Top 10 albums of the past fortnight!

1. REM - Accelerate
2. Muse - HAARP
3. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
6. Weezer - The Blue Album
7. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
8. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
9. Bernard Butler - People Move On
10. REM - Automatic For the People

The past month or so I've completely begun to understand The Blue Album. I suppose I should have 'got it' the first time around, being the perfect age and all, but somehow it didn't happen. Luckily I reckon, or else I'd never have fully fallen for Pinkerton which is now, even at 27, one of my top five/desert island albums of all time, ever.

Weezer's new one, out soon, is The Red Album. Well, self-titled. But you get what I mean.

We had our third ROM (we have one of the best acronyms in all of rock) practise on Thursday, and it went awesome, unlike our second which sucked. I've decided, though I'm yet to consult the others in an official capacity, we should all have Motley Crue names. As the songwriter, with an easily-adapted name, I'm Danny Sixx. Marty, as his name begins with M, is Marty Mars. Nathan, as the drummer, had little choice but to be Nathan Lee. No one in their right mind would want to be Vince Neil. I'm nearly fat enough, but I'm still claiming the Sixx spot. If we audition singers, and one is called Vince, or Neil, I suppose they'd get preference. If anyone called Neil, ever, has been able to sing. Cue Neils...

One week till I start my new job at TV3.

Made a new entry or two at Fighting Dantasy. I'm wondering who the first person I know will be to set themselves up at Biographicon.

I want to respond to all the morons crying "nanny state!" about a school banning birthday cakes on the Herald's website, and say something along the lines of, "This is your chance to exercise your freedom of choice and let the market take care of itself by shifting your kid to a different school," but every time I try to log in, it tells me: "403 Forbidden. Cross Site Request Forgery detected. Request aborted."

I think this is either the Herald's way of telling me the don't need my sarcastic commentary, or the universe's way of telling me I have better things to do. The realist in me is inclined to think it's the latter, the fighter in me the former, while the geek in me just thinks they should fix their freakin' website, lest it be overrun with nerds who know what they are doing.

Actually, that doesn't sound too bad. While they're at it, they should totally Rickroll the entire Your Views section.