The Bends > OK Computer. Maybe OK's highpoints are slightly higher, but overall The Bends is a stronger album.

Zed is actually spelled Z.

It's so hard to like stuff other people have heard of. Sigh.

Sounds like it's True Lies but with the female part beefed up (snerk) in order to counteract the accusations of misogyny that True Lies attracted. However it will not attract the accusations of awesomeness that True Lies attracted (what with being awesome)

"Hello. We're the beeyoodiful Corrs."

While not disagreeing entirely with many of the criticisms in the review, I like this record a great deal. I mean, Sean says Marina's songs, "full of sugary synthesizer whorls and theatrical pomp, often come across as tongue-in-cheek performance-art pieces masquerading as mindless electro-fluff"as if that's a bad…

Why don't you go back and try watching the speech, you know, really WATCHING it, with your eyes, and then come back and tell me if she really got into the spirit of the thing?

Not turn up, if she can't take the fucking joke.

For all her supposed "good humour", wasn't Bullock's speech kind of petulant and defensive?

Oh no you dod not.

"Except there won't be a next time because I am about to shoot you in the face, using the trigger finger that you did not cut off. So next time don't do anything, because you are dead."

The Izzard of comedy?

Audible Chocolate, I don't know how I know this either (osmotically absorbing every piece of non-news about minor celebrities published in our craven, vacuous press I guess) but Imbruglia is actually divorced from the singer from Silverchair.

Most of the characters in 6FU were pretty infuriating at some point. With Lisa it was just that - as Taylor suggests here - she was more sketchily written than the other characters so you couldn't always understand why she was acting like that. Kudos to Taylor for making Lisa more sympathetic than she probably…

Ian Dury?

Independent school is also a useful term to use instead of public school because people associate public schools with hateful privilege. If you say "I attended a public school" people think you are a rich twat. If you say "I went to an independent fee-paying school in an average London suburb on a scholarship" people…

Shame JFK didn't know any more colourful terms for the female clunge.

Todd's question
"Why, exactly, was that one guy from the school everywhere the guys went?"

Licky_Kicky

NOT the chick that played a murdered waitress in True Blood season 1? Damn, I was looking forward to her biopic. More nudity probably.