Las Catch Up

Well it appears that after a brief hiatus the doors at the Swish Cottage have closed for good. This seems especially sad to me as David started his blog on the exact same day Parallax View made its messy, bewling entrance into the rarified blogosphere. Who knows though, maybe he will reopen at a later date as Spruce Bungalow or something.

I don't think it's the done thing these days to link to people just because they've redesigned but listen, this is Anja so the normal etiquette doesn't apply, OK? She's talking about her relationship to suicide at the moment, and you really want to read that, even if you think you don't.

That bloody Evanescence record at No.1 in the UK singles charts: it's the bastard lovechild of T'Pau and Linkin Park, don't you think? You see, this is what happens when abortion laws get tightened up.

The new Radiohead album Hail To The Thief (released on Monday) represents the band's return to rockier more guitar-based sounds. Can I be the first to say I preferred their earlier, electronic records?

Margaret Atwood sings! (via The Minor Fall The Major Lift)

Newcastle Brown ice cream! (via Mad Musings Of Me)

Mandy Moore gets naked! In a new Warner Bros movie, thus far untitled, in which she plays a rambunctious daughter of the President. The word rambunctious just doesn't get used often enough, does it? (via fark)

Back soon with a report on the Grandaddy gig in Birmingham last night.