pass my degree in a month's time, Hepworth and Ellen better watch out...I'm warning youse!

Tried it. Hated it. Loved NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues but, in the words of any one of the numerous characters from The Wire, this was a piece of motherf**king, dogsh*t, p*ss, wa*k. Sorry.

My husband, however, blames the Word for the amount of money I spend on music, and for the amount of time I spend on here...

I dashed out to purchase the Rilo Kiley CD everyone seemed to be getting terribly, terribly excited about. I tried to get to like it. Several times. But had, eventually, to admit defeat and go back to enjoying the writing and ignoring the reccommendations.

My thoughts regarding rock journalists remain unaltered.

I also blame Word for my faint guilt at not having paid any attention at all to The Wire.

..ever, ever, ever, ever..buy anything solely on a music writer's recommendation, especially when they do it en masse.
I speak as someone who bought (in youinger, more impressionable days) oil-fields worth of absolute dross purely on the recommendation of a Kent or a Shaar Murray, whilst ignoring perfectly brilliant stuff, just because they hated it.

because I haven't been able to get into The Wire (ground to a halt midway through series two), Fleet Foxes or Midlake. What's wrong with me?

and have got a rash of new music spreading all over me.

I could not wait to throw myself into the wonders of RT's output after reading so many encomia on this here site. The word 'disappointing' fails to do it justice. I guess it's just not my thing.

bought the box set watched about 3 or 4 episodes and gave up, greatest television series ever I think not

- the small but growing pile of vintage synth equipment that hasn't been sufficiently tinkered with.

- the half-written book which is progressing slower than it should

- the 45 year-old Land-Rover that hasn't been serviced for too long

- the newly acquired garden table that I'm supposed to be dealing with today

- anything else I haven't got round to doing!

By LOLling (as I believe the young folk call it) at the podcast

Did our salesman visit your home and make you buy the Fleet Foxes? More likely that you succumbed to the dangerous temptation to like something because it appeared that everyone else was liking it. You should have asked me. I think they're a bit insipid.

Me too. Someone lent a copy of the first series recently. They keep asking what I think of it. I can't keep fobbing them off. At some point I will have to confess, I saw the first three or four and literally fell asleep halfway through two of them...better than Horlicks. I gave up at this point.

Or maybe - can anyone give me some spoilers to make me sound knowledgeable when I return the box set?

causing the marital argument that will inevitably happen when my FPO finds out what FPO stands for.