure to listen on your nicest speakers the first time, I found a lot of the sonic subtleties were lost, with my Pod'n''phones...

I've been ill the past few days, but as soon as I'm better I'll be checking it all out for sure :) Thanks.

Ooh it's great - cheers!!

Nice, thanks! From those nice Ratatat boys - I see you've had their new album on heavy rotation...

The good news is I've got an enormous Mac with about 260GB of memory, so I've copied over my entire library and I've been entertaining everyone again! Have been exporting my Recently Played into txt files, for future scrobbling... I know YOU understand!!

Yo B! Not been on the net much this week, the restrictions at my new job are pretty strict, so no more daytime scrobbling or surfing. :( But still, it's going VERY well and I'm enjoying myself a lot and working hard. How are you?

$10?! Wow. There must be only a few shooter fans left in the world. You ever play Okami for the Wii? I've played the PS2 version. It's a pretty good game... one you may like. How are you liking SSMB?

Hey there, saw you visited my profile and thought I'd visit back! Cool app that Kavatunes, looks very good. Good collection too btw!

It's all good! OBVIOUSLY they wanted to take me on. I start Tuesday. :D Yippeee!!

You're not feeding your kids Ovaltine are ye? :-)

Just digging into the War on Drugs, lackthereof, and sybris as of late. The new Pop Levi is rather disappointing, imo :(

Well I came by just to say great minds think alike and assert that we must both be great geniuses, but then I see Bert's already used the great minds line. And yeah, it wasn't even me who thought of it. So I'll have to be quiet and hope everyone stopped reading at the line about geniuses. :-)

Not much here. How about you? Any new artists you're digging?

Ha ha yes, definitely funny. I always say if you can't laugh at yourself then you may as well get someone to take you outside and shoot you. :) I have to tell you, though, if you scroll down my page a bit you'll see Mimey already sent me that link!! Well, Mimey's eldest daughter to be precise. Great minds think alike! Have got an interview lined up tomorrow, there's a few of us going along, to another company that's interested in taking a bunch of us on as a team...

RE4 is excellent (own it on the cube). It's a nice change-up from the more clunky controls of the prior REs. You should try GH or Rock Band at a friend's. They're a blast especially RB with the drums and vocals. GH is working on adding drums and vocals for the next release.

You can't purchase games?? That's a bit of a bummer. I'd love to play Mario Kart too. Also would love to try Super Smash Bros, the new MLB Power Pros, and Blast Works.

Ha ha thanks! Would it be fair to say that Genevieve dances a bit like her dad? ;-D And has Seraphine discovered the Chocolate Spread of Cloning?

Thanks! You could do a little dance maybe? :)

That's cool about the GC and Wii versions being mirrored. One of these days I'll play the game. Maybe I'll have a Wii by then?? I see Nintendo is still having supply issues. What's your next fave Wii game after Zelda?

Hello Brad! I just lost my job. The company I work for went bust today, and apparently we won't be getting paid for the last month's work. Well, we can apply to the government for some money, but it won't be all of it, and it could take a couple of months. Hilarious all round! Er, not, clearly. And I was in a mess, and my fella came along to take me home, and on the way back I got a text to say the pub where I do karaoke has just closed down too. It's a bit of a day. how are you?

I DID get some Bertietime this weekend, thanks! Saturday afternoon, the wolfboy was out at work and I had a lovely few hours messing about with some music. :)

I'm going to need to listen again either through my 'phones or at a proper volume when I'm not battling against the roar of the office aircon. Honestly, our cooling system's like something off the Nostromo. I'll be sure to let you know how much I like it. Did you have a good weekend?

Blimey I didn't even notice I'd defaulted to black. That's how braindead I am. I'm a zombie dog, rarrrr!

Hello you! Lovely to get a friendly wink. Was it about anything in particular? My brain's a bit fried after a monster week at work, I might have missed something.

I've been meaning to play Twilight Princess for the cube. How did you like it compared to Ocarina or wind waker? Dark Knight is great!

Yo, what's the dilly? HOw's the Wii life?

What a great review! A lot more music writing should follow that format.

I really am a big defender of the new Last.fm. But still. I miss weekly neighbours. :-(

Well yes I HAD noticed! That's why I immediately thought of you when that stuff came my way. I haven't even listened to ANY of the album myself yet. You come first, Brad! :)

What up Brad! I left a little something on your iDisk for you, did you find it yet? :)

Well, you can leave your favorites thus far in a comment on my last journal entry if you like? Top 10 of mine can be found at the end if you wish to compare, contrast and discuss... have to admit I was bored stiff of Viva La Vida when I first heard it though, but in your opinion, how does it compare to ...endalaust from the Ros?

I've just read a review of Eine Kleine Nacht Musik-Hipster Dance Producer's tribute to 70s Krautrock-could be good or bad :)

Eeeezee nooww, boyeeee!! Now, I know Eno's on the new record, but are you really listening to Coldplay?? Got a "best of the year so far" list going on also? How've you been though... still geek-spasming over this layout?

Lovely! Yes, the VERY first thing I did as soon as I saw the new layout had gone live was to get a 300 pixel wide version of my robosex gif uploaded. :-) I like having two rows of big artist pics so I won't be using the customiser for that. But I dare say once in a while I'll be customising that artist display for impetuous and random reasons. :D And - 3000? It's an honour, sir!

Oh and I couldn't agree more about that nasty border - well said!

Heh, the new feature is that your shout is included in full in the email notification. :) And - YEAH! Bye bye old Last.fm. I'm expecting to see a lot of dizzy and bewildered non-subscribers lurching around in the very near future. And I guess the AEP thing is down to the new way the site handles our data and stats. The AEP people might need to come up with a new formula now...

Ha ha ha have you noticed Last's new feature? You'll never get away with those secret typoes again! ;P

Wow, a perfect 5 AEP! Nice job mate! On a side note, as a subscriber can you still see recent visitors? I'm thinking about re-subscribing since the defacebookification of the beta site.

Do you know anything about Eine Kleine Nacht Musik? Also I see there is a new Ratatat album.

Gah, I've just noticed that at some point over the last couple of Weeks From Hell at work I've passed my 100,000 tracks. I was going to celebrate and everything! :-(