I like Dear Science, but Cooke Mountain is such an incredible record. Just this massive mess of ideas. One of those albums where I first put it on, and while I didn't immediately dig every song on first listen, I could still feel how much ambition had gone into it.

Wayne's said he just did acid once, didn't he?

I know nothing about football
Loved the Damned United though. And no love for Timothy Spall?

Soul II Soul are awesome man

It's weird, I usually think the av club has some really fucking interesting commenters. Particularly in film comments, some of the comments read like articles. But any kind of dance music and you get a bunch of the funniest, most reactionary responses ever. Kind of stuff you'd expect if someone started a house thread…

Dude, healthcare absolutely has to be a right. I think people in the UK have a skewed idea of how bad US healthcare actually is because people are horrified by the (probably 1 in a million) cases where treatment is refused, just because it seems so crazy that someone could have a life-threatening illness, and have…

I' m from the UK, and one of the worst things about all the furore that got stirred up over here when the neocons started ragging on the NHS is that it polarised the debate in the worst possible way, like it got split into "NHS IS THE BETS THING EVAR!" or "THE NHS SUX!".

Tired of Sex reaches a whole new level of pathos if you imagine it's being sung by Nikki Sixx circa 1985

The Daily Mail's an eeeevil paper, but that wasn't a totally terrible article. Which kind of unsettled me. Luckily the main DM site page has one article about illegal immigrants, and another about how political correctness has gone fucked in the head, so balance has been restored.

"Toby, great to meet you, have a seat. Right no more of the fucking Oxbridge pleasantries"

Just finished Oona King's diaries, and Alistair Campbell sounds like a scary motherfucker.

Alistair Campbell's so unbothered by the fact that everyone thinks Malcolm Tucker's based on him, that when In the Loop opened in the UK he wrote about 5 articles for different broadsheets saying how little he was bothered, and singling out some incredibly hurtful parts of the movie that he was especially not bothered…

Dude, I've just gone through that post, and if you take out the swearing and the libertarian 'tude, all I can see is:

Yeah, you've read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch -

I bet everyone gets free TiVo in Denmark.

The weird thing is they're both really smart, but they don't seem to get that their idea of an ideal society is as fucked up, utopian and doomed as Pol Pot's ideas about rural collectivism.

The implication seemed to be lots of toll booths.

Some of the stuff I've asked my libertarian friends about

Some of my friends have gotten bigtime into libertarianism the last few years.

*pop punk band.