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Went for 10 days in 92 (but have not been back). Reykjavik, flight to Akureyri, bus inland to Myvatn, out to Akureyri again and then bus around the West Coast for some more of Reykjavik. Fishing trout, swimming, drinking, hiking and watching Denmark win Euro92. The tourist triangle thing is a...

I've knocked up a Spotify playlist of what I could find of Lydon's selection. Not made up my mind about the PiL show, it is tempting. Resisted last years (?) Pistols, but it might be interesting to see Lydon live just once.

Kate Bush? (not exactly current though) "Despite her aversion to school, a youthful interest in English literature and writing also made itself apparent at this time; by the age of 13 she had already come up with the basis of what would eventually become her second top 10 single The Man With...

Spoiler alert, but Omar has his own Wikiepedia page as most of the Wire characters (including a little boy linked to from Omar's page)

On to "These Demented Lands", not really got the flow of it yet though, a bit more spaced out than "Morvern Callar".

Godwin's law still applies, "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches "

Peston's has some last minute addiotions to a talk given in Edinburgh this morning - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/08/what_future_for_media_and_jour.html#comments

Seconded: GIMP is a total nightmare. Designed by geeks for geeks. Depending on how much work you have to do it might be worth forking out for Adobe Photoshop Elements ("ie Lite"). reviews seems favourable http://theappleblog.com/2009/08/26/adobe-bridge-as-a-better-iphoto/ , but there...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6041241/Rat-eating-plant-discovered-in-Philippines.html The plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is believed to be the largest meat-eating shrub, dissolving rats with acid-like enzymes. The team of botanists, led by British experts Stewart...

And here it is! visuals 1/number 3 from the top, imagine how that would motivate the men of EMI :D http://www.czukay.de/visuals/visuals.html

Don't know if it is still in print and how many copies were pressed, picked up mine in my youth. Czukay did however "play" this number at his recent gig at the Roundhouse in London. I think this Biomutanten was off tape/video, but he did play guitar/synths on some of his/Can's other tracks...

Les Vampyrettes (Czukay/Planck):Biomutanten <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"...

Shonen Knife <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"...

There's this fabric called "technical tweed", sooner or later someone is going to use it for something stylish for city use (an image search for the term mostly leads to Horse&Hound types of clothes). That Samourai style is really hard to pull off.

and while we are in the pub-rock/boogie rock crosslands, the mighty sean tyla <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=""...

Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, not the best boogie of theirs but it has Robert Plant guesting (some great Rockpile stuff on youtube) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...

The whole film is now available at the beeb (54 minutes) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2009/07/it_felt_like_a_kiss_the_film.html

Hollywood Brats (73/74) for "Sick on You" (they later turned into pop-punksters The Boys), flares, song about two minutes too long, but "hey I'm gonna be sick on you". <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...

Don't think anyone has mentioned "Eleanor Rigby". Crap sound in this video, but the best imagery of the ones I could see on youtube. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...

You scored 11 out of a possible 16 -"College kids ain't shit!". Did anyone else spot the barmaid from the second series (then in the stevedores's bar) turning up briefly (as in two seconds) in a bar down where they are doing the classic regeneration-by-the-river scheme? Or was I seeing sights?