I was happy ignoring Lara Bingle until she and Michael Clarke split, which put me in the unique position of almost sympathising with Michael Clarke.

The Informant! introduced me to the word kugelschreiber, and because of this the film will always occupy a special place in my heart.

You could argue that the 'peace on Earth' wish covers the forthcoming alien invasion. (Or it would make it even easier for the aliens to take over…)

Or he could have wished for (SEASON 8 SPOILERS) his terminal illness to be cured.

Yeah, I'm halfway through rewatching Season 8 right now and it is solid and often great. I have found that the episodes shoehorning Mulder in have been the weakest.

Is Dean Moriarty less fucking annoying in the original scroll version? It probably didn't help that I imagined all his lines in the voice of Flanders' father.

So the poor old ostrich died for nothing?

I was not a fan and have no hesitation lumping it in with the worst episodes in the show's run (not including season 9 which I'm not up to yet).

I think his mother is upset because he didn't get around to boning Naomi Watts sooner.

Just out of interest, how was it that Murray Street was the first record of theirs that you came across? I would guess that for most people it would be Goo or Daydream Nation (mine was Dirty).

Que?

FEDERMAN

Daydream Nation does have Kim rambling at the start of Teenage Riot, though not singing. And although Sister is up there as my favourite SY record, Schizophrenia is so great that Catholic Block straight afterwards is underwhelming by comparison.

I have something to confess. I'm in love with Associate Producer Walter Skinner.

If so he's been keeping in character for a while now.

Wow, In Rainbows is also my most listened *high fives @avclub-1d5f36370c7ddcd55c96c2fb6bd11ead:disqus *, though I was sure it would have been Ok Computer or Hail To The Thief. The Bends has had 5 plays in the last 8 years apparently. I must have burnt out on listening to it way too much in 1996 (on cassette!). Now I…

My secret shame is liking The Vines (yeah, I know). Their first album was great. But for years after that came out, I'd always read some article where the singer is saying they've got 40 songs ready to choose from for the next album, and then the next album was always at least half shit. This always made me wonder how…

The 250 songs thing is a completely absurd statement until you realise the guy saying it is Bradford Cox.

Well this is weird, my iTunes playcount says I've listened to Microcastle more than Cryptograms, though my mind tells me that I prefer Cryptograms. What could this mean? Facts proving my opinion wrong? Unheard of.

Avant garde? Nah, I think it will sound like all their other records. Nothing wrong with that, keep churning out Cryptograms knock offs and I'll be happy.