Hello neighbour. :)

Very very strange to hear such a straight treatment applied to Clinic. But just proves how great their songs are underneath the freaky sonics.

I really don't know! That whole album is a bit mysterious, it came to me in a plain white sleeve as a free surprise when I ordered some stuff from their website. Seems possible!

Hood is one of my recommended artists, but then again so is Justin Timberlake...WTF?!?

You are right. I've had a hard time avoiding female vocalists this year, what with solo releases from Amy Millian, Emily Haines and Neko Case plus Broadcast, My Brightest Diamond, Cortney Tidwell, etc. I'm seeing Cortney Thursday night. Hope it's good!

Oh you've more than made up for that with everything else! Was listening to a bit of Scale on my way into work... the orchestration is be-yoot-iful!

Tech support is back - I need a new Mac here at work but the contents of the hard drive are salvageable. One day I will scrobble from everywhere again!

That's brilliant! Many thanks!

You know, while I was without a computer, the two albums I was most jealous to see you with were Animal Collective's Feels and Herbert's Scale... PS - Interested in [artist]Hood[/artist]? You should be. Get in there!

The live Salt the Skies is one of the most impressive band performances I've seen. Great energy, and they turned a medium-intensity song into a perfect and noisy jam. I enjoyed the jazz festival stuff (Ten-Day Interval and Othello), which mostly showcases how skilled and versatile the Tortoise/Chicago Underground crew is.

You've got new erecommendation props-please let me know if you need anything!! My favourite Oxford places-MOMA=great gallery that often has good photography show-also I love the botanical gardens!!

Yes, it's all pretty great. I still have a few of the live shots to watch, but I've seen almost all of the DVD. Some of the live bits are odds and ends rather than essential Tortoise, and some of the videos don't quite do the band justice, but even despite this, the DVD is excellent. The b-sides, rarities and remixes are incredible too.

I've put up some Grandaddy rarities you might enjoy...

Oops yes! Perils of staying on the Dashboard, sorry! Oxford surely is very gothic and beautiful, with all those stone buildings surrounded by green meadows and grazing deer. Although whenever I go I seem to spend more time getting the family's feast from the Chinese takeaway than hanging around with deer

Are you at work today by the way? It's a national holiday over here :-p

I'm too old to have been at school with those kids :( Saw them live last year supporting [artist]cinerama[/artist], they were excellent. yeah the mum live album is a revelation, gives me a whole new respect for them

I went to school in Oxford, would like to say that Radiohead were all there, but they weren't. However the guy playing guitar for the school play was later in Ride then Oasis

Heh, very cool. So do you know this Stereobate lot?

No-one should ever have to write the words 'porno' and 'my father' in the same paragraph!!! On my way there now...

Sigur Ros's Ny batteri ep is on my disk now...

Yep- thanks a heap. Obviously I asked the right guy. That's hilarious it's your dad! I love that one.

Oh, I'm dling the lot! - I'll listen to anything at least once ;-P

Oh, well worth it! Completely unrelated, but you may need to re-dl track 8 of Philip Glass, there was a service interruption! ( :-( I'm choosing to ignore that glitch_

There's some Philip Glass and some M83 on my Disk...

Have grabbed The Album Leaf, they look interesting - who are Stereobate?!

Have sent you [artist]Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia[/artist], obscure Brit Post-Rock for your enjoyment...

Your disk is bursting with stuff! Tortoise in 3 disk spectacular? Getting it now, but should I be scared?

Reindeers reminded me more of Snow Patrol than the Delgados, which is a bit less interesting in my eyes I'm sorry to say. On the other hand I've been loving absolutely all of that Calexico...

I went to see my mum! Back now! About to take over your shoutbox... :)

i had room for the sampler, so if you like it let me know and i'll upload the full discs.

i'm snatching the new tortoise now. i've got something i think you may like, so clear some room :) chart positions quit working when last.fm had to rebuild carts last week. i guess there's nothing for the script to compare to...

I've snatched Tortoise many thanks-question are you greasemonkey chart positions working? Mine stopped working about a week ago?

you are correct, i don't have the new tortoise. and you're not running out of gifts...I'll look at you library and pick something out. I still believe you've way out gifted me!

i haven't snatched anything yet. any suggestions? i think i have a lot of what's up there now.

Hey- well, if you've got a disc of it at least, maybe we can work something out. OK if I email you about it? Thanks! It's 100% out of print, it seems, and I just have 2 of the tracks.

it's up. you know the drill. you can surprise me if you have something you think i'd like. thanks!!

I've got the new Kasbian album but not sure if it's you bag?

Small doses, Brad! No-one can cope with an apocalypse every 20 minutes for the whole afternoon!!!

I had a reverse makeover. Men were just using me for my good looks :P

Snappy track names those Red Sparow boys, eh? Reminds me of GYBE and Silver Mt Zion

when i was in college my roommate's boyfriend would put music on my computer in return for me letting him use it while i was in class. he introduced me to everything from aphex twin to the books to lightnight bolt to iron & wine, etc, etc. i loved (or grew to love) almost everything he gave me. i guess you could say i have him to thank for my diverse taste, and I love him for it!

oh crap! that sucks. I promise I didn't delete it. Please try again.

i wrote a 393 character response :( where did it go?

i did, many thanks, and it's sounding good. will grab rudolph by the nose later on...

Hey- since you're the #2 Stereobate fan, I just thought I'd ask on the off chance: you don't want to sell Selling out in the Silent Era, do you? I can't find a copy anywhere! Thanks. Just in case...

so how/when did you get into post-rock, mr. post-rocker?

Hello, how are you doing! The pug looks yummy!

phenomenal dog there

No I never actually got hold of their stuff... So what did you think of Patrick's second album?

I'd forgotten all about the Reindeer Section - just looked them up and it turns out they had someone from every single Scottish band EXCEPT the Delgados!