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Seeing Eric Wareheim just walking down the street was a surreal experience, as if seeing him doing something completely ordinary was somehow not quite right.

And then arancini from the leftover risotto!

I saw a newspaper article about celebrity look-a-likes some years ago, and all I could think about was that celebrities could refer to them if they wanted to know what they'd look like if they suddenly fell seriously ill.

I believe this is also a play on how the parts set in China were originally meant to be set in France, but were changed to make it more appealing to the Chinese market.

It's entirely possible that I just wasn't in the mood at the time, everybody else seemed to be having a great time.

I think Dear God, I Hate Myself is a pretty easy starting point myself.

I think I hold a resentment towards The Thermals, because the first time I ever heard of them was at a festival (around 2007) when a friend dragged me away from watching Blonde Redhead to see them instead.

DJ Shadow's The Outsider is one of the few that made me truly abandon an artist I had previously adored.

Was expecting this:

Exactly what I thought!

Like I say, I guess that album was more about making other albums harder to hear.

It's kind of the inverse of this concept, but The Return of the Durutti Column's packaging gimmick never ceases to raise a smile from me.

Heavily altered was the first thing I thought of.

These violent delights are making me thirsty.

I read that as "Captain Marvel(Cera)" and was a little perplexed.

I was lucky enough to have my parents take me to see them performing live about 15 years ago, and was astonished that he was still able to pull it off.

So many great choices that I find myself nodding as I read, but a few very personal ones for me:

So what John Oswald did 31 years ago?

May I suggest this:

I think the fact that he's taken something which has no real value (at least not to myself), and done something genuinely creative with it, is what makes it so impressive.