I finally listened to Radiohead's In Rainbows. All the hype and controversy - and gnashing of teeth at EMI - I just wasn't interested when it was first released. I suppose I like it. It's good, much like Hail To the Thief. It's not one of the records that I go bonkers for and listen to over and over and over again. Last record like that was Interpol (Our Love to Admire), and before that probably Arcade Fire (Neon Bible). There's also a bizarre webcast which I rather enjoyed - I love that it pokes fun at Se7en which is the stupidest loved itself and up its own rear end film I've ever seen.

I haven't spent much time listening to music in a long while. That used to be such a big part of my life, listening to new music trying to find the best, going to see bands, that's nearly all Lauren and I did for ages. I guess my enthusiasm waned when I lost my partner in crime. (Lauren, please come back to New York). But sometimes I'm in the mood so to speak and I'll go out and buy a bunch of new records. I'm also listening to Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope), Goldfrapp (Seventh Tree) and Band of Horses (Cease to Begin).

And I'm watching back to back episodes of the BBC show Life on Mars (modern day policeman gets bonk on head, wakes up in 1973 - it's AAA-mazing) and I've got hooked on the music. Early seventies rock music like Cream ,Thin Lizzy, classic Elton John and of course David Bowie. Is there a better song than Life on Mars?!