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I don't remember very much about The Prisoner, apart from a pervasive sense of malice. Really weird homespun knitted cardigan nastiness. I would have been about eight when it was screening, though, so it probably wasn't that bad. I can't see the remake being that flash. I mean, how can they...

We can't stop talking about stuff, you know. We'll always want to try and collect our memories in one form or another - and having done so, we'll want to share them with other people. There's an essential tension involved here. The conversation and the experience seem to be constantly engaged...

Chick Corea - Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 is good too... A bit naff, I guess, but worth a listen or two...

That King Tubby photo is ace. If I ever build amps, they're definitely going to be lovingly polished to a high shine...

...and this from Midnight Star, priceless video with inexplicably large telephones... Midnight Star - Operator (SOLAR Records)

Check El Debarge and the dudes from Miami Vice... El Debarge - You Wear It Well

There's this thing... http://www.avreview.co.uk/news/article/mps/UAN/536/v/4/sp/ Not quite 500GB, but still...

Well, yes. But it's also pretty self-evident to anyone who's looked at the way the news media work that some stories are made to be more important than others for reasons other than, say, the 'public good'. The possibility of news fads, or certain issues being given more prominence than the bald...

Learning how to use your diaphragm (the muscle that supports your lungs) is really good, I reckon. It's great for meditation and relaxation, but equally useful for projecting your voice to the back of large concert halls... http://www.cchs.net/health/health-info/docs/2400/2409.asp?index=9445...

Maybe not most, but definitely some. When you're dealing with really strange room shapes and high SPLs, mono-ing everything can help kick things into shape. You can get a kind of clarity that's difficult to achieve with stereo in most situations. Stereo's great if you've got a top quality...

Was that frown @ me, heroesandvillains? :eek:

If you sent me a CD-R of bangin' hardcore, you'll find a review up now...

Zhao's right, just about anything will do - just work out what your budget is and go from there. Bigger brands tend to be better built and easier to fix with readily available spare parts. Bells and whistles (like effects, samplers etc.) can be nice but they're a distraction when you're...

The Claude von Stroke remix of Luke Solomon's Ghouls.

I think the tracks that make up Swing Set are from the older, slightly rougher end of things if you'd like to find that sound in particular - but lots of big band jazz (particularly the stuff mentioned by dHarry, more or less the five must-do artists of the genre) hits the same nerve. Definitely...

That was an unexpected start to my day! They're decidedly un-funky for a group calling themselves a dance band, though, with their school disco side-to-side two step...

I quite like "It was inevitable: the smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kind of baroque and sad in a way that immediately puts me in the mood for the sort of thing he's so good at...

I've got two Macs - an ancient G4 and a Macbook Pro. They're both really, really good, largely because of the way they shape my experience as a computer user. When they crash, it seems like you can usually find a reason and solve or mitigate it. I like the way they look and the solid industrial...

Re: Facebook - it's definitely pretty weird when people who exist for me only as dim memories from primary school resurface with kids and paunches and stuff, represented only by an oddly familiar yet strangey distant photo. Created some pretty serious cogntive dissonance for me... Back on topic...

Done. Always keen for more proper mix-tape action...