Hee, no worries! Look how many Menomena plays I racked up this week - I've been getting slightly obsessed with Friend and Foe...

Ok kool will do-when will I be able to see your top 10 of the year?

Hey Brad! How's your weekend shaping up? I am ridiculously hungover after the work Xmas party last night. But making a slow recovery!

We sure are! Yippee!!!

In case you hadn't seen this(I hadn't)-new free okkervil river album[url]http://www.okkervilriver.com/index.php[/url]

Today's not bad thanks - got some great music to keep me going!

I like it quite a lot, it's been growing on me! I don't know the debut at all though, am I missing out on a masterpiece?

Very interesting! Yeah, I'm still knee deep in 07 albums, aiming to review the ratings for at least 50 of them(!) before I write about my Top 30(!). 5 of the albums in your playlist are in my top 10, and 2 more make the top 30. Although (spoiler!) Battles might get knocked into the 40s as I go through and rate more records...

Don't get me started, the whole song's a minefield! She wants him to hurry down her chimney! And then at the end - Forgot just one little thing - a ring. And I don't mean on the phone... Oh dear, I did say don't get me started, didn't I?

And that, my friend, is EXACTLY where she wanted your mind to wander! :)

Aha, the truth emerges! I like Kylie's version of that song, it's VERY sexed-up!

Brilliant! Well, I did listen to Low and Battles as well this week. OR... is it because you've been on the Britney & Kylie again? ;D

Hey Dude-Are you planning a best of the year journal?

Brad be careful out there! Auto pinball sounds like no fun at all. Personally I'm closing my doors on the outside world for the rest of the weekend. Hibernation ahoy!

The sound of that Liars album really reminds me of [artist]The Jesus and Mary Chain[/artist]. Just putting what I have of theirs on my iDisk, please help yourself, think you might like!

What a way to go! (Linderman that is). Yes, this week's MUCH better thanks. Snow, you say? Just grey rain here!

Yay - you put up pictures of your girls! So cute!

YAY! And bloody hell! Brilliant!

Oh hooray! I'm trusting you here! :)

I heard it was a bit of a short season and a few people were disappointed - should I start lowering my expectations for next year now?

[excited]HEROES SEASON FINALE TONIGHT![/excited]

Oh, I know you weren't implying that we brits are BACKWARD and RETARDED when it comes to Sci-Fi films. I was just taking deliberate mock-umbrage, as is my way. And my MacBook's lovely, thanks, but the re-jigged function keys are a bit of a pain. Leopard's mostly good too, but first thing I did was put back the 2D dock and the opaque menu bar. I'm such a luddite!

I KNEW I wasn't COMPLETELY barking when I came up with that genre! :)

BTW, do you find that Last.fm has a knack for offering the LEAST representative sample tracks for artists on their profile pages? It seems that way to me.

Thanks for the El Ten link. A most impressive use of double-neck-guitar-bass. Sensitively played too -- Polyrhythms, dynamics, everything is focused. I'm reminded of some tracks from Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc, latest release --more for the mood than playing style.

Very nice indeed, thanks - lots of different influences in there, all adding up to a unique style...

I see you dropped by. So what do you think of the new Kiln? In general I'm not a post-rock fan but I like El Ten Eleven pretty well. Happy listening.

Oh 64% :-( I don't read enough or play enough computer games, clearly.

Ooh! I'll do that geek quiz! (We got Star Wars and Star Trek over here, you know! Except they were renamed Star Quarrel and Star Saunter respectively). Actually, did you know that Top Cat was re-named Boss Cat over here? How shit is that?

YAY! I am 73% geek! Beat that, fratboy!

Geek quiz? I'm goin in.!

I AM THE LORD OF THE MACS SAID HE! 70%! It would have been lower, had I not just bought my third Mac.

49% for me. I bet you're higher. You must invite Puds to play, I want to know which of you is the most obsessed :-)

Dude we're still super!-little known fact my girlfriend's cousin's boyfriend used to be in Cherry Ghost!

Thanks, yes please. I can upload these [artist]Cherry Ghost[/artist] guys I've got on in return, if you like the look of them.

Ha, I still don't. But all our iTunes at work are linked on the network, so I can play anything if someone else here has it. And it's YOUR fault for making me think of it. Jessica Simpson, mind you, has no-one to blame but herself. :-P

Link work ok?

The AEP situation is not a war... but I think it's fair to say that you won ;-)

Oh I may have just accidentally given the impression that London is like a Sherlock Holmes film, all peasouper fog and carriages clattering on cobbled streets. Er, well yes, yes it is.

'Cos we call those indicators, and for a minute there I had a really weird vision of Kansas City traffic. (Over here, blinkers are what they put on the side of horses' heads to stop them looking from side to side)

When you say (drivers who don't use) blinkers, you mean the little flashing lights, right?

No! :-) You're the first to notice! Maybe everyone else figured I have the sleeves to the classic 80's album Erad and the rare 12 version of Annod Remmus's pioneering disco classic Evol Leef I