Ayatollah Hermione

Saw something today about how O'Neill's reputation seems to increase the longer he's not in a job.

Nice, where did you get it? eBay for 8 quid. I think the vinyl box has more extra business in it though.

http://textsfrombennett.tumblr.com/

"Everywhere on this aisle; there's fucking chicken dippers, microwave fries, roast potatoes. Not a single overpriced fucking organic item in sight. Fuck off back to Sainsburys if you want that African shit. Real British mums eat BRITISH FOOD. Like Pizzas, half price now"

F Finally got here and is everything you expect from a compilation centered around a bunch of Indonesians, taking drugs, listening to Sgt. Peppers, James Brown and Prog Rock, then writing music like it. Now, I just need some more of it.

Clarkson quoted as saying "If I get the sack, I have to say, it'd be the biggest travesty IN THE WORLD"

Horrible bitch. She should be shot.

McNally seemed to indicate it was Hughes last night. Mentioned in one tweet that he was off to put a bet on it and then mentioned it was on Hughes a bit later

Course you do.

Happy birthday, dear

Those Greeks were fucking mental. I'd wager about 75% of them were off their tits on some substance or other. Some crazy defending from PAOK and they deserved it. Gareth Bale was a waste of a sub.

I see he's got a book out...

Keith Gillespie is on now and will follow you if you have a bit craic on with him. Not responded to much about his Barca performance yet though.

My phone used to do that and it was always a case of waiting a while for it to come through. Hope it's not as bad as you fear.

Same Will I ever find true love in the arms of a Chinese woman?

Never gonna dance again

With you on Thurston Moore, Chez. Just listened to it today and it's excellent. I really love House of Balloons too; my past week has basically been spent listening to it. The transition from House of Balloons to Glass Table Girls is immense. I don't think I can pick a Top 10 yet but my definites would be: St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues The Weeknd - House of Balloons PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost The Dear Hunter - The Colour Spectrum Night Beats - S/T Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream Not heard Kate Bush, Feist or Tom Waits yet and there's stuff released earlier in the year that I'll have to re-listen to like Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Psychic Paramount, Danger Mouse and Destroyer to see how I feel about them. It's been a pretty good year though IMO. Special credit to Gotye for releasing, maybe, the best single with "Somebody That I Used to Know", closely followed by SBTRKT's "Wildfire" EDIT: Lykke Li, Laura Marling and Anna Calvi all had good albums too. Sisters doing it for themselves

St. Vincent for me, I reckon.

Been a canny year (though I've not played Uncharted 3 and Assassins Creed: Revelations yet) but for the most part, the best games have been the ones not hyped up too much. Little Big Planet 2 was fantastic IMO. Great, inventive level design and the community tools they gave people were insane. Some really crazy user-made levels coming out of that with my only gripe being they couldn't code the possibility for user-levels to use PS Move so I could play hundreds of light-gun levels. Dead Space 2 had some impressive set-pieces but was an action game masquerading as a survival horror game; struggled to get the ammo consumption right and improves a lot more when you play it on a lower difficulty, treat it as a big budget Aliens rip off and enjoy the set-pieces. Killzone 3 and Homefront were terrible. MORTAL KOMBAT was incredible. I'm no fighting game wizard (and never will) so Mortal Kombat appeals to me nicely and the nostalgia kick was great. It had more than that though with a fun story mode, a crazy challenge tower mode and FREDDY KRUEGER as DLC. Portal 2 was very good and incredibly well written though lacked the insular charms of the original. Though, their work in expanding that universe in an innovative way was excellent and the puzzles were brilliant. Fun CO-OP mode too. LA Noire was basically a point and click adventure game with a great setting but silly story. Its core mechanics were functional but rode a lot of goodwill with the Mocap stuff. I did really enjoy it though, thought the scraping around for clues etc brought back nice little memories of Broken Sword and Sam and Max. Not played Infamous 2 or Dragon Age 2 Deus Ex was so average that I struggled to get through half of it. Still got it to complete. DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO. What a great game. Drugged out cop plays out 70s buddy cop fantasy in his head complete with driving under trucks, smashing head first into oncoming traffic and driving school buses off ramps. A game in which all the core mechanics blended excellently; far better than it had any right to be. Dead Island made me more tired of zombies than I am already which was impressive. Gears 3 had a good campaign, if an infuriating one from a storytelling perspective. Horde mode really is a phenomenon though and I wish my internet was working to take advantage of it. Arkham City was excellent, though again, lacked the surprise factor of its prequel. Catwoman's dialogue and all-round gameplay were shitty though and the game would have worked a lot better if it was solely Batman. Improved on its boss fights which makes the whole package great though. Ratchet and Clank 4 manages to take everything fun about the series and replace it with the clusterfuck bullshit of New Super Mario Bros. Wii except the latter is still good with 1 player. Not played a lot from November (though it was a ridiculously stacked month) but it's crazy that at this point in time (without having played Uncharted, Ass:Creed, Sonic Generations, Rayman and anything Wii-exclusive), my GOTY is probably Driver: San Francisco. From a sheer personal POV, I mean, Best Game with regards to technical achievement, mechanics, etc is probably Skyrim but D:SF is well worth a playthrough from anyone. So, yeah, what have I missed? Not played many downloadable games but as far as I'm concerned, XBLA will never top Shadow Complex as long as it exists.

Yep, done with this for a while. Shame, guess this kind of thing just isn't doing it for me anymore.

Not played this for a week, went back to it tonight and couldn't get back into it. This is clearly a better game than Oblivion but it's not grabbing me half as much. I'd say I may be leaning toward more linear experiences but I'm having boat loads of fun just messing around in Saint's Row. Very peculiar.

It's a no from me, Simon Happy

Robbie Elliott didn't knock 4 past the Mackems That's why it was special. His chicken dance was rarer than hen's teeth. But was it rarer than Steve Watson's throw-in?

Shame because I actually reading his posts about the on-field side of things. I remember some really interesting old chat about our 70s players between him and, I think, Stevie where LM was telling him the craic about a few of them and it was good to read.