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I got my brother the Neutral Milk Hotel one, which is really good. Loads of input from everyone on Elephant 6 at the time (bar Mangum), and lots of detail on how the album came to be, details of how it was produced, etc. They're all written by different people though, so I've no idea on the...

Ah. I'm not sure how likely it is that anyone else would have spotted him, but one of the dads at my primary school in Islington used to pick up his son and daughter driving an ambulance, often wearing a vest with a budgie on his shoulder. Brilliantly, a mate of mine who went to Northbridge...

There used to be a guy who'd ride his wheelchair the wrong way up Cambridge Heath Road at around 3/4pm every day, shouting at cars and generally causing chaos. I haven't seen him in years, so I presume he finally got knocked down. He wasn't much of an eccentric anyway, just very loud.

That's awesome. I find tales of what people used to get up to in my area really fascinating. I've never been in the Salmon and Ball. There's such a contrast between the pubs on the Bethnal Green station side of Cambridge Heath Road and the ones closer to Well Street (The Lauriston, which used...

I think he was just trying to back out to avoid more punishment than he was already getting. Even Mourinho I don't think is paranoid enough to plain lie about Frisk coming out of the dressing room, and Barcelona have been getting away with this sort of thing for years. I was recently educated...

Which one? The one opposite the Museum of Childhood?

Mourinho didn't lie about anything though. Do you think any manager would let it lie if he saw the referee coming out of the away dressing room having a laugh and joke at half time? Ferguson would be spitting blood. And he didn't lie about anything that happened in the Reading game; unless I...

Rather someone say something that's going to rile people up than deny seeing anything bad their team's ever done. Wenger's a coward.

Ledley King said himself that nothing racist was said, either in the London Paper or the London Lite (can't remember which).

Hah! Brilliant.

It's not even the thought of another united treble that sickened me; it's the subsequent six month wankfest that would follow it in the press. I'm overjoyed that they went out.

I've never had a problem with them; seems like I've been lucky.

have you no soul?

Grey Cortina and Martin were always my favs as a younger. I still have the War Baby EP kicking around somewhere, I should get that on...

I actually liked the one after Capital Punishment more, though maybe it's just because I haven't listened to it in so long... But yeah, by all accounts Pun seemed like a very troubled, violent person. According to his wiki entry he used to smash the walls in his house up, and then eat the wood.

Me too! Except apart from having a sister or anyone being thrown out of a house. But I used to love Tom Robinson as a kid...

I used to get up early, go downstairs and play my dad's Sex Pistols vinyls (bizarrely, it wasn't Never Mind the Bollocks but the more obscure Some Product and Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle when I was seven or eight. He used to play me The Jam, XTC, Elvis Costello and The Stranglers, which led to...

Get the Derkhead/Tropical double CD, it's full of quality.

'Sirens' is great too.

It's not invented Logan; you said something along the lines of 'I like it when hipsters watch me DJ so I can laugh at them and their clothes'. But obviously I'm not going to ream through a thousand rwd forum topics just to find it, so I don't have an actual source.