Ayatollah Hermione

I'm more inclined to listen to those watching Serie A every week who say that Giaccherini isn't really much cop. This Peruzzi is supposed to be shit hot though which means he won't be there long.

Peace - In Love: Nothing groundbreaking but very well put together guitar pop. Hope they improve as they go along. Run The Jewels: With HF (and everyone else it seems) on this. Best rap album I've heard in years. The Dear Hunter - Migrant: Some excellent songs mixed in with awful filler. Should have released the best tracks as an EP and worked on another concept album.

Fairweather Friends has good guitar work. I like how I Appear Missing builds too

Fuck all until August so I can shift some clem. Diets? Pah!

kill it. kill it now.

I still maintain we have the first XI to compete with the clubs we need to, with the caveat that we get a good striker to compete with Cisse. It's a bit worrying that we haven't at least attempted to pad out the squad in the places it needs to be though (out wide especially). I think they're hoping Ferguson comes good and we'll see Ben Arfa and Marveaux out there more than we'd like.

Comedy Bang Bang is on Netflix and it's excellent. Set up in the style of a dodgy TV interview show with loads of surreal sketches and moments. Another brilliant US invention.

Sasha Grey, Tori Black and Jimmi Harkishin

CT: never met a biscuit he didn't dunk.

Football tournaments are seeded though. The top 8 seeds can't play each other in the opening stages either.

4? Harper, Simpson, Perch and? EDIT: Ah, Gosling! Fucking hell, forgot about him. I'd rather we saw Anita and Bigirimana get game time this year anyway. We could afford to lose Gosling as he's shite and Perch's loss won't be felt that badly IMO. If Vuckic can stay fit/isn't completely finished already, he should be knocking on the door too.

Agree about his lyrics and flow like; the latter of which has suffered as he tries to shoehorn more stupid lyrics in. There's definitely people out there who will love the "sweet and sour sauce" line, for instance, so he'll persist. Pushed RTJ to the top of my queue, I've a hankering for some good rap.

I feel like Play by Play should be massive by now. It's one of those songs that has a good enough catchy chorus to really break out. I like Kanye's but feel there's parts of it that seem rushed, or certainly in need of a rewrite. Wouldn't think it's the same old; I can't think of anything he's done with such industrial sounding drums, for instance. First albums had the soul kits, 808s with drum machines and the African drumming on Love Lockdown then MBDTF was all over the place. I definitely think Yeezus is better than Watch The Throne and Cruel Summer.

You kept that quiet! Congratulations, mate. And remember, I have a lovely unisex name in case you actually realise it's a lass, somehow.

I'm formulating a theory that 10 songs is the perfect number for a pop album

I'm well aware, Gene, darling. I've heard more music from the late 1960s than is probably healthy. The S/T is from 66 btw, you're thinking of 5000 Spirits. Still on a 2013 listening binge: Autre ne Veut - Anxiety: Think this could be up Chez' street; very good pop music and very 80s without falling into the trap of ripping off the Drive soundtrack. Inc. - No World: Reminds me of The Weeknd's more stripped-back moments. An excellent midnight album. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold: Brilliant. Reminds me of Sonic Youth, New York Dolls, X and The Ramones. Some very tight songwriting. Villagers - Awayland: Irish indie-folk but with some interesting production choices and times where it threatens to get too bombastic for its own good. Worth a listen for the more simplistic tracks; the man is capable of writing some good stuff. Didn't like A$AP Rocky and yet to listen to the EL-P and Killer Mike's album but is there any hip-hop I should be adding to my list?

I was sat, half cut on my sofa, thoroughly enjoying it, sorry. The Olympics are always a source of personal achievements that are basically incomprehensible to me because I'm a right lazy bastard, basically. Anyone that devotes that much time to a sport and becomes, literally, the best in the world at it, deserves everything they get in terms of accomplishment.

"That kid"

There's no way you spend that much time toying with food before launching it into your trap.

Still waiting to hear where Fish does his shopping after slagging Tesco tbh

I do my shopping in Home Bargains because I like eating 39p risottos so you people have NO idea what it's like to be faced with true supermarket idiots. The worst you get is middle class people struggling to get their polenta in scanned, I've got to work round people shovelling cheap bottles of Peroni into their baskets and eating Discos

Definitely. The whole point of the site was to put themselves out there as much as possible so you got a sense of their opinions in order to further inform your gaming purchases so, with the degree they made themselves available on the site and social media, I'd say only his close friends and family "know" him better. The discussion about his Pac Man machines crushing him to death and Jeff asking if his hands still work so he can play one last game with him made me laugh so hard just 10 minutes ago and I think that's their sense of humour summed up. If you are in any way into video games, you really should get onto that website and dig into their best videos and podcasts because it's a really great group of clever, funny people having the time of their life and I hope they can continue with it.

Remy for £6 million + Steven Taylor says The Mirror

Ryan Davis of gaming site Giant Bomb. I follow them as well, and have done for a long time now, and I have the same sadness that it's happened. As you say, the event is so awful but it's especially compounded by the fact that GB is a site that you really follow for the personalities of the staff more than anything else, they're fairly open about their own lives and the 5 of them are clearly good friends. So, for the past few months, you've had the guy talking about planning his wedding (with real enthusiasm), then tweeting (along with the others) about it and how it was great and then 4 days later, the man is dead. I think it's a combination of the site being so focused on the personalities and the length of time you've been around them so it feels like you "know" them and the simple fact that he was clearly a good person, happy with his job, his life, his wife and his friends and has died far too young. It's completely normal.

The internet not letting bad jokes die, I see.