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Excellent analysis there young grasshopper. I love a bit of the 'head. I've enjoyed every album more than the previous effort (with the exception of Amnesiac which seemed more of an out take album from the Kid A sessions). Hail to the thief was qualitee. Apart from the tracks you mention, A Punch Up At A Wedding (No No No No No No No No) was class and Go To Sleep (Little Man Being Erased) is one of my favourite tracks they've ever done. OK computer gets all the praise though. Not unreasonable. I've always seen Paranoid Android as the Bohemian Rhapsody of my generation. Fucking genius.

Ricky Gervais Podcasts series 2 I think Steve Merchant is funnier than Pilkington in these ones. "A pasty white man waving with his cock out!" "I couldn't have saved you with your glasses off and your knob out"

Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche. I never tried it as typical Schoodent so I thought I'd give him a go now. I thought it was going to be a general 'I', as in a look at human cognition. Then I read the other chapter headings - "Why I am So Clever" & "Why I write such Good Books" and I thought it may not be so general. I'm only into the wise bit so far but it's funny stuff like: "However unchristian it may seem, I am not even inimical towards myself, one may turn my life this way and that, one will only rarely, at bottom only once, discover signs that anyone has borne ill will towards me - perhaps, however, too many signs of good will...My experiences even of those whom everyone has had bad experiences speak without exception in their favour, I tame every bear, I even make buffooons mind their manners. During the seven years in which I taught Greek to the top form of the Basel Grammar school I never once had occasion to mete out a punishment; the laziest were industrious when they were with me" or "One would have to go back centuries to find this noblest of races that the earth has ever possessed in so instinctively pristine a degree as I present it. I have, against everything that is today called noblesse, a sovereign feeling of distinction - I wouldn't award to the young German Kaiser the honour of being my coachman". Conceited little prick. If he put that on his CV I'd shove it straight in the bin. No wonder everyone ignored him when he was alive.

Yay for Anal Cunt Their Eric Clapton one is best.

And I find Hitler in my heart From the corpses, flowers grow

Just lucky. My brother entered a competition about 18 months ago (23 September 2004 to be exact) to meet them and ask them a question. Because of this I've been on MTV/The Hits loads of times. If you own their DVD, Girls On Film, you can watch me whenever you want. I've since had lunch with them in a swish London hotel and been bowling/arcade game playing with them. Fact: I'm better than Nadine at (simulated) skiing. Fact: I'm better than Nadine at (simulated) horse racing. Fact: If there was ever an alien invasion that required someone to shoot alien ships out of the sky, I'd be more use than any member of Girls Aloud (possible exception: Kimberley). I can't find the file just now but my brother worked out how much Girls Aloud have spent on getting us to see them and it's quite a lot. 136934[/snapback] So which ones you given the cheetofinga?

To which I said And anyone who's ever been to primary school knows that sort of agreement lasts for life and is legally binding. 136920[/snapback] What's the craic there then? Are you their dealer, chauffeur or fag hag? EDIT: I realise fag hag is the woman, but I don't know what you call the gay in such relationships.

Can you name 5 of your 8 great grandparents? 136907[/snapback] No, but I've never met any of them... I know that the one grandparent that I've met is called Margaret Wood. One of my grandfathers was George. 136909[/snapback] Have you met all the members of Girls Aloud? 136911[/snapback] Yes, several times. 136912[/snapback] Outside of receiving your court order?

Can you name 5 of your 8 great grandparents? 136907[/snapback] No, but I've never met any of them... I know that the one grandparent that I've met is called Margaret Wood. One of my grandfathers was George. 136909[/snapback] Have you met all the members of Girls Aloud?

Can you name 5 of your 8 great grandparents?

Tweedy's the only one I know. Loved their last album though.

He hasn't earned it yet. 136613[/snapback] Why am I reminded of Tom Hanks? 136682[/snapback] Don't know. 136683[/snapback] Captain Miller (played in Saving Private Ryan by Hanks and here by Renton) implores Private Ryan to "Earn it!" when he's killed to death. It's shite! 136690[/snapback] Is there a way of not being 'killed to death' like? 136752[/snapback] He could commit suicide to death, or get a chinese burn that kills. I felt it would ameliorate the sentence to be precise.

He hasn't earned it yet. 136613[/snapback] Why am I reminded of Tom Hanks? 136682[/snapback] Don't know. 136683[/snapback] Captain Miller (played in Saving Private Ryan by Hanks and here by Renton) implores Private Ryan to "Earn it!" when he's killed to death. It's shite!

He hasn't earned it yet. 136613[/snapback] Why am I reminded of Tom Hanks?

The Woodsman Left me with mixed feelings, as most films about paedophilia do. You're asked to take the guy at face value, someone who recognises he has an illness, wants to 'be normal' but can see that there's little light at the end of the tunnel. I was concerned that it asked me to be sympathetic, but then it shows you just how close he comes to giving in to temptation. It's unbearable to watch and sickens you that someone this dangerous is paroled. It answers no questions and comes to no conclusion; neither does it excuse anyone making the decisions they do. Kevin Bacon's performance is the best I've seen from him. Locked up for good or rehabilitated? The fact is the latter requires putting faith in a convicted child abuser. It would be very rare cases where I could imagine an abuser earning that trust.

The Decemberists - Picaresque It's mellifluous.

Classic film although i do get bored when Mr Vega is taking Mrs Wallace out for a bite.... 136359[/snapback] Really ? I think the scene where they are giving Mia Wallace the adrenaline shot is one of the best in cinema history. 136368[/snapback] But then, it was already one of the best scenes in cinema history 15 years earlier when Martin Scorsese filmed it for his 1978 film American Boy.

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean Greenland, El Salvador too. Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela Honduras, Guyana, and still, Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil. Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam. Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland And Germany now one piece, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia Italy, Turkey, and Greece. Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania Ireland, Russia, Oman, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran. There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal France, England, Denmark, and Spain. India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan, Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia) And China, Korea, Japan. Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia The Philippine Islands, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand Then Borneo, and Vietnam. Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia Guinea, Algeria, Ghana. Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo The Spanish Sahara is gone, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia Egypt, Benin, and Gabon. Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali Sierra Leone, and Algiers, Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya Cameroon, Congo, Zaire. Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia... Crete, Mauritania Then Transylviania, Monaco, Liechtenstein Malta, and Palestine, Fiji, Australia, Sudan.

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance is out now too by the same geezer. It's good too.

Timecode The fact that the title has nothing whatsoever to do with the story, but with the method behind filming it says everything. It’s a throwaway story centred around a production office where one of the partners is having an affair, on this afternoon his mistress and her partner arrive for what is meant to be an audition. It’s not the story that makes it so watchable; the whole film is an experiment. Filmed as a symphony, the screen is split into 4 and each section runs unedited for 90 odd minutes. Volume is adjusted within each screen so you know what to follow and it works surprisingly well. Particularly when each section is brought together at some exact point such as the ongoing tremors that occur (you can see people reacting in entirely different locations at precisely the same time) or the zoom each camera does at a specific moment. You have to believe the creators of 24 saw this and were inspired, if that was all it achieved I’d be grateful.

Nowt wrong with Dolly Parton tbh. Leadbelly - Where Did You Sleep Last Night Robert Johnson - Honeymoon Blues Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochi Coochie Man Akalá - This Is London

I love the 'Knot, "Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" - Dylan "I get the news I need on the weather report" - Simon & Garfunkle

Confetti, the new British rom-com. Thought it would be shit and was only half proved wrong, the two puff planners are really funny and the Martin Freeman/Jessica Stevenson couple are superbly played to tug at the old heart strings. The other 2 couples were annoying in an unfunny way and the supposed documentary format wasn't really followed all the way through.

Todays Times comes with a free DVD of Metropolis the Fritz Lang classic. £1.20, you can't go wrong.