NJS

The strange thiing is I've always rationalised my not getting The Office as down to it being too true to life whereas I love Phoenix Nights which certainly has the same "problem". I'd agree that ir would be better if a new series didn't happen.

I'd agree about reccomending Mazzy Star, particularly for Hope Sandoval's voice, not as country mind (though on the odd song i can perhaps see what you mean, the odd one is bluesey as well, but definitely worth a listen! They are usually categorised as "dream pop" which also covers other bands I adore like Belly. However I think Mazzy Star fall into my particular take on country although admittedly with a bluesy touch as well - a niche also occupied in my tastes by early Texas. Of course Hope also occupies a place in my pantheon of Godesses as well.

I often think the "success" of Hall and Shepherd was more by luck than judgement - mainly the appointments of Keegan and Robson. I think there were cock-ups from the start like the first Keegan walkout and continuing through things like the Baggio farce and summer of Bowyer. I don't doubt Shepherd does want us to succeed and would do the business in the short term (if Shearer works out) but I don't think its due to any underlying competence. I think I'd prefer a baggageless option.

Emmylou Harris - the pure bluegrass is a bit too much for me but some of her later stuff is quality. If you want to stretch the definition then two massive favourites of mine are Mazzy Star and Rilo Kiley - not strictly country but tinged with a bit.

One tasteless thing I saw the other day - some press conference with his Dad where he plugged the record company he'd (his Dad) set up - I don't know the full story of Michael's supposedly miserable childhood but his Dad looked like slime based on what I saw.

I can't get my head around the sudden record sales which I noticed on the HMV site - surely anyone who likes his music would already own Thriller, Bad etc and likewise people like me aren't suddenly going to think it's good so who's buying albums now?

I think you can download viewers from MS which might allow you to do a "save as".

But the IUPAC standard is that metals should have an "ium" on the end to indicate the positive ions they produce - obviously some very basic metals were named before the standards. Having said that I have also read that yanks originally discovered/named it with an "um" at the end.

If you want to know who Green Day's "Fathers" are listen to Stiff Little Fingers - who were 70s.

A mate of mine liked them and we sometimes used to listen to that on the way to matches - I always thought they had something but it just wasn't my thing. Frightening scan through "albums of 1989" on Wiki also reveals Disintegration and Doolittle.

As .com implies - expect references to Ponteland/Woolsington airport.

My honest opinion is that he wasn't a full-on child rapist but some of the stuff he did with kids was dodgy - a bloke in his 40s showering and/or sleeping with kids even if no fiddling took place is fucked up. Whether that's strictly "illegal" is one for the DAs etc and in that context if I knew my kids were still "intact" I'd be tempted by $20m if I'm being honest - especially considering the strain of trial. Of course if my kids had told me he'd went further then thats something else.

As he was 99% plastic, Michael Jackson will be melted down to make lego - this means that kids will get to play with him for a change.

Many, many crimes against music. I also think he was guilty of at least some other crimes. No loss to me.

First ray of sunshine of the summer for me.

Maybe a half hour walk or you can get a bus which takes 10/15 minutes iirc.

Utrecht is about 30 minustes on the train from Amsterdam (South) - I've been 3 times after meeting a couple of lads when we played PSV in 97 - will probably go again this time.

That's what I was getting at above about how they want to classify as many people as possible by anything "anti-authority" they may subscribe to and keep it in a DB. Football matches were an obvious starting point and as you say the anti-terror BS has allowed it to be extended to all protests.

The charges may have been dropped but I'll bet the coppers were well pleased with the outcome - a chance to act tough and especially the 4 days inside.

Same here - as far as I can see he dliberately took it easy coming back for us so he'd be fresh for the world cup - I know it ultimately cost us as well but I can't help feeling his knee injury was karma. When I read the .com stuff I thought it was a bit strong but apart from fully siding with Gemmill on the Owen/Martins war, I think the criticism is justified - I think his obvious "I wish I wasn't here" is the crux of the matter.

If the bloke has a family, surely a family car which is what he described it as is fair enough? Despite who he is I can't imagine any wife would be happy to have the bairns driven around in something stupid.

I got an email from them last night accepting my cancellation but trying to change my mind with some deals. Funny thing was that along with shite I have less than zero interest in like rugby and boxing they referred to "top flight football" - I suppose they mean the SPL and the Jorman/French leagues but I can't imagine them surviving on that.

I think that what that was designed for but using it on people asking for a copper's ID when the copper wasn't doing anything is taking the piss.

I kept flicking over to that during the ad breaks of something else - will watch it tonight.

Those women are members of FITwatch - a group spefically set up to monitor those coppers whose business it is to provide intelligence on protests so you could say they are asking for it by definition. Again in two minds I think the pursuit of "Intelligence" on protestors who usually turn out to be rich gap year idiots is generally a waste of time but I can see why they do it. Their utopia would be database of everyone's interests and "pressure points" - I think thats what the internet/email monitoring idea is all about.