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It's pretty grim here too. I'm going London-Edinburgh by train later today, so I'll wave at you through the drizzle...

We had two season tickets between my parents and me at the time, and it was my turn to sit it out. Fortunately, my mother being the borderline gloryhunter that she is, the memory of the trek to London for the Charity Shield humiliation a few months earlier was enough to persuade her to let me go in her place. I remember saying to my old man at half-time that I still reckoned it was a case of "next goal wins" - didn't expect the win to quite turn out like that, though.

10 years ago this afternoon, shirley? (I wouldn't normally be quite this pedantic, but it is you, Craig... )

Something in the world of music. I was going to say rawk star, but I might actually prefer to be a classical virtuoso of some description - I imagine there's a far greater sense of satisfaction at a good night's work, and there'd be a relentless stream of poshos willing to pay £100 a pop to see you, plus plenty of opportunity to branch out into CD sales and sit on your arse and like Pavarotti for a while.

I remember the commentator on Premiere in Germany used to keep referring to Ruud van Nistelrooy as "Van..... the Man". Practically every time he had a shot on goal. That wasn't annoying at all.

The new Bellamy tbh

Brainstorm - Among The Suns Quirky Latvian indie-pop-rawk at its finest.

Botnleðja - Iceland National Park

That can't be healthy? Willies!

Baltic-worthy tbh

I would sooner kill myself. Subliminal messages? Apparently if you play Maiden's "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" backwards, it says "EAT.... MORE.... PIES...."

Wouldn't necessarily agree with the last sentence, but there's a lot more to metal than people unfamiliar with the genre would give it credit for. Same way that I know bog-all about rap/hip-hop/whatever, so a lot of it sounds fairly similar or derivative to my ears, but I'm sure there's plenty of innovation and sub-genrefication going on there too. I just have no particular desire to educate myself about it.

Roeder's Krul Intentions? Roeder To Be Kind To Krul?

Cracking stuff. That opening salvo of Refuse/Resist, Territory and and Slave New World is hard to top. One of their best, shame they went to shit afterwards. I do like Roots, if only it was a little less self-indulgent or a couple of songs shorter. After that, yeah, indifference. Soulfly were cack too.

Cool. Any other tactical insights Roeder fancies giving away to the press, the public and the opposition before we get going?

Isn't that heavy metal all over though? I've always found Erasure to be ahead of their time when it comes to musical innovation.

Cracking stuff. That opening salvo of Refuse/Resist, Territory and and Slave New World is hard to top.

Joni Mitchell - Travelogue

I remember when NME went through their Metallica-worship phase around 98/99. Very odd, but it does suggest they're more than just your average dumb metal band. Inevitably getting older now, though, hence Lars Ulrich's (further) descent into utter humourlessness, which is always amusing to view...

Probably got 2000 bookmarks tbh. Nah, I would have if you couldn't just type "happiness" in the 'search topic' box. Oh piss. Why have I never noticed that before? Cheers!

In my experience the only danger of staying in a hostel is that the place itself might be exceedingly dull, but then that's probably my own fault for believing that places like Luxembourg would make decent weekend destinations...

What a film. Bit of an eye-opener, isn't it? I was hoping to read some alternative views before even trying to start working out what I made of it.

Right, maybe I'm just being dense but is there any way of using the search function to skip straight to a specific post? I've just watched Todd Solondz's "Happiness'' and I know it's been mentioned on here before, but I'm buggered if I'm wading through 107 pages to find out where...

ESPN Classics is turning out canny, they've got the rights to some interesting stuff (and some tosh, obviously). There was some decent 1970s Formula 1 on recently.