But what would you do with it? I mean, it looks more like you'd use it to bop naughty minions on the head.

Look, it's not like I've ever TRIED to conceal my clever plans. It's just no one ever believes I'll actually do that stuff. Until it's too late, muah-ha-ha-ha!

My only shame is Rod Stewart. It is a deep and lingering shame. I still enjoy everything else I ever loved.

My musical tastes are much broader and louder than they were in high school when I was a slave to lyrics (and couldn't stand a song with even one lame one) and I thought electric guitars were what you put up with when acoustic guitars were just too soft. I had no love of noise. I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Early Rod Stewart is AWESOME

I will never not love "Maggie Mae."

I will never not love "Maggie Mae."

We used to listen to that in the car when I was a kid, on one of his albums that got played on long journeys. My mother liked to deconstruct the lyrics:

I'll get on back to school, one of these days... "Ah, that's what you should have done, Rod. You wouldn't have made all this great music, but you would have been well-educated."

As Perkins notes, early Rod is great stuff.

Every Picture Tells A Story is a stone classic: "Mandolin Wind," "Reason to Believe," "I'm Losing You," the title track.

All those first four Mercury albums are loaded with great tracks: "You Wear it Well," "The First Cut is the Deepest," "Gasoline Alley."

And don't forget the stuff he did with The Faces.

New British postage stamps!!! [link]

New British postage stamps!!!

Nice! Though that choice for a Pink Floyd album is odd.

Seems like Coldplay should have a DVD coming out of the sleeve too.

Love the stamps! Blur made it into the collection. Cool.