Have we done this? If so, don't care.

I vividly recall going to buy singles in the record department of Wholmes in Bexley Heath Broadway. In those days records were bought in special departments in electrical stores: Wholmes, and also Ajax in Welling. They had little sound booths.

I also remember how the price of 45s went up from 6/8, to 7/6, to 8/8, and 9/11. If you look at it like that, it makes iTunes look like amazing value.

I bought my first 45 there, with my own money: Daydream Believer. It was closely followed by Aquarius, Fifth Dimension, and Sugar Sugar.

Bought my first self-funded LP in Ajax. School's Out, Alice Cooper.

And I suspect it won't be the last time, either.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/09/adobe-flash-mobile-dead

Just been looking at that numbers woman on Countdown, and what's she's wearing. Christ. She's on now, if anyone fancies an ogle*.

*not a lennyism*

This morning I was clearing up and tidied away the Berts' toys etc. I had to put together one of the youngest's jigsaw puzzles. Took me fcking ages. Christ.

And re another ridiculous old mailout
story, was anyone else really surprised
to read that Bono was in France
yesterday, the same day Carla Bruni
was admitted to hospital?

What can this mean? Any ideas?

They knocked me out when I saw them on Later. Was it only me who found her outrageously sexy? All that aside, I loved their arrangement of this. It shows that this is actually a very good song.

I'm surprised I haven't read anyone else singing their praises on here. Or maybe I blinked and missed it.

Ooh, it's tempting, isn't it? Both come highly recommended by The Mothership, both have apparently achieved their apotheosis and let's face it, there's not much else going on, is there?

Well, maybe not. A good idea on paper, perhaps. But on the strength of the recommendations I've downloaded both artists. They each have good things going for them: a clear identity, strong songs, unambiguous statements of intent. I don't think I would go so far as describing either of them as being 'on top of their game', as I would hope that the best is yet to come.

But, if push came to shove in this flat to the floor scenario, whose side would I come down on?

Er....

Wilco.

More to follow.

There. I said this was what she's best at.

*adopts smug glow*

Mark Kermode thinks it is. I'm not sure about that, but I do think that it's genuinely scary and a brilliant piece of film making. And, if anyone cares to argue the toss, I defy anyone to watch that film on their own, in an empty house, in the dark, at 3 in the morning.

Rosbif! What did you think of it?

And so here I am, on the Boudicca Express taking the Iceni Line back home and away from That London and a most excellent and enjoyable Mingle. It was my first, you know.

Londonium isn't that bad. It"s positively and gloriously mental. The event itself went like a charm and I would like to thank everyone there for making it so, and a big one to Hannah for organizing and hostessing and generally making sure that no-one was left feeling, er, left out.

I've come away with a pile of CDs and if anyone would like to mail me I would be only too happy to send off a Stones DVD, once the iMac's fixed. Cheers to all for making such a stirling effort and for being so friendly. We're not a bad bunch at all, you know.

Saw the first one last night. For the Sun. Advertising for Christmas. Second week of September.

Very interesting quote from His Steveness in the weekly mailout. I've often wondered what this project was, that was going revolutionise Apple's future and save it from history's dustbin. I know what it wasn't, and that was the iMac: sad old Apple watcher that I am, I know that the iMac was already well underway under Jonny Ive's tutelage during the final days of the Gil Amelio regime, so it wasn't that. Couldn't have been iTunes, either: far too early in the day.

Anyone got any ideas, however ill-informed? My money is on the Cube. I had one of them. Lovely machine, looked fantastic.

Anyone in touch?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/riots-reflect-societ...

Good God. He'll be telling us we're all in this together next. What about common sense and rubber bullets? Eh? EH?