In exactly one weeks time, I shall be airborne and on my way to Australia. It's most exciting.

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Songs for 2006, in no particular order. Don't think it's been a particular strong year for albums...

The Arcade Fire - Intervention

From the forthcoming Neon Bible album which I'm looking forward to more than any any other release I can remember from recent years.

Dappled Cities Fly - Within Hours

Best song to come out of Australia this year.

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Oh my. Recorded version of a new Arcade Fire song. Amazing. The church organ! There's a bit of talk about it sounding a bit Bruce Springsteen...and I can see that a bit, even though I'm not very familiar with The Boss.

And after my extreme disappointment on missing out on tickets for the five London dates in Jan/Feb, I'm hapy to see this...

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Most random news story of the day? It's just got to be W orlds Tallest Man Saves Dolphin .

Ingenious.

After previously saying that there might be a link between Zoe's presence and the likelyhood that I'd write something in this thing, it would seem that I was wrong. The truth is that I haven't been feeling quite so emo, and that I've been quite busy doing stuff and seeing people, exactly as I said I would have to ( Read more... )

I was just checking my Gmail, and as with all things Google, there are a number of links to other websites listed to the side of the message, based on keywords found in it.

I was just emptying out all the Viagra-related emails from my Spam folder, and the sponsored link was this recipe for Spam Fajitas. Awesome. Except that they're made from Spam, ( Read more... )

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I'm going to write a proper post soon...but for now here are two lyrics I have heard on my iPod this morning that I like...

"I poured my heart out. It evaporated..."

"You took me out shopping, and all we buy is trainers. As if we ever needed anything to entertain us..."