I love her music but I think that more of the criticism tends to be around the fact that she was incredibly and appallingly racist.

I love any scene with Austin Pendleton in!

Festivals are often the only chance I get to see bands these days so the line up is pretty important for me but The Green Man is in a beautiful setting (in the Usk Valley with Sugar Loaf Mountain in the background) and the one time I went previously in 2008 it was a lovely atmosphere despite the mud.

I finished two books (count 'em!) this week. They were Claire Of The Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat and Irma Voth by Miriam Toews. I thought that they were both great. Miriam Toews is new to me and I'm very much looking forward to exploring further because this book felt like a real rough diamond and she seems to…

I like to make my own entertainment when I'm in an altered state. This typically consists of weed and dark rum and loading some nice loops into my sampler (I always have lists lying around of stuff that I want to loop and deep crates). I then plug my sampler into a guitar effects pedal and plug my headphones into…

My lady friend loves that Cornershop song

upped for Dungen

Lee Perry & The Upsetters~Big Neck Cut
Ennio Morricone~No ghè più ble cantar della sera
Ike & Tina Turner~Bold Soul Sister
Vanessa Paradis~The Future Song
Chubby & The Turnpikes~I Know The Inside Story
The Troubleneck Brothers~Back To The Hip Hop
Black Milk~Black & Brown feat. Danny Brown
Shugo Tokumaru~Button
Bunker…

what did the leper say to the prostitute?

Frisk Frugt is pretty freaking crazy business. Considering going to see him as he's playing nearby but probably won't have the cash to do so.
dankstoppen moder faso i det himmelba rum hvor solen bor, suite is a pain to write out if you're doing hand written track listings for somebody's compilation cd but still worth…

upped for lots but 'specially Pentangle.

G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N

The Fall~Lay Of The Land
ABBA~Hey Hey Helen
Saint Etienne~Kiss And Make Up
Sergio Mendes~For What It's Worth
Big Youth~You Don't Care
Dolly Parton~The Grass Is Blue
Herb Alpert & The TJB~Legend Of The One-Eyed Sailor
Band Of Gypsys~Who Knows
Luscious Jackson~Deep Shag
Gillian Welch~Acony Bell

did you hear about the drink who went to the party?
it got drunk

I felt that the first hour of the Babadook was a masterpiece but then the less subtle it got the less scary it got. The reveal is often the big problem because what the viewer is imagining up til that point is generally going to be a lot scarier than what you can put on screen. Agreed that Essie Davis was wonderful…

Can't forgive him for his line on Good Friday 'hold on that's the girl you gave a wedding ring? man me and my n$$$$s nutted on her everyhting'~worst best man's speech of all time!

You definitely should check it out, I think it's a really strong album.

Agreed we've been on a great run since the back end of last year with PRhyme, Cannibal Ox, Open Mike Eagle's A Special Episode EP, Joey Bada$$, Lupe and the Mello Music Group compilation. I'm sure I'm missing some as well.

"You’d be forgiven for missing Jackets’ overstuffed samples"
I would imagine that with this being the first commercial release he'd have to be a lot more wary around sample clearance issues.

I was 11 when she mimed to Holiday on The Tube from The Hacienda night club and she's been a constant for me from then (although I haven't much gone for anything after Hung Up)
Lucky Star (still my favourite)
Stay
Into The Groove
Burning Up
Express Yourself
La Isla Bonita (mainly for the fact that my youngest daughter used…