Love Them Heavy People.

Darkness On The Edge Of Town

I can't get italics or bold to work either.

Wish You Were Here is my favourite, and also David Gilmour's, if either of those things count for fuck all.

No ad hominem attacks or anything, but doesn't he look like an elevator has closed on his head?

Micheal Head & The Strands - X Hits The Spot
Laura Marling - Tap At My Window
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
Beck - Jackass
The Long Ryders - Join My Gang

'Hooch' is made in prisons with fruit and potato peelings and fuck alone knows what else.

It was Willie Donaldson and/or Hermione Eyre who said this about Stephen Fry in their toilet book The Dictionary of National Celebrity.

Sometimes I like him, sometimes I don't, and it's all too tiring.

Moderately off-point, but I used to work in a prison (HMP Durham). Rosemary West, wife of Fred, used to be there, before my time. She used to attend art classes, but at the end of each session her paintings had to be torn into tiny pieces and thrown away, or else the tabloids would've been interested in buying them.

'I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.' - Peter Cook.

My love to Mart.

I just saw a copy of this book in the Amnesty bookshop, and had a moment of real world/AV Club meshing, which made me laugh and not know how to explain it to the people I was with.

Empirical or GTFO.

Can we not, as a planet, just scrap everything and start all over again?

A Scottish band, yeah, been around the lower slopes of indiedom for a while now. I'm no expert on their stuff, but I think the music for The Returned is fairly representative - moody, sparse though occasionally tumultuous.

Yes to the back catalogue, though I'm a recent convert too, so there might be people who can go into more detail for you. Get them all, is my blunt advice. There's some mild naysaying about her previous album, A Creature I Don't Know, but it sounds fine to me.

We should nod in the direction of Mogwai, while we're here. They perfectly capture the tone of the show - slightly detached but somehow shreddingly emotional at the same time.

There's also an English-English remake in the works, apparently. Paul Abbot has the job (don't know if you know of him - Shameless was his brainchild, though he is a good writer). But I agree - can't see how they'd improve on the French version.

Started May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes - great beginning. Really punchy and clipped prose style, the whole thing powers along mightily.