She doesn't care about business, does she? She's so noncommercial.

Oh hang on, she did it after saying yes to the NFL and performing to hundreds of millions with Madonna during the Super Bowl. Wonder how much she got paid.

Still, she stuck it to them,eh? What a rebel.

Can't help feeling that we may be over the crest of the Facebook love-in. In fact, I get the feeling that Mark Zuckerberg is just about to seize the position previously occupied by the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: the internet's favourite hate figure.

The IPO is on the horizon and, clearly, it won't need much massaging to be a big bang, but I still think $100 billion is an overvaluation. But this seems to be traditional for internet-based stock. More interestingly, FB has started fumbling the ball lately, what with the arguments over things like timelines and privacy settings. I definitely sense that some disquiet on how much data FB has on individuals is beginning to emerge: David Blunkett recently advised aspiring young politicians not to have FB accounts due to the possibility of embarrassing future news stories.

I admit I have an account - which I find useful for keeping in touch with a whole bunch of people - but what is the attraction of all the other activities? From what I can see, all this photo uploading often seems to drift into ego-massage.

You know what? I wouldn't be surprised if the publicity around the IPO and its financial consequences leads to a Sunny-D moment in the public psyche, where FB goes from being The Social Network to the Bad Corporation run by a billionaire Big Brother in sneakers.

So, what price that FB is this year's MySpace or Netscape?

Metallica:

Kirk Hammett's really changed his look too.

It is Friday...

I guess if you are scrobbling to Last Fm you must be a Proper Music fan. That's why I find their global chart of the most played artistes of 2011 so fascinating:

http://www.last.fm/bestof/2011/artists?limit=100

Considering our population, UK artistes are pretty successful aren't they?

Also very interesting to see how events in 2011 affected scrobbling trends:

http://www.last.fm/bestof/2011/yearinmusic

Lana del Ray is now kicking up a storm in the States, but not the way she wanted to:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/lana-del-rey-snl_n_1207333.html

Is she THAT bad:

You can keep your Gold Stainless Nails and the Bleakness of Megadon, my favourite pretentious lyrics come from those good old acid-addled folksters, The Incredible String Band:

Prometheus the problem child,
still juggling with his brains
Gives his limping leopard's visions
to the miser in his veins.
Within the ruined factories the normal soul insane
As he sets the sky beneath his heel
And learns away the pain.

Brilliant! I genuinely love it.

Anyone got better suggestions?

I suspect this post is probably of more selective appeal, but I have rediscovered Prefab Sprout recently and I can't make up my mind which of these two is their best album. Steve McQueen is a consistent, quality album packed full of perfect pop like this:

However, while the sort-of-concept-album Jordan The Comback is a bit rambling, it does have a wide cast of characters including Elvis, God and - on this track - Jenny Agutter:

In the end, I think Jordan may just shade it. Anyone else got an opinion?

exactly one year and 2 days ago. No one told me. Do you know he played on Baker Street?

without using proxies or any fancy browser tricks:

http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/shows/featured/the-daily-show

End of public Information Announcement.

but apparently Alan Carr is doing it now. Bloosy hell it is a long time since i switched over due to sleaziness. But then again i am probably not the demographic....

that's 2001- 2011. The top 3 is not really a surprise and you'll probably think of them after two to three minutes of thinking, but I bet you will be pressed to name four and five:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16372712

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16342332

It must have been a stinker of a family Xmas to produce that effect.

Heads up. This may be entertaining: 11.30 on R4, Alexi Sayle goes through the HJH's festive messages to their fan club. Should be on iplayer for the week at least.

Inspired by a school visit from a music instrument maker, my 12 year old daughter made her Christmas present for me.

She spent a lot of time on the sound board:

What do you think of it?

10 mins to go. I am bringing the kids pressies in from the outhouse. A gammon has been cooked and left to cool as a cold cut. My mum's up to stay with us, so it'll be five for a free range Kelly bronze with all the trimmings and a very nice bottle of Barolo and/or Alsatian Gewürztraminer - we'll aim for three to four. The only thing we all be guaranteed to watch will be Dr Who.

what about you this year?