Who was in your gang, you and your mum?
I think I'm wondering too hard why Murray's mum wasn't allowed in the 'bikie gang' with him and his brother. Between this and the 'conversation' between the 'mum' guitar and the 'dad' guitar last week, Murray's childhood sounds a little sad, in a mundane kind of way.

Here we go again with the fatcat bashing
Erm… yeah, just wanted to make a Simpsons quote.

Metal Box
They used the metal box again for the CD version. I bought it as a 15 year old completely unaware of who Public Image Ltd. were at a sale from a local cd store because I thought the tin was awesome and would make a great place to keep my stash if the album was wack.

Speaking as someone who dropped $150 on a Leonard Cohen ticket for last week's Wellington gig, you're some kind of idiot if you can but don't see him on this tour. Absolutely amazing.

Reality has a couple of good tracks but by and large it's fucking awful.

I'm a bit harsher than you, considering I'd write off half of Heathen and all of Earthling.

I've never heard anyone say a bad word about him, actually.

alright, alright. I did laugh at you Kazmarov crack on the first page

yeah, Fashion is no Candidate/Sweet Thing/Candidate (Reprise) but it's still a great pop song.

you know, they have a special word for 'novel writer' nowadays, and I heard they were working on another.

Hot on the Heels of Love by TG is one of the most beautiful songs I know, especially coming in the middle of such a non-beautiful (but brilliant) album

got a friend like that who I will never forgive for it.

a friend of mine was once watching The Big Lebowski with his girlfriend, who was silent up until the Logjammin' sequence, at which point she piped up and said the film was 'boring' and 'made no sense' and asked if she could be 'taken home'.

David Motherfucking Bowie
If you don't like Bowie, you don't like music. Or life.

Dubs, was it the redhead from Kenickie? I was a Britpop obsessed 13/14 year old Kiwi when they were in their pomp and I used to thank god whenever new copies of NME or Melody Maker came out because they'd have new pictures of her in them.

I just moved back to the west (well, New Zealand) from Japan and my first meal here was Guiness glazed baked ham… fuck it was beautiful.

I used to have a photo of my ex-girlfriend peeing with Buckingham Palace in the background…

another for Kate Capshaw, one of the many things that combined to try and ruin Temple of Doom.

well, they do sound like robots

Jenna Krakowski can suck the funny out of… well, you know, sex.