Japan - he's not bad, but he's not anywhere near as good at writing songs as PJ Harvey is. The music isn't jarringly alien to her style, though - mostly a sort of grungy mutated blues guitar.

Nope. It was the other way around - "Polly Jean Harvey" was supposedly the woman's name, and "PJ Harvey" was the name of her band.

A year or two ago, I spent a week or so tracking down all the PJ Harvey B-sides I could find… There is some AMAZING stuff out there. In my opinion if you put just the b-sides from "to bring you my love" and "is this desire?" together, you'd have an instant classic album.

I think Stories from the etc. etc. is a very good album, er, musically - but I have trouble liking it because most of it's emotionally upbeat.

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I think of these albums with this guy as a way for her to try out weird vocal ideas that wouldn't be good enough to go on her normal albums.

Yes, Sheltie, you are. I think White Chalk is one of the best albums ever recorded.

goon - regarding the phrase "inkling of Thermidor" - Well done.

"d…e…v…o…;…when the…Zooey…comes around…people…could…whip it."

I'll take "Sights that would enrage Dr. Honeydew" for 500, Alex

If this were a British website, we would also be making elaborate puns about that shitty, shitty, SHITTY group they love so much called the manic street preachers. Thank God this isn't a British website.

I opened itunes and clicked "buy this album" probably within 15 seconds of starting to read this review - and I'm usually the kind to mull over my purchases at length.

I haven't heard the track yet - but you have to admit that connecting "batman" and the Jamaican epithet "batty bwoy" is exactly the kind of lunatic brilliance we all love about doom.

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VIKTOR THE DIRECTOR FLIP THE SCRIPT LIKE ROB REINER

I like giving that assignment, but it seems to bring out the moron in my students. The most common answer I got this year was "I would have the power to kill murderers by looking at them." That's not creative, it's just stupid. And my follow-up questions about the pitfalls of murdering murderers did not lead to a…

Noble Jobs for the Invisible Man:

I like how you guys act as if the blindness thing is the final hurdle we need to get over before perfecting invisibility.

It'd have to be someone who speaks both Swedish and English and who likes vampires, who saw the movie in the theaters in an English-speaking country and paid attention to the English subtitles in spite of the fact that they can speak Swedish, and who then bought the DVD and watched it critically with the English…

I like the animation best on the 3rd Monkey Island - there are little scenes where he puts something enormous in his pants, or dances across hot sand, etc., that are brilliantly animated.

Capital City was "the" big city for the Simpsons. Its nickname was "The Windy Apple". It seemed like every time the Simpsons would do a New York-type storyline, they would go to Capital City.