OK, I'm editing another 30-page chapter of this accreditation report. Memo to big boss: Passive voice annoys me to no end in formal writing, so PLEASE STOP USING IT EVERY OTHER SENTENCE.

All this to say that I've turned MY iPod.

• Cure - "Caterpillar"
• Cowboy Junkies - "A Few Simple Words"
• Neko Case - "Whip The Blankets"
• Aimee Mann - "Driving Sideways"
• Neutral Milk Hotel - "Two Headed Boy Part 2"
• The Postal Service - "The District Sleeps Alone"
• Pearl Jam - "Let My Love Open The Door"
• Richard Thompson - "Twisted"
• Daniel Lanois - "Power of One"
• The Beautiful South - "Dumb"

I'm pretty sure there's some Neko Case and Postal Service on here, too, and I've already played a few NMH and Richard T songs.

The last few here were:

• Schoolly D - Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme
• John Cale - Antartica Starts Here
• Buffy - "The Mustard"
• Troggs - "With A Girl Like You"
• Cramps - "Human Fly"
• Richard & Linda Thompson - "I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight (live)"
• The Fiery Furnaces - "We Got Back The Plague (Single Version)"
• REM - "We Walk"
• Wanda Jackson - "Fujiyama Mama"
• The Magnetic Fields - "The One You Really Love"
• Mark Kozelek - "Love At First Feel"
• The Clean - "Trapped In Amber"
• John Cale - "Emily"
• Bjork - "Human Behavior"
• Sonics - "Have Love Will Travel"
• Magnetic Fields - "I Don't Really Love You Anymore"
• Magnetic Fields - "My Only Friend"
• Etta James - "All The Way Down"
• King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
• Mahalia Jackson - "Didn't It Rain"

Cramps - "Human Fly"

Richard & Linda Thompson - "I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight (live)"

How appropriate: RT's first solo album, & the one immediately preceding Bright Lights, was Henry the Human Fly.

Corwood, the email didn't bounce back, so I guess it got there.

FEMA Rap. For kidz. But I like it, too.

That was indeed an appropriate transition from the Cramps to Richard & Linda T. And I did get your email.

I hate to disagree with hec, but Smell of Female is the one Cramps record you should buy - "Live from the Peppermint Lounge!". It's up there with Weld, Rank and Live at San Quentin in the history of live albums.

I haven't watched much Deadwood, both cos Penny hates Westerns and cos I just can't get my head round the reinvention of McShane. Did Lovejoy ever show in the States? It was huge at the turn of the '90s, the BBC's top cosy Sunday night drama, with McShane as a lovable rogue antiques dealer. I can't think of an exact equivalent, but it's on a par with...Bill Cosby turning up as a foulmouthed killer.

Here's a High Hat idea: The Wire and Kanye West:selfconsciousness, the twin pressures of the street and academia, preppie thugs, crack dealing as social protest...

I haven't watched much Deadwood, both cos Penny hates Westerns and cos I just can't get my head round the reinvention of McShane. Did Lovejoy ever show in the States? It was huge at the turn of the '90s, the BBC's top cosy Sunday night drama, with McShane as a lovable rogue antiques dealer. I can't think of an exact equivalent, but it's on a par with...Bill Cosby turning up as a foulmouthed killer.

I enjoyed Lovejoy quite a lot, but Deadwood is a real tour de force with McShane at the centre of things like a big malevolent spider. It's wonderful. And, uh, the music over the closing credits is usually appropos and interesting. (whew)

I haven't watched much Deadwood, both cos Penny hates Westerns and cos I just can't get my head round the reinvention of McShane. Did Lovejoy ever show in the States? It was huge at the turn of the '90s, the BBC's top cosy Sunday night drama, with McShane as a lovable rogue antiques dealer.

Huh, that used to show over here on A&E, before it devolved to the war channel. MST3K had a field day with a bad American made for TV movie with McShane as the bad guy, who they kept referring to as "Lovejoy".

I can't think of an exact equivalent, but it's on a par with...Bill Cosby turning up as a foulmouthed killer.

SEXY BEAST must have been quite the head turner, too, what with both McShane and Ben Kingsley in that kind of role, and McShane seducing James Fox at one point.

Ray Davies recalls getting shot in New Orleans: [link]