Futtocks

And this is for the Salford fans if the season doesn't go well.

Words fail me... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMY95z4sKVY

My nearest Asda is a fairly big one, so i could get lucky.

Ooh, nice! I don't shop much at Asda, as there are other supermarkets a bit nearer to where I live, but I may make a trip up the Edgware Road to get a bottle of that own label Islay.

Episode 2 of the Brian Pern thing - not as good as ep.1, but worth sticking with. And Nigel Havers swearing like a very posh docker!

Was it abridged or complete?

Not trying to put you off, but Moby Dick is very long, wordy and heavy going in places.

Norman Lewis - Jackdaw Cake. The great travel writer's early years, first in Carmarthan, living with three exceedingly strange aunts, then living in North London with his spiritualist parents. Quite an upbringing.

Some claims appearing now that the sign on the front door mentions refurbishment. Hope so - it's a Soho institution. "You finished eating! Now pay up and #### off!"

The talk of the Twittersphere is that Wong Kei, the Chinese restaurant with the rudest staff in London, has closed.

The Secret Agent: In Search of America's Greatest World War II Spy by Stephen Talty. A very interesting short biography.

Corporate entertainment, rather than music lovers. Thankfully, people like this often just quietly doze off once the performance is under way.

The Venezuelan composer Reynaldo Hahn's 'Premières Valses'.

I found my copy of 'Dirty Fan Male' the other evening. Performance readings of genuine fan letters to 'glamour' models, Page 3 girls etc., some of them in the voice of Cary Grant, James Mason and Alan Bennett. Absolutely NFSW from the start!

From 'Comedy', an album with a hidden track about David Gower.

He's a brilliant story-teller. If you have a Kindle, this would be 77p well spent.

There's nothing quite the power of a 100+ piece orchestra who are really on good form. And ballet music is actually good to listen to without the dancing too, if you're just listening at home.

When you want to get mediaeval on someone's ass, but in a small way...

Recently finished 'The Chronicles of Hernia' by Barry Cryer and 'The Loved One' by Evelyn Waugh. Both very enjoyable.

Articles by and Interviews with Frank Zappa.

Hey kids! Forget Britain's got Talent!

Following the news about the recent rise in vinyl sales, Private Eye picked up on it for their 'message board' spoof. At least, I think it's a spoof...

Ethiopian jazz time! Samuel Yirga played on the 'Dub Colossus in a Town called Addis' album, which I have recommended to TRL before.

With over 30 million LPs being pressed last year alone, maybe MoFi or some such will get round to doing a nice quality reissue.