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Thoroughly looking forward to this. Should be a belter.

Challengers over Twin Cinema or Mass Romantic? I love The New Pornographers but I was kind of disappointed with Challengers.

Yeah, never really gotten into Twin Cinema or Mass Romantic. Then again, I came to them after Challengers, so who knows, I may change my mind as the years go by. But as it stands, Challengers is my New Pornos album of choice.

Favourite 18 of the last decade (in no particular order):

Ben Folds - Rocking The Suburbs

The Divine Comedy - Regeneration

Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Rfufs Wainwright - Want

Camille - Le Fil

Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake its Morning

Sufjan Stevens - Come on Feel the Illinoise

Brendan Benson - Alternative to Love

The Pearlfishers - Up With the Larks

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News

The New Pornographers - Challengers

Fancey - Schmancey

Field Music- Tones of Town

School of Language - Sea From Shore

The Week That Was - The Week That Was

Sounds like a grand way to spend a Saturday evening. Hopefully get myself down to it.

Excellent stuff. About time someone such as yourself was kicking it up in Aberdeen. If I had the time, and a little more experience of old school jazz I'd most definitely offer my services as a pianist. Hope the search goes well.

Lovely jubbly.

Do we know who the chap taking all the photos was?

Absolutely brilliant program. Malcolm Tucker is a work of genius. Not seen tonights episode yet, but shall catch up on iPlayer.

'Happy Birthday C*nt'

Fantastic.

Some really terrible rhymes there, biker and like her eurgh. Maybe it sounds better when you hear it, sometimes difficult to put these things in context without the music.

Ha, yeah, not going to try pass that off as anything other than clutching at straws, but hey. Aye, sometimes the music can serve to hide terrible rhymes, sometimes not.

Buena Vista

Night falls ona whirlwind romance

Lost in the Americas with a girl with two left feet.

Who would've thought that I'd be the dancer,

The helpless romantic falling down the street.

Cuba's got a nice street lit feel,

Miles away from that renegade biker.

Castro, had the right idea no where else seems so real,

I'm lost in the Americas with a girl like her.

But she don't love me,

She lives for the Buena Vista Social Club,

Ry Cooder flows through her head,

and she sees her love for Cuba in everything she read.

I sat by a girl in a red dress,

Asked if she would like a drink.

She said that she was already spoken for

Deluded she sat, waiting for Ry Cooder or

Any member of the Buena Vista Social Club,

She had more chance with an audience with Fidel.

But still she turned me down,

Just on the offchance Ry Cooder would stroll in and buy her round

Got a couple newly recorded tunes up on myspace. Part big silly pop, part not no so big silly pop.

Belloc’s Bar on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads

Have a listen. If you fancy it, you might just enjoy yourself.

In the new Cineworld by any chance? I've only watched one film in there and I will only be going back to see films rated 18, or at the very least, late night showings.

The only movie I've seen there so far was Harry Brown. Nicely, I believe I was the youngest there by about 10 years or so, and the majority of the audience were pensioners. They're the folks you want in your audience if you want peace and quiet.

Saw 'Men Who Stare at Goats' last week. Didn't find it hilarious, but did enjoy it. The humour is at times incredibly dry, which was great as far as I was concerned, but probably one of the reasons the few other people in the cinema didn't really ever laugh. The jokes aren't delivered in any way to suggest they are actually jokes, but if you like that kind of comedy, its definitely worth a watch.

Also, Walt Disney and Jesus Christ are mentioned in the same breath. Which was fantastic.

Last night went to see Harry Brown. Very good movie indeed. Not so much the story, which is relatively unoriginal, but just how the movie runs and looks. Very slow burning for the first section, but never feels like it drags. Really works on emphasising just how drak and desolate the lives of some of the people in these estates are. Also, one of the most brutal movies I've seen in quite a while.

Not a nice movie by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly a very entertaining one.

C'mon people, make it ten and put it in order!!

Mines in order, just couldn't make it past 6. Still got a month and a bit mind.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men

Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend

Decemberists - Hazards of Love

The Wildhearts - Chutzpah!

Ben Folds - Ben Folds Presents University A Capella

The Lewis Duckworth Method - The Lewis Duckworth Method

These are pretty much the only albums I got this year that I think much of. I can't even make up a top 7. Shocking.

This post is making me do this face:

Stu-fucking-pendous.

That wee poonum just made laugh my ass off. Best. Baby-face. Ever. Well done sir.

Not a band as of yet, but bassist and guitarist/pianist looking for a drummer and a second guitarist (lead/main). Some tunes rock, some tunes more Jellyfish inspired piano pop. As a whole mind, not really sure who its most similar to or influenced by, but favourite bands include, Divine Comedy, Ben Folds (Five), XTC, Brendan Benson, Weezer, Randy Newman, The Wildhearts...essentially just lots of pop bands.

If that sounds even remotely interesting, theres three tunes up on Belloc’s Bar on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads if you want to have a listen

More will be going up over the next wee while as the bassist and I record some more demos.

So if you like what you hear and possibly fancy jumping onboard drop me a pm or such.

Cheers, D

Up (in 3d). It was fantastic!! Shed a tear after 20mins. The beginning was so moving and the ending was lovely too. Amazing colours on the screen. Everyone should go see it!

Saw this yesterday. Absolutely brilliant. Getting to the stage now where you go into a PIXAR movie and can be guaranteed a great movie. And your right about the tears. Possibly the saddest and most heartfelt PIXAR to date. Though probably because it actually had to do with real people and not fish, robots, superheros or toys.

Though, going to see it during the day, during the holidays, was definitely a bad move. Kids are becoming increasingly annoying. Noisy little bastards. Though serves me right I suppose.

Saw Coraline as well. Got the 3D/2D dvd. Despite 3D being pretty pish in your own house the movie was pretty good. Nice and dark. Not as good as a lot of people had reviewed it, but still definitely worth a watch.

I thought I was about to be able to go to another Funk Machine night. Sadly not. Blame weddings and such other pish.

Whats happening after October chief? Hopefully I'll get down to one again eventually.

Yip, that'll be the one. Cheers mate. Shall get it soon.

Theres an anime movie I've been trying to get hold of for a while after seeing a trailer for it. Sadly, I forget the title.

Its about Japan becoming the most advanced nation in the world and deciding to close themselves off from the rest of the world for a few decades.

Then after about 20 years the open themselves up. I think to blow all the other cunts off the face of the earth or something along those lines.

It possibly has Tokyo in the title, but not sure at all.

Any help would be great.

Cheers.

The bit near the end of 'Last Goodbye' by Jeff Buckley when he sings 'Did you say, no this can't happen to me? Did you rush to the phone to call?'

Utterly sublime.

Do The Right Thing Absolutely brilliant. Great performances from pretty much all involved, Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee (has she always been old or is she just exceptionally old now?), John Turturro, and Spike Lees pretty damn good too.

Just recently bought a Spike Lee collection with the only one of his I'd seen previously being Inside Man. Do The RIght Thing is a must. Keeps your attention start to finish. And has what is now, one of my favourite scenes in a movie.

All three Ben Folds Five records are great.

Can't fault that.

100% agreed, it's an instant classic.

The guy who plays Vickers, if there's any justice in the world, should get an Oscar. Hadn't realised it was improvised (obviously the bits with Christopher the Prawn aren't improv though?!), the phonecalls to his (Vickers') wife are just heart-breaking. The mothership over the city is just so fucking creepy. The CGI is amazing, the alien weapons brutal as fuck. Just pure fucking awesomeness in 1 hour and a half

Was just reading about it again, and aparrently, all scenes with Wickus, Sharlto Copely ad-libbed all his lines. So aye, his half of the scenes with Christopher Johnson were improvised an'aw. The man isn't even an established actor, this is his first actual gig. He's a fucking legend.