See, I used to hate him, but years of dislike were destroyed within the first five minutes of a a tv interview with Jonathan Ross on the bbc. Dude is ridiculously fast on his feet.

Yeah, I think the mandate has come down, EITS are no longer cool to like. You can still wear their t-shirts, but ideally they'd be tour shirts from 2004 or earlier.

Sponsorship's really common with big tours, isn't it? To offset the risk of no one coming and suddenly owing millions of dollars etc. So it's not newsworthy that they have a sponsor, just that the sponsor is Apple's big rival in the yuppy phone market. U2 made enough money to cover their costs on the second date of…

There's an extract in a Jack Kerouac I haven't actually read (I've failed with so many Kerouac novels: Dharma Bums, Big Sur. Visions of Cody! God, I've failed with that one three times. So many dreadful, tedious visions of Cody).

I'm glad Tasha's doing Let The Right One In, really want some perspective on it. Someone bought it for me recently, and I just didn't go for it. Not so much the plot, just seemed really clumsily written, which could be the writing or the translation.

Yes, cover the Handsome Family. They were my gateway group. Gateway to Lambchop, Calexico, Neko Case, Rough Trade country compilations, and a couple of Johnny Cash/Hank Williams cds. Um.

Maybe someone could make a contentious post about cultural appropriation to kick things off?