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Getting some of the back story between Gus and the cartel was marvelous to see. This show builds steam from episode 1 to 13 like no other show I've ever seen.

Another great episode this week, highlights for me being Jesse at the support group and Hank's scene at the end. It's amazing how Breaking Bad always manages to keep me on the edge of my seat and keep my excitement going week after week.

Jesse in group one of of Aaron Paul's best moments of the series. As for being on the edge of my seat, no show has ever increased my heart rate like this show has. It's suspense at it's best, as to me, they give away just enough each week to not frustrate you but instead they keep you coming back for more.

I highly doubt Fabregas was only on £60,000 a week. I reckon he was in the £95,000-£100,0000 range.

Not that it means anything but FM has RVP on £80,000 and Cesc at £110,000.

I think Cesc was definitely around the £90,000 range, as what was proposed to Nasri was supposed to match or be close to matching Cesc's.

It took longer than I thought it would, but I've finally fallen deeply in love with Radiohead's 'The King of Limbs'. "Codex" is one of the main reasons.

El Ten Eleven.

I've never done more work/studying to any other music. The self-titled is brilliant.

I've always found the insertion of $ or £ signs into players' names quite funny. The level of bitterness it displays is astonishing.

As an Arsenal supporter, I'm not so much bitter as I am just annoyed at the whole situation. To go to City and have them double what we offered and say it's not about money is just silly. It's okay to say you want to win and you want to get paid.

I thought Arsenal's highest wage used to be 60,000 (which Fabregas was on)

Could've sworn they said Nasri was on 90k? Or was that what they'd offered him?

Na$ri was offered 90,000. However, he just wants to win trophies...

Best line:

"I'm the one protecting this family from the person protecting this family."

Mine was...

"I am the one who knocks."

1. Richard Pryor

2. George Carlin

3. Mitch Hedberg

4. Steven Wright

5. Jerry Seinfeld

6. Eddie Murphy

7. Lewis Black

8. Jim Gaffigan

9. Zach Galifianakis

10. Daniel Tosh

Thrown together pretty fast, if anything would change it would just be the order.

I was lucky enough to see Canadian space-rock group, Do Make Say Think, last night. Incredible. Greatest show I've ever been to.

While I would much rather have another Get Up Kids record, I'm a fan of The New Amsterdams and loved the Worse For Wear EP, but I haven't heard the full album yet. Without a doubt, a high recommendation.

"Worse For The Wear" is a actually an LP, New Amsterdams albums just tend to be suspiciously short (Just clocking in over the half hour...somtimes under I believe as well). It had easily their catchiest material, very much straight up piano rock, acousic-ness kind of thing. They're getting a bit more...'stylish', cool sound...I dunno...I can't describe it properly, now. And the new album (Which has had ZERO hype...as it's released on their own label, I literally found out about it by accident).

I believe "At The Feet Of My Rival" is their first CD to break the 35-minute mark (have 6 albums). Clocking in at around 44-minutes.

And yeah, I too would love another Get Up Kids album. "Guilt Show" was really fucking good. 'Different'...but really good. Really wasn't really a fan of "On A Wire" though. And the first two albums were classics.

While I would much rather have another Get Up Kids record, I'm a fan of The New Amsterdams and loved the Worse For Wear EP, but I haven't heard the full album yet. Without a doubt, a high recommendation.

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I've been on a fucking huge A Silver Mt. Zion trip lately, and GY!BE are one of my favourite bands out there, especially for "Dead Flag Blues". I was thinking of making a post-rock thread myself the other day.

If you haven't already, check out "Hex" by Earth...normally Earth are ridiculously heavy drone, but Hex is completely different...no distortion, just epic soundscapes. Not quite on the level of a Zion or a Godspeed, but beautiful desolate music all the same, which I can't recommend enough.

The drone link continues, as I have to recommend everything off "Altar" by SunnO))) & Boris which, as much as I love both bands, I think is the best work either have done. Most notable are "The Sinking Belle", which is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in years, and "N.L.T." which for a song played on two instruments (gong and upright bass) is downright spooky, and stunning.

One criminally under-rated band which, while not post-rock, should appeal to you if you have similar sensibilities to me (which a love for instrumental and post-rock music suggests) is Bohren & Der Club Of Gore. They started out as a hardcore band, but since the late '90s they've been "doom jazz"....they sound like a really fucking sinister film noir soundtrack. I especially recommend "Prowler" but, really, throw "doom jazz" in to last.fm, or just get anything by them, it's all fantastic stuff.

That does suck.

At least they gave us some good music, though.

Emo is too confusing IMO, as way back in 2002 in NOW 52 or whatever's liner notes, they called Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" emo. Then I always percieved shouty, dark "i wanna kill myself" shit as emo. BUt when I heard some of the bands that a friend was into that were 'emo', it was acts like Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy, which to me, sound really poppy. So, yeah, who knows lol.

Also, most 'emo' bands tend to have random or 'funny' names for songs and the band itself, a la Panic!, Cute Is What We Aim for etc.

If anyone thinks I'm totally off, well, good for you lol, but that's what I percieve emo as through that friend, and I'm not one who listens to those kinds of bands, I prefer myself a bit of grunge.

CORRECTION: According to tags on last.fm, everything is emo, so well, debate sorted:p.

Jesu, High On Fire, Pelican, Boris, Sunn O))), Porcupine Tree, Between The Buried & Me, Omar a. Rodriguez-Lopez...

Sunny Day Real Estate, Get Up Kids, American Football will always be emo to me.

Any fans of post rock, instrumental or experimental music? Such bands as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 65daysofstatic, A Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Mono, Mogwai and From Monument To Masses?

Emo's simply a branch of hardcore punk that focuses on the more emotive side of the genre. While you've got bands like Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Germs etc. singing and writing music about getting wasted and fucking shit up you've got bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace (first wave stuff) that are writing about more personal things rather than the sex, violence et al that was prevalent in the hardcore scene at the time.

Just to get an idea of what I'm talking about check out Rites of Spring, Embrace, Sunny Day Real Estate, the Get Up Kids, and Husker Du.

And no, I wouldn't consider Evanescence to be emo. Listening to their stuff I don't see any influence or basis in the emo genre - like DMN said it's more of a modern alt-rock vibe.

As far as The Ramones, I think they made it far more accessible. A wider audience was able to hear their music, especially younger kids who were looking for something to latch onto and rebel against.

During the time MC5 was active, 1962-1974, the landscape was just being set for what the Ramones did. The time and style that the Ramones used is what made it more accessible, even though bands like MC5 paved the way.

Eric Crouch, haha. They'll ask him to play WR and he'll storm off back to Canada, if he ever went there to start.

28 Days Later is one of my favorite ever, I still haven't seen 28 Weeks Later though. At first I was sure it wasn't going to be as good as the first, however the more I hear about it, the more I think it could be just as good and want to see it.

^^^^Is the main theme from the first one used in the second also? "East Hastings" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor? My favorite band and an incredible song.

Made using Illustrator, needed one for my diary I'm doing so I whipped up a quick one. I had no idea what to do with the text though.