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Thanks. The song doesn't really sound like the kind of music we normally make, we started somewhere in the Cramps mold but ended up going in this direction. It's just a shame we're working with iphones which don't really pick up the entirity of the guitar. Will give Bowery Electric a listen, I hadn't heard of them before.

I'm going to hijack the thread for my own person gain, although this does fall under the banner of new music for 2013. My band have finally gone on indefinite hiatus, pending the arrival of the child of our singer/bassist and drummer - we're only a 3 piece, so I'm feeling very left out. With that in mind we decided to finally record something as a last hurrah. It's still somewhat amateur, but tops the quality of anything else we previously put out. So here's our free single should you care to give it a listen here, I can't see how to embed it so: http://clickybones.bandcamp.com/

This morning, mostly this: I like the whole Coastal Grooves album, but I like this track more than all of the others combined. Always have.

I watched the latest Big Bang Theory episodes through the prism of the comments that have built up in this thread. Can't stand Penny anymore.

I find the young-dickhead crowd means I tend to have to be at gigs early and be front row (a bit off centre too), or I arrive late and sit or stand towards the back and have a drink. Depends on how much I like the band, but either way it means I can largely remove myself from the annoyance of everyone else. There have been a few times lately, while stood in the midst of a crush of young people waiting for a band to come on stage, that I somewhat immaturely question whether I can really like a band that the moron next to me seems to enjoy so much. I think it's just getting old.

Station to Station is actually one of the ones I would like. I forgot about that. This morning's commute was soundtracked by the second MGMT album Congratulations, which I've been listening to for a few commutes in a row now. I didn't really like the first album, I'm not much of a synth-y person for the most part, but the second album has really grown on me and it might be a few days before I go on to something else. A number of reviews weirdly made it sound like MGMT had gone far off the beaten track and recorded some kind of unlistenable psychedlic odessy. While I was slightly disappointed to see that this was not the case, there's a lot of good songs on it and a few poppy ones that could've been singles (I don't know if they did release any in the end). That and I've been listening to the final version of my own band's single, which will be downloadable for nowt soon.

The current list, as far as I can recall without looking at them is: Man Who Sold The World Hunky Dory Ziggy Stardust Aladdin Sane Low Heroes, and there might be one more. There are others I wouldn't mind if they were at a cheap price, but not that I'd actively seek out, partly because we have the digital files and partly because we're running out of shelving for our records. Ziggy Stardust and Man Who Sold The World tend to be the ones that are part of our weekly rotation. Either of those or Loaded by Velvet Underground seem to be on at a dispropotional rate. Haven't got around to The Next Day yet, still a bit in between on the 2 new tracks I've heard so far and I'm almost worried to hear it and not like it. Any brief review you'd care to give on the album?

Last weekend's record shopping was around Hanbury Street, just off of Oxford Street, the haul including reasonably priced copies of Aladdin Sane by Bowie, the only one missing from our house's collection of Bowie albums (or rather the Bowie albums we would like to own). Also picked up Piper At The Gates Of Dawn by Pink Floyd and the Madcap Laughs by Syd Barrett. And from elsewhere a copy of Lonerism by Tame Impala, all of which my wife and I liked beforehand and will probably be on rotation for quite a while - as we're moving house all other records have been packed away. m b v arrived by mail on last Saturday, but I haven't got round to giving that a proper listen, just bits on my commute to and from work. That'll probably be one for when we settle down and have more time on our hands than we do right now. As for a track recommendation from the above bunch, I'll go with this one:

Margaret Thompson - née Schroder and any other names she's gone under - of Boardwalk Empire. The women's rights and education stuff is something I actually have an interest in, however I end up failing to care about anything this character does.

I wish I could find a copy of Pro Evo 4 and a console to play it on. I have neither anymore. Arsenal.com used to be regularly updated with tales of how Lupoli and Bendtner had scored 1,000 goals in their youth and reserve team careers. He actually looked a decent enough player when I saw him live in the League Cup and scored a couple. But then so did Kerrea Gilbert once. And Quincy Owusu-Abeyie.

There aren't many that I tend to forget for Arsenal, but there are a bunch of youth players who briefly graced the League Cup teams whose names I come across and think "Oh yeah, I haven't thought about Arturo Lupoli in about 5 years", or "Paola Vernazza, that was the guy London news reported as being Arsenal's next big local lad-turned star in the late 90s". Looking through the Arsenal database Jerome Thomas I do forget. And David Grodin, as briefly as his spell was. Alan Ball too. But then I wasn't really around at the time so his white boots didn't quite burn in the memory as they might've for a generation or two before me. Otherwise I pride myself on being able to recall the Kaba Diawara's and Nelson Vivas' of Arsenal past.

Jack White at Alexandra Palace had the novelty of being in walking distance of my house. It also had the downside of being at Alexandra Palace, which really isn't a venue I like. In fact unless I can get a good seat or arrive early enough after work to be front row for a band I really like, I've just been sticking to smaller gigs. Which has consisted of: Novella at Scala, supporting Toy. Who were both very good - I'm coming around on Toy after being somewhat unmoved by it all the first few times I saw them. Heavy Bunny - featuring Rhys Webb of the Horrors on vocals and bass - as a one-off New Year's gig: My friend recently recorded and released his own independent solo album as The Haunted Isles, which has led to a few shows and various recommendations to people: And more Novella, my favourite new band (well, over the last couple of years) playing in my nearest record shop. That was better than Alexandra Palace: So there, have some pictures you didn't ask to see and hearty recommendations all round for the above bands.

After honeymooning in Tennessee mostly so we could shop at Third Man Records, it was fun to come home and see Jack White had announced a gig at Alexandra Palace, right next to where I live. And it's supported by The Kills, my wife's favourite band. We promptly ordered tickets, gig's in November.

I had this with Coventry in a game with Plymouth late in the season as the 2 clubs battled for promotion. I beat them in the game, but had 5 or 6 players injured, all with 3-4 week minimum absences, all key players for me, which eventually saw them get automatic promotion over us. We went up in the end through the play-offs, in the Championship next season against I set my tackling to hard but didn't quite get the Leeds-Derby level of vengeful violence I was hoping for.

I don't think it was ever a genuine quiz.

We were vetoed on Poupee de cire, apparently French people don't think much of it. France Gall has a few other contributions to the list though.

I like a bit of French, however my sound is broken so I shall have a listen this evening. We've been putting the final touches to our English/French wedding playlist, so will throw a couple of songs at you. France Gall - this one being pretty much the first track we put on the playlist. Francoise Hardy - I like Francoise. She's next to Debbie Harry on my list of people who should've died before they got old because to look at their old faces next to their perfect young faces makes me sad.

My memory of the Hurricanes was also that one player would have a personal crisis, return mid-way through the game with the score at 0-2 and score a hat-trick to win the game. I feel like that happened every week, but Wikipedia says there were 5 series, surely it can't have repeated that much?

I don't know what all of the official versions are, so I've made them links to the wikipedia pages. And if any of these are family and not children's shows, then I'm not sure I follow... 1. ThunderCats I remember having the Exodus video - amongst many others - which was on daily repeat. It had a black case, did the origin story and felt really long to me as a kid, much longer than other cartoons. It's what the 5 or 6 year old me thought an epic was. It probably still is. 2. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles The other longstanding favourite of mine in my youth, I'm told my parents were the type who would queue outside toyshops to get me the set of all 4 turtles for Christmas - or I was annoying enough to force them. 3. Kenan & Kel As much as I liked this one, it goes higher because during a family holiday to Florida I saw an episode being filmed in which Kenan teaches Kel to drive. Or the other way around, I forget. We weren't in the audience, but there was a walk-way above them where we could see it for a while. Kel dropped the screw in the tuna etc. 4. M.A.S.K. Same with the Turtles, I loved the show but this was as much about the toys. I had some of the cars and Matt Trakker's truck, but mostly I just made the cast of MASK wrestle or play football. Another with a good theme song, which was clearly very important to me. 5. Doug While sat indoors all weekend watching Nickelodeon I would be hoping for Kenan & Kel or Doug to be up next. 6. Ghostbusters I don't recall ever seeing this on TV, but I had a couple of VHSs that I watched over and over. 7. Clarissa Explains It All Introspective, self-obsessed young person, a bit like Doug really - seemed to draw me in. I watched as much Sabrina, but didn't want to include both. This was slightly more favoured. 8. Inspector Gadget I used to watch a lot of this with my brother. I just found out from my French wife they had it in France too, we were comparing what the go-go gadgets things were called in our respective languages. 9. Hey Arnold Another kind of do-good mopey introvert, the template for good TV, even for kids. 10. The Hurricanes It was rubbish, I knew that. But it was a cartoon about football. Football! Others worth a mention: Finders Keepers and Art Attack for Neil Buchanan goodness. Fun House for the mullet. I had a Top Cat video that I absolutely wore out, but I just don't like it now and don't see what I ever saw in that. I liked the Spiderman, X-Men and Batman series, but I rarely got to see them and they weren't as idolised as those above. I should've found a place for Art Attack. And I hated Sister Sister to begin with but sat through so many double bills on Nickelodeon and think I secretly liked it.

My brother buys all of the commemorative stamps that are released following sports events, he still believes they will be the making of his fortune someday. I disagree. Still I'm sure I'll see them in person when he has one. Went to the basketball yesterday, the arena was good, really enjoyed the whole of the Olympic Park actually - would love to go again. And the French women won, which is why we went. Angola had an adorable tiny little basketball player, who turned out to be quite aggressive. That seemed to be an Angolan trait as they charged the Chinese and left one with her head bouncing off the floor. Good fun.

But it's going to be silver or bronze. New Zealand's ride isn't going to well at the moment though, so hopefully it's going to be silver. Edit: bloody Swedes doing well, medals not guaranteed apparently.

Went down to the Olympic Park just to get my tickets from the box office, was startled to see I've made the full transition to not-sure-I-care to ridiculously-excited for the Olympics. Ready for tomorrow morning. Not sure we've got many GB prospects for medals today, do we? Equestrian team are going well though, hopefully that continues today.

With regards to getting back into Gotham from the prison: I haven't seen Batman Begins since it was out in cinema, but as part of his training didn't Bruce Wayne spend years learning how to survive on nothing and travel around unnoticed?

Felt somewhat inevitable that the more complicated dives would see them fall apart, although it was fun to see GB leading the diving charts after the first 2. This is my first day of following by text and the occasional live stream on the work computer when there's something I desperately want to see. I miss 20+ channels of Olympics. Off to the basketball Wednesday morning to support my adopted country France with the wife, still hoping to find a ticket for something GB-related before the Games are done. Edit: Also getting a bit impatient for that first gold, Adlington in the 800m, rowing finals and the next lot of cycling can't come soon enough.

This guy it seems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Biton I do not like Jenkinson at all. There are youth/reserve players at Arsenal I'd have given a trial in the first team squad before signing him, but I suppose time playing at this age can only do him good.