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Aye, you can just about get Five Live on medium wave in northern Germany on a decent day, albeit through a hell of a lot of fuzz and interference - I remember listening to a number of our 1999/00 matches that way (Roma, Birmingham, Tranmere... what a treat ).

Bank holiday weekend coming up, at least. I think? Still working on German time tbh.

Cooper Temple Clause - Damage Liking the sound of their new stuff.

Su Pollard - Starting Together Far more terrifying.

Ended up watching John Tucker Must Die on Friday night. I am so spectacularly under the thumb. They must've known what the audience demographic would be, because the trailers were for things like You, Me and Dupree (seriously, "Two's company. Dupree's a crowd." What the fuck?), Little Man and three more globs of Hollywood spaff so god-awful that my brain has already decided to purge their memory. Or maybe they were just trying to make the main feature look better. It didn't work.

Had the misfortune of seeing him recently at a stoodent comedy night (which was unfortunate enough in the first place, I suppose). He turned up about an hour late and reeled off a grumpy 15-minute set of what effectively amounted to "right, I'll play a riff/impersonate a silly voice and you have to guess who it is", ending with a song about how religion is quite nasty sometimes and a version of Robbie Williams' "Angels" that concluded "He's shagging fellas instead". Groundbreaking. 180226[/snapback] Did he do the thing with the queen mother's head in the newspaper, and the songs about religion and war? Because he did that in 2002! 180624[/snapback] Strangely enough..... Good, now I have even more reasons to dislike the big-faced twat.

I still miss the Doug Anthony All-Stars.

Had the misfortune of seeing him recently at a stoodent comedy night (which was unfortunate enough in the first place, I suppose). He turned up about an hour late and reeled off a grumpy 15-minute set of what effectively amounted to "right, I'll play a riff/impersonate a silly voice and you have to guess who it is", ending with a song about how religion is quite nasty sometimes and a version of Robbie Williams' "Angels" that concluded "He's shagging fellas instead". Groundbreaking.

Try the original. 178630[/snapback] I always tell myself that when I watch remakes, but I can never be arsed. Perfect non-questioning Hollywood customer tbh.

The Lake House. Maybe I was just in a soppy mood but I really went for this, despite the obvious time travel paradoxes and the whiff of lunacy about the whole thing. Still not buying Keanu Reeves as a Proper Actor, but I was surprised at how many facial expressions Sandra Bullock can do. Beautifully filmed an' arl.

All sounds a bit gay to me.

I'm not even supposed to BE here today.

The Book of Velodronomy

Well I, for one, am relieved that £20 for a tube of pentapeptides doesn't constitute a "celebrity price".

Canny Wham song too

Mysterious Skin. Follows the differing life trajectories of two people abused by their baseball coach as boys. Beautifully filmed and with the main roles really - I mean really - well played, but fairly disturbing too, not least because one of the characters effectively romanticises/mythologises the relationship he had with the coach, which is the closest I've seen a film get to addressing the paedophile-as-ersatz-father-figure dynamic this side of L.I.E. - and that was consensual adult/teen sex rather than ultimately damaging abuse (albeit with the damage not recognised as such until later on). Tough viewing, but pretty rewarding in the end.

Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs It's taken me far too long to catch up with this three-hour piece of loveliness.

Camp as tits in many ways, but I don't think he batted for the pink team.

Me too! Truly, we are the butt-buddies of the devil himself. Fiiiine song though. 169280[/snapback] Oh get in my arms you big lug! Hadnt heard it for ages-wicked song. Puts me in the mood for a bit of Rufus Wainwright-Hallelujah 169293[/snapback] The kd lang version of that's canny, an' all. What is it with the high dyke/poof-to-non-deviant ratio of "Hallelujah" covers?

Me too! Truly, we are the butt-buddies of the devil himself. Fiiiine song though.

Aye, it's always wise to be prepared for the worst money-wise when it comes to spending time in London.

Think the last one back from Greenwich is at about 6pm, so be warned. There's a licenced bar on the boat, if that helps.

There's one bang on Leicester Square, as it happens, but it's a smidge more expensive than your average 'spoons... If you've got the weather on your side during Friday or Saturday, you could do worse than get yourself out to Greenwich (use Cutty Sark DLR station), potter around the waterfront for a bit then take a boat back along the Thames to Westminster - it takes about an hour (including a stop at Tower Bridge to load/unload people) and you get a good view of all the sights, plus if you use City Cruises (there are several competing operators) you'll often get a canny boatman who'll give you a sarky commentary on what you're seeing. No guarantees though. Or you could just do what I did on my first [x] visits to London and just spend all your time in HMV and Virgin on Oxford Street, obviously.

It's "Sie liebt dich", which sounds dubious enough to the untrained ear, particularly if you know that they mastered their trade on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg...

Rabid stray dog humped his leg at the Mallorca apartment complex tbh. EDIT: P.S. Welcome back Brockles