Ahoy. Beatlesquestion: Do you have/has there been a proper release of the version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" with the extra verse on the end? I meant to copy it onto the computer when we last had a copy of the vinyl at work but someone went and bought it for a couple hundred quid.

I'd go along with that - a lot of theirs seems stretched and samey, there wasn't really anything in theirs I didn't know before. Surely if they'd copied yours then theirs would be better than it is? Plus they barely mention Ali other than for historical detail, it's all about Heat and Dillinger.

I've just finished reading it - it seems kinda repetitive. You gonna sue?

I'm sensing a blog on Michael Jackson might be on the way...? Whats going on at Old Trafford; rumour is they are selling everyone. If Ferguson pulls his finger out he'll be able to snap up Darren Bent before he moves to the Black Cats!!!

Well, a trip to England, two visitors, and a new job. But I'll be back soon...

BROMANCE!

When's that Terry Malick film coming out? I haven't missed it yet have I?

Very 6Music. Funny. I have no concept of what 6Music plays but I guess that figures. It really doesn't sound very new or different to my ears, just hits some of my chords. I'm pretty arbitrary when it comes to picking british mainstream bands. UH, for what its worth, I heard the new Kasabian album and it was shit. Not totally lost my edge.

hey you're sometimes into girly whitepeople popindie. You like Florence and The Machine? The album promo came in at work and I played it and I like it but now I feel a little dirty.

Sorting my blog out is my middle name. Maybe.

Hipster? Me? I can't be a hipster, I look like my mum dressed me.

Miserable. My flat is pretty cool. Outside of that I am largely between happinesses, getting by on piles of Jazz records and Hereford's steady progress towards the Premier league (Fifa, I have abandoned the Pro Evo). I should hope you're in a rosier bed of roses.

DAVE! What the hell was that match all about? No passion. I was rooting for United to do the Spanish. £30 million for Berba... I only saw him shaking hands at the end. How's tricks your end? Got tix to see that Michael Jackson fella, he's supposed to do some good dances or something, was big in the 80s.... Hit me back yo'

I just got his new one, so it's gonna go up from 10. I'm sure I've listened to his one on the David Shrigley album more than 10 times alone, it's ace. It's all about gypsy's. I can see Keith self destruct every week. I see it in nightmares even. Like all the time.

Moving house dramadrama broke etc... back on your trail soon. You Hackney or somewhere now? I'm just about to move to Aldgate East/Whitechapel.

Public Enemies looks like fun times, but I wish Mann would decide on DV or celluloid and not mix both. It doesn't look consistent.

Yup yup. Tis good stuff. I've bought like...4 cd's this week - not like me at all. Handing over money for music I could pirate with a little effort feels alien, but good. I got the Dan Auerbach cd and the Dark Was The Night comp. It has all sorts of twee hipster shit on it - tailor made for me basically.

week after sounds grand.

Any good free time next week? With kid/missus/without, day night. I'm reintergrating into london and have pretty much abandoned the country. Just need to relocate my stuff/computer.

DAVE! How's it going? Just like to point out... I've been seeing a girl who uses my itunes and has added some of her cd collection to it thus the reason for the likes of Gavin Degraw (cunt) and Razorlight (cunts) etc... I'm loving moorestown by sun kil moon, its unbelievable. Kozeleks (right?) voice is perfect. Am enjoying a lot of French hip hop, I don't know why, I just well enjoy hearing French rappers! How's London? Same old same old?

It's not Ringo. I doubt it's Paul. As good a drummer as Paul clearly was I don't think he had that kind of style/swagger around the kit. I thought you'd have some kind of exhaustive session notes in a book somewhere :-)

Hey, dyou know who played the drums on the Beatles' "Don't Let Me Down"?

Four at once? youch. Thats how I work I think. If I only have one thing on the go then I get stuck. 'Almost done' sounds good.

yeah. How many novels you written now?

Uhh, if I worked out exactly who it sounded like then I'd feel like I copied it. I dunno. I'll get back to you. Its just slower tempo sample music I guess. The drums are some southern rap drum machine shit and the samples are pathos-y. It's not too mind expanding.

Yeah that really suits me but I'm not cutting my old feller off. I figure I'll just be like "it's tagged Beezer B" but that's kind of Hiphoppy and the music is currently some sentimental downtempo shit :-)

Energies are focused on musicing and keeping warm. Currently focused on what name to use when actually making music available for people to listen to... I can spend a lot of time worrying about this type of thing. Blogging is clogged up by not having written an end of year list.

Aw mannnnn... That really sucks. I could come up with about a million more questions but I won't. :-(

No no no, I swear there used to be a Charlie Wyatt, based in Brussels and maybe Berlin for a while. Then you didn't see him for a year or so and then up pops Caroline Wyatt. Ah man...

Don't forget to ask about Caroline Wyatt. Shit is important.

The urge to play Philly soul is actually controlled by Mojo Jojo with mind altering radiowaves. We were just obeying the same subliminal command. I think I'll grab that Walkmen then. They're nice lads with a nice drummer.

Fuck Buttons are my friend's friends. I'm like a celebrity. Ooh Dvd, and Forster in fact, did you get the last Walkmen album? I don't know anybody who did so I didn't but I like Jonathon Fire Eater and the first few things they released and then less so after that but still... I bought like zero indie this past year... Is the dude still doing a lame Dylan impersonation?

I'm shocked you said Fleet Foxes! I was going to say earlier how they've been ridiculously over-hyped this year....more than Bon Iver I reckon. All those bloody posters in the tube stations. Agree about Portishead and My Morning Jacket....would definitely add Bon Iver, Herman Dune, Mogwai, Black Mountain, Fuck Buttons and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra.

that's a nice little typo, in the message you wrote on James' page! Hope you have a good christmas and Happy 2009! Z. P.S. I agree about Bon Iver being over-hyped but it's an awesome album and even better performed live. What gets your vote for best album out of interest?

Merry Christmas! It's good here thanks, even a little touch of snow for extra yuletide cheer. Bon Iver is a very good record, I think, but not amazing. Probably excellent live though, I imagine. Unfortunately I was not in Japan to witness your exceedingly easy triumph, but at least I got to watch it at a reasonable hour, as the premiership is usually watched in bed half asleep.

There's eclecticism and then there's being at the mercy of randomness. Scary. I do random within carefully defined parameters. Chicken. You can scrobble your ipod you know? I'm like the biggest BBC news fan in the world. Its the only thing I watch. The newsreaders are like my superheroes. Can you ask her if Caroline Wyatt used to be Charlie Wyatt or if I made that up? No one believes me.

Your totally random listen doesn't leave much room for statistical analysis. Is your Mrs still @ BBC News?

I'm gonna add it to the list of records to put in a bag next time I pass through Londinium. Which may not be until the end of January or even Feb. I'm a bit low on new physical music at the moment. I have lots of internets music. I got a couple of psych bits in a charity today but I feel like you with no cinema. Oh, listened to the Common. Largely don't like but I do like two of the Mr DJ cuts. The Cee-Lo one and the Martina one. Also like Inhale and Gladiator on some "I wish Neptunes had given these beats to Jay-Z" shit. :-)

Oh and that Baldry break. I know I know it but can't remember it. I think I have it on a 7", like a b-side. Is that going to be the same version? The internet can't supply me with a sound sample that includes the beginning and the record is int' smoke.

I do have an interest in the Common album but until someone actually has a copy with liner notes and can tell me how many tracks MR DJ produced, I'm not touching it. I like what I've heard so far (musically). For a rapper I actively dislike, Common gets a lot of leeway from me.

Definitely damaged. I feel for dude but at the same time... just one more album would have been nice huh? Have you ever heard that "Snatch & the Poontangs" album? I've always wondered about it. I don't much like the Kooper album. Not my bag.

I haven't read it yet because I got it this morning and am rationing it so that it fills a number of lunch times. Hardcore lonerliving dictates, tv news with breakfast, paper (wednesdays and saturdays) or magazine with lunch, whatever shit I can find that is bearable to watch with dinner. Funny old existence.

Ohyeahs: New Wax Poetics magazine has a 7 page interview with Shuggie Otis that I haven't read yet but is surely cause for national holiday. You being a master of the "focused browse" could probably manage it on a trip to Borders, if you don't fancy dropping the six nuggets for one interview.

Oh I heard a rumour that you had hit the jackpot they call "stay at home dad". I've always wanted a grey beard. Like Obi Wan. Distinguished. My face isn't long enough to look distinguished with a beard, I just look "grisly" or at best "kindly". Hard times.

Wikipedia says that was only two years ago. I almost have long hair at the moment. Imagine that shit. I can't. In fact it's like a mullet. It's not a hairstyle I just haven't cut it for months. I have much less use for vanity in a life where I never see anyone. I'll get it back. You got long hair? grey beard? sex change? A lot can change in two years.

Utd fans get to profile Arsenal fans as smug now? oh come come now. We should have talked football the other week, right after we schooled you on how to play football. Ah but my heart isn't really in football banter, for every thirty second I do team-wars I need to watch 2 youtube clips of High School Musical to get my equilibrium back.

I'm gonna put that on "you don't know me well enough" cos if I didn't I'd be pretty pissed off. I grew up about half a mile from Highbury. Not a good day for it either.

Looks like it's Seoul FC for me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Seoul

Great news! Remember my Brazilian team in the blue and white stripes?: http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/8784998/Kuerten-celebrates-Avai%27s-promotion-in-Brazil

Awhmaaan you saw Virus! Gonna read that later.