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    Academese

    This is a 'state the bleeding obvious' question but are you taking handwritten notes in the oldfashioned way? I'm doing an Open University MSc and i find rewriting tricky passages 'normal' english bullet pointy fashion really helps. oh and only ever reading the first and last chapters of books...
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    Forgotten or lost or minor jungle classics 93-94

    tom and jerry: Maxi(mun) Style A minor google reveals that this track which was my (rare groove loving) girls way into jungle... was Dego and Mark from 4 hero! Fresh fresh fresh as you like whatta tune. <runs away embarrassed because everybody probably knew that already...>
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    Overwhelmingly joyful tunes

    with the blahdiblah's and the blahdiblahs Feminine pressure or whatever just means you can actually DANCE to it. oh and this
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    Pointless But It Makes Me Chuckle to Myself

    In the ladies loo in the Camden Head in Islington in the 80s there was graffiti which said 'Life is for living' under which someone had written 'not if you're starving and oppressed and can't get food'
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    Clothes

    I'm feeling like this Guido thing is well represented by Mister Andre - seen here with his fragrant wife Katie
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    Stewart Home discussing the Avant Garde on the Today programme

    Anyone else catch this? A somewhat flummoxed Evan Davies talking to Stewart Home, Hari Kunzru and some other bloke about the avant garde.... Stewart Home was showing off about his popularity in Finland but was spot on about the importance of social relations to avant garde culture. Check...
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    Clothes

    god yes they're fabulous! I would like the ladyversion - where did they come from?
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    what you currently enjoying ?

    squarepusher - a real woman
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    The odius Niall Ferguson and his defence of Pinochet

    What I was wondering about in particular was his idea that the dismantling of the welfare state in Chile - with people given the option to pay into into private pension plans had led to greater prosperity and security for older people (cue shot of older Chileans dancing around looking glossy)...
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    The odius Niall Ferguson and his defence of Pinochet

    Did anyone else have the misfortune to watch Niall Ferguson on Channel Four last night? He appeared to be defending the Pinochet Junta's brutal regime (and the overthrow of the Allende government) on the grounds of their sound monetary policy which was influenced by a group of Chilean...
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    Music for Babies

    I'm 7 months pregnint and my unborn child has recently gone mental to; - Murcof live with Oren Marshall (crazy tuba dude) - Alexandra on X Factor doing a Take That cover
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    Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

    JESUS CHRIST SAVIOUR - Kinski madness Still on a german tip I saw this on Sunday morning - by turns laugh out loud funny and incredibly moving..... Jesus Christ Saviour It made me think that there's definitely room in the documentary canon for a really great film about heckling... "At the...
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    Well? Giant Lego man washes up on a beach in Brighton?

    I can solve the mystery.. i think its something to do with this guy...:confused:
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    The Phenomenal Slavoj Zizek

    Thats the sickest thing I've ever heard.
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    Gardening zeal on Radio Five Live

    On my last allotment site there was an old geezer who used to sublet his shed to some naughty boys for illicit cultivation. You may laugh at the gardeners but you'll all be round scrounging my spuds when peak oil comes.
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    The Blackdown and Dusk album

    4. “Kuri Pataka (The Firecracker Girl) ft Teji and Farrah” This is the track that will make me buy this album... been listening to it on the myspace page. That lady Farrah is v cool.
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    music and the unborn child

    aww fanks to you and mister eden! me and the dad are thrilled to bits... Gramps is clean as a whistle - lovely sound...
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    music and the unborn child

    I'm having a baby in February... what will happen if I subject my unborn child to the might of the Gramps Hifi? Will the vibrations distress it?
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    Headphone Reviews

    I'm looking for a pair of £50 headphones... going to go to Turnkey in London town tomorrow... What should I get? Help! Puhlease!
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    no smoke - International Smoke Signal (please)

    i have dis.. but I don't want to sell it! ;) agreed about its incredible influence.. Also see 'Single minded people' by Nicolette and 'Hot music'.... for tunes that changed the way I thought about dancin and music
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