I was kind of hoping for a firstie, so we could break into a rousing rendition of "Everyone has cancerAIDS".

Except that the spelling is often different there too. I'm streaming the audio of the Nuggets/Lakers game while I'm in the office and Dahntay Jones just came in.

I did. I can see what the Vatican is trying to do there. They're certainly more "socially aware" sins than the classic 7. My point re: Hell wasn't that it doesn't exist in Catholic theology, but rather that it wasn't being actively used as a means for keeping people on the right path.

Yes, it was a failed firstie. However, I stand by the fact that I would have written the same thing regardless of where I started the thread. I DO love me some Dante. And I DO think Inferno is by far the most interesting book.

Or a violin…

I'm envisaging a yak hoof making swift, brutal contact with Kutcher's head and a 60s Batman style word balloon with "Yak-smash!!!" (which would sound kind of like Borat's greeting) popping up. Kutcher is then sacrificed by Sherpas to the Mountain God.

Ellie - 'train' is just a synonym for 'exercise' in the antipodes. And I wasn't being critical of anything, just curious, cause I've never seen anyone read in a gym.

1. Owe someone a coke? What? Here you just get punched as hard as possible by the person who you jinxed with. I like your system better.

Ellie - serious question - what on earth are you doing at the gym that enables you to read simultaneously?

Me either. They seem like one of those bands I'm SUPPOSED to like, but I just can't do it.

I thought you practised that "wooo" in that comment about The Hold Steady last week.

I love…
me some Dante. The Inferno is definitely the best book of the three. Purgatory and Paradise seem a little boring by comparison.

Lisa needs braces…

This is the beauty of the US/Australia time difference. I get these on Saturday morning with my awful hangover. Seems far more appropriate.

We did. It's in the preamble to the FTA.

I was always led to believe that the key criterion was not wangnormousness, but rather wangstamina.

lovemydog - I'm the same. I loved Hazards from the beginning. iTunes tells me I've listened to it about 50 times in its entirety. A lot of my friends didn't get it, but I tried to explain that you need to look at it as a rock opera and not as a pop album, and review it as such. The Cokemachineglow review was the…

I don't know if you ever get to that point. I remember plodding along over weeks and weeks saying "I hate this but I can't put it down" and then getting to the end and going "Ohhhhh, that was sweet".

Mostly bands…
Bright Eyes - Took me forever to get past Conor's voice.

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