It was Christmas #1 in Ireland in 2003. I was in hospital for a couple of days before Christmas after smashing my arm in a cycling accident. It was playing in the room when I was coming around after surgery, and it leaked into my thought processes in weird ways.

https://www.youtube.com/wat… it starts slow, but from when Creepio shows up at 5:30 in it's all gold

No, I thought the best version of the prequels was Backstroke of the West ("he is in my behind" was where I lost it), but the true spirit of Life Day belongs to the Auralnauts dubs, starting with Jedi Party. As Baron von Yolo would say "the Jedi are a bunch of self destructive smackheads", which makes sense once you…

This article is way behind the times. The new age reappraisal started years ago. Even Pitchfork were in on it: http://pitchfork.com/featur… - that article is a lot more interesting and less judgemental than this one. It's nearly ten years since Panda Bear sampled Enya. The boundaries of new age, ambient, and early…

Say what you like about how on-the-nose Pleasantville is, it did look absolutely amazing that one time I ended up watching it on mushrooms.

Proof of Life was a woeful film, but my reward for not leaving before the credits was Van Morrison's "I'll Be Your Lover Too", which transfixed me with its gorgeousness and introduced me to "His Band and the Street Choir".

You could really improve Girls by subbing in the Always Sunny in Philadelphia music actually.

Agreed, and I also think the title of the show is a bit of a lightning rod: calling it "Girls" implies universal experience i.e. "these are typical twenty-somethings with typical lives acting the way twenty-somethings act" vs. if it was called say "Idiots" or "Navelgazers"

Why oh why is Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes not on this list?

I dunno… I thought Backstroke of the West was pretty good. The rest… do not want.

That makes a lot more sense. Serves me right for jumping to conclusions. I did find Californians were very rain averse when I lived in the Bay Area though. The local bike club would cancel group rides if there was a shower forecast for example.

2005 was a bit damp too http://news.bbc.co.uk/media…

Is this a joke? I live in Ireland and have gone to lots of Irish and English festivals, including 4 Glastonburys. It's pretty much guaranteed you'll have weather like that at some stage and nothing has ever been cancelled. I don't want to be like a Chicagoan laughing when Atlanta gets snow, but I was at the 2007…

It ain't cool bein' no jive turkey, so close to thanksgiving.