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factory vinyl was packed with 'em: they should all be listed in the discography here: http://listen.to/factory

i can't remember the song, but i had a lump-in-throat moment listening to something on headphones on the bus on the way to work the other week ... mind you, *anything* sets me off. seriously: i'm a right girl ;)

for a brief while as a student, i worked in poundstretcher on south bridge in edinburgh. oh, the poundstretcher C90. it chills my very soul to think of it. one tape, on constant repeat. the high point - and i'm not joking - was "when the sun goes down" by level 42. the lowest moment was "summer...

for crying out loud. that's pathetic. absolutely pathetic. 1) what a staggering waste of teaching resources. shouldn't our children's classroom time be spent on something useful and important? 2) if we're going to teach them about "good" and "bad", shouldn't we begin with the fundamentals -...

absolutely. it's really, really simple: if you're that bothered about privacy, stay indoors under a big blanket and - whatever you do - don't connect your home computer to a world-wide network. of course google aren't in it for altruistic reasons any more: they're a bloody big business. but for...

aw, come on: the mercy dash with the toy elephant at the end really did bring a tear to my jaded eye. and the fact they let him survive/be rehabilitated through the power of luuurve was a bit of a cop-out. but it's still a fantastic film. way, way better than i expected.

er, no. a computer is going to (has been for some time!) rifle through it looking for keywords. the results it comes out with are hysterical, FWIW: a brief exchange between me and my mate about his gig spawned four adverts for wedding rings (obviously the word "band" was the trigger). it's...

what, a trial run for "look how much money we can waste on something pointless nobody really cares about or understands"? :) (i'm joking. i'd be delighted if london got the games, to be honest)

spoke too soon ... OK, not a fault as such, but annoying all the same. i can never get the realplayer plugin to work properly. which means that at the moment i'm listening to andrew collins's radio 6 show through, heh, windows media player. on a mac. this seems a little perverse. anyone else...

noble sentiments. but there's one big problem with communism, or indeed extended community of any kind (ie the "global proletariat"): people. on the whole - at least here in the affluent west - we're a bunch of f***ing imbeciles: too venal, stupid and short-sighted ever to embrace anything...

that - in glasgow at least - citroen C3s are without exception driven by imbeciles who shouldn't be allowed within a million miles of a main road. honestly. every time i see one, i can guarantee the driver's going to do something idiotic, often in my general vicinity. i'm getting quite paranoid...

the mighty wedding present, of course.

really? i never knew that. explains a lot, though ;) i love the album (and the EP that preceded it) but was bitterly, bitterly disappointed when i saw him live in glasgow (about a year back? downstairs at the 13th note, anyway). utterly devoid of atmosphere. today, btw, i have been listening...

i actually bought the album because i saw a half-page ad in OMM for it a couple of months back. the cover and the choice of typeface used on the ad (an early-saville-esque italicised serif thing) sealed it for me. the cover and the typeface on the ad are by far the best thing about it ;)...

surely johnny cash's version of "hurt" owns this thr ... oh, hang on, not on ILM now. seriously, though: it's the classic example of this kind of thing. trent reznor's sub-adolescent whining transformed into this epic piece of rage against the dying and the shite. it's absolutely monumental. i...

ah, but that's the problem: i don't really know what representative iraqi opinion is (and right now we have little chance of finding out). we know what the hardliners think, we know what some pro-americans think: but there's a vast, terrified majority there who might as well be invisible to the...

firefox is an absolute joy. i use it on both my macs at home, and i cannot find a single fault. it even works with the notoriously picky royal bank of scotland site, which flummoxes safari and most others. here at work i'm stuck with IE, which makes my working day just that little more...

links? links? what, you think i'm the kind of journalist who can back stuff up? :) http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1352952,00.html ... this has the group now known as "al-Qaeda in Iraq" calling for her release rather than her murder. this will probably interest you on a more...

i certainly don't want to encourage the bush/blair bellicosity, but i'd like to see some form of success. problem is, how is that defined? i mean, in this context, both "war" and "success" are so subjective as to be totally meaningless. are we still actively "at war"? if so, who with: is there a...

what? come on: stephen pastel is the definition of the shambling indie mook. you see him shuffling about at little gigs in glasgow, with his bloody ripped domino records bag and the same haircut his mum gave him in 1982, and you think, jesus wept, talk about wasted potential. the pastels can be...