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The old school: Eric Satie, Darius Milhaud.

Didn't the bottom drop out of internet advertising about 5 years ago?

Nigel Slater gets a lot of Dissensus love. I should try some out. I could do with increasing my curry repertoire too, so will investigate 50 Great. Don't know if it changed my life, but Peter Gordon's A World in my Kitchen is pretty indispensable. It all works, it's all pretty easy, and it all...

Maybe they did, it's just obscured by a massive, over-designed Sky caption...

Had to use poison in the last place I lived at. Did the trick; but be sure to look for bodies each day. Don't wait until you notice a 'funny smell' before seeking them out... One of my old housemates lived in a place with lots of mice, as well as several semi-stray cats. They would wait until...

Well, I don't mean exactly Eastern scales, but that Orientalised version of Eastern scales that Western music has drawn on since at least Debussy - flattened sevenths, lots of minor thirds, that sort of thing - that actually sitis close to old church modes (which Debussy also made use of). If...

Much as I love gek-opel's take at the start of the thread, I think the spritual/uplifting thing through minor/modal keys comes about through connection with religious chant (look at Enigma (!), or everybody sampling Hildegard of Bingen, eg), as well as aspects of a vaguely Eastern-ish...

And what the hell's a cocktail show - you can look but you can't drink?

I get this too Don - the only thing I've found that works is to navigate by the breadcrumb links at the top of a page rather than clicking back and forward in your browser. Bit irritating, but you get used to it.

What do we reckon to the four-man attack option? That way you can keep all the batsmen. The argument is that this weakens our attack from the awesome foursome of last summer, but I don't buy that; with Harmison, Hoggard, Flintoff and Panesar we've got as threatening attack as before, and with...

Sweet. 102 tracks? Jesus... :eek:

Heston Blumenthal's carbonara is one of the best recipes I know: Works really well for two - use one onion, half a chilli, 100g bacon, 2 egg yolks, etc.

Doesn't internet porn just make us all feel a bit vanilla though? It's one thing to have certain tastes that you think you've figured out by yourself because you don't hear anyone else talking about them; but quite another to find that predilection pulls about a billion hits on Google...

Do you ever read Daniel Finkelstein in the Saturday Times? Unlike all other football writers his column is tied to a statistical model that he uses to predict games (with an accuracy that consistently beats the bookies at least), and also to debunk most of the common cliches of football writing...

You may well, be right, but I'm just sceptical as to how effectively this can be done scientifically. Style, as a century of musicology has shown, is a notoriously difficult thing to pin down and categorise. The real connections between pieces of music are either conscious on the part of the...

That's exactly it. You'll never find a broadsheet film critic writing a piece on 'We all know that art house cinema is poncey wank that places to half empty cinemas and no one we know cares about, but anyway, I spent last weekend with a stack of Dogme DVDs, and you know what, it's not all that...

The human interest I could live with; it's the apparent contempt he has for the music itself (and the smugly assumed kinship that this gives his readers) that I can't stand. Just look at the implied reader that is set up in this first paragraph: Or, "most music fans, people like you, with...

I said a little about it last year on the blog, but nothing terribly profound. Having played around on Pandora since then, I think it functions best as a personal background radio with the added bonus of zero Chris Moyles and Russell Brand. Whenever I've tried it, it's only brought up things I...

I like the paragon who wrote this gem in today's paper. He has a mature and intelligent approach to unfamiliar music that is the mark of all the best-informed, most perceptive, responsible critics.

Aw, crap.