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This 'n' That


1. Watching 24 is like eating Pringles. You watch one...then you have to watch another, then another and so on. The only thing that stops you watching another is that if you watch that one more then you know you're going to want to watch the one after that too. And you know, there's work tomorrow and stuff and it's nearly 11.30...oh go on then. Just one more.
2. Press Gang. Started watching the first series. It's 16 years old! Snappy writing even from the first episode. Spike (where is he now...theatre?) & Linda (Argos adverts) = Sam & Diane = quick fire arguments. My God but the Linda Day character is annoying but suppose that's the point. Hey, look, there's Phil's girlfriend from Eastenders. Isn't Knightmare on next.
3. Library today = Kirsty MacColl:From Croydon To Cube - An Anthology...Mogwai:Young Team...The Faces:Five Guys Walk Into A Bar(Box Set) and a book of Annie Liebowitz photos.
4. It's always without fail around about April/May that the interesting new releases start flooding rather than trickling out, this week being a case in point...Ben Folds:Songs For Silverman...Eels:Blinking Lights And Other Revelations(haven't bought anything by them since I got their first LP on import. This new one is a double (33 tracks) and therefore appeals to my previously stated delight in sprawlingly overly ambitious double albums. 7 years in the making, inspired by death and suicide, guest appearances by Tom Waits, Peter Buck and John Sebastian...Stereolab:Oscillons From The Anti-Sun (3CD's and one DVD..comp of EP tracks). How can you go wrong with 3 CD's of prime period 'Lab with a DVD of promos and TV appearance and all for only £13. Answer: You can't.
Also, The Fall: Peel Sessions box set. May have to buy this at some point. Don't know why. Just a kurious oranj I suppose.
5. The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers:Good film, great performance, one messed up bastard of a man. You don't really come out liking him at the end. Which is a shame.
6. Restless Natives: Out on DVD at last. Yay!

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SoTT Touches Down


It was the tablecloth right enough at the post office but thankfully the CD's arrived too. The neighbour had taken them in. Thanks to a speedy work computer they're all ripped to mp3 now and the 8 or 9 discs I need to fit them all onto will burn in about 2 minutes each on my speedy work computer. Just need to take them home to my not as speedy home computer and get typing on those tracklistings.

Must remember to rate as I go because realistically most of these comps will get one listen only and I need some way to remember what is worth going back to. If I can do that then I can have a nice tidy playlist at the end with all the 4 and 5 rated songs (if there are any). I did this with a previous SoTT and it worked pretty well although it means I have to make snap judges after hearing something once which isn't always the best, sometimes you have to give songs time to grow on you. The scale of this makes this unrealistic though. I'll be erring on the high side and then I can always downgrade later.

Isn't it terrible the way that this sounds like some arduous task that I have to wade through instead of a bonanza of fun new music to listen to? I suppose I'm just concerned about missing something cool and if I don't do it in this regimented way then I will miss things. I'm sure I'll enjoy it too.

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SoTTing iD3 tags


There was a note from the postman through the door yesterday so I'm hoping that was my SoTT Cd's but I bet it was just a table cloth from DK :-(. The thought of 49 CD's is horribly daunting not least because I have to type all the tracklistings into iTunes. I've made a small dent in this with my previous SoTT's over the last couple of week but there are still about 1918 tracks that have to have info added. Insane.

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Rumpty Tumpty Tum


*Cough* *Cough* Check...1....2....Hello...is this thing on...

Hi, still here, been a while but isn't it always between posts. I could post every day to my hearts content but there would still only be 2 people reading this. Maybe I should post a little often rather than a lot less often? Maybe I just shouldn't have a blog?

Anyway, almost all those records I mentioned in my last post I got as you can see from the current listening bar down the side although it's out of date and I'm not really listening to most of them that much just now 'cause I've got a whole pile of other stuff I'm listening to acquired from GR, the library and someone at work - so Nick Cave, Dinosaur Jr, Joni Mitchell, Rough Trade's Counter Culture 03 comp, Steely Dan, New Order, Simple Minds, Of Montreal, M Ward amongst others though I was also listening to Jellyfish this morning for the first time in an age. Also back listening to The Concretes and The Cardigans and Cody Chesnutt.

Digging those C's.

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