I'm really enjoying the new Veils album and its Nick Cave vibe. Kiwi FM are doing there best to overplay the singles from the album but the other tracks are so fucking good I don't really care if they just put Jesus For the Jugular on repeat for 2 weeks.

At this rate Nux Vomica going to be my album of the year and probably in my top 10 of all time. House Where We All Live, Nux Vomica, and Advice For Young Mothers To Be are my standout tracks but to be honest there's not a bad track in the whole lot - simply ten perfectly formed gems.

Anyone else heard the album? Cheers? Jeers?

and we're back to the handwringing

Really enjoying that new single. Does the rest of the album have a similar vibe?

I've never heard so much hand-wringing bullshit from reporters justifying why this is news.

Wallace's new sunday show was great. I've been tuning in to kiwi for the last couple of weeks. The new format is really quite good.

Is there a new King Kapisi single out? I heard a track on Kiwi the other day and it was really good.

so is this an ad for hey fash? or snakes on a plane? or pulse? or animal planet?

I recently read Paul Auster's "City of Glass". It's sorta like the literary equivalent of a David Lynch film - the plot didn't really make sense and the characters were surreal. An enjoyable read, though and I'll probably read more Auster.

"After The Layoffs" by Paul Levinson was OK. It's a Palahniuk-esqe tale of a dude in a small US town who becomes a hitman after the factory he works in shuts down. The ending was a bit crap but it was a generally good book.

Speaking of Chuck Palahniuk, I started "Diary" but got a bit bored and didn't finish it. Nowhere near the quality of "Fight Club", "Survivor" or "Lullabye". Chuck seemed to be stuck in a rut with "Diary".

I finished Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" in December. "The System Of The World" was really, really good. The best ending in any Stephenson novel. If you're into science, pirates, economics, alchemy, 17th century politics or swordfighting then I can heartily recommend the "Baroque Cycle". And "Cryptonomicon". Ten kinds of awesome.

I've started tagging some books with "reading-list" on del.ico.us. It'd be really cool if other people did that too so we could easily find out about new books.

[ http://del.icio.us/foaf/reading-list ]

I have a couple of semi-pro (France) rugby player friends who used creatine while they were playing and swore by it. They definitely bulked up quickly when they started using it regularly.

The EAS stuff works too, if you stick to the eating/exercise regime. Tastes like crap tho.

//I said love and lust were mutualy exclusive.

You speak a funny variant of English Mr rdor.

Planet rdor is a strange place. Do you have pirates? Or ninjas?

You know what confuses me the most about your "stereotype" rdor? Surely if you'd given more than 3 seconds thought to it when you came up with your idea you would have reached the conclusion that the lazy bastards were too fucking idle to fill in their enrollment forms let alone on-to-it enough to stop drinking for 1/2 an hour on a Saturday to go and vote.

See, I just made that up. But I can't imagine how you could disagree with me. So it must be true right?

You're astounding rdor. You've pulled some philosophy from out of nowhere based on broad assumptions you've made about what you suspect some people you don't know, and have never met, do with their time while you're on your way to work. Way to go.