alexknibb

Just coming back to SU after quite an absence, just checking I can remember how the bollocks this all works. :)

I've taken to using snippets of song lyrics on Google image search as my Facebook profile pick, and this was from "Wolf At The Door" by the fantastic Radiohead. Great image.

This article contains a No Shit, Do You Think? section.

The article could be improved by not stating the blatantly obvious immediately beneath the title of the Trivia section every time one occurs.

OK, I'm going to save you the trouble of having to read this nonsense.

Harry dies in the last chapter.

There. No need to thank me.




How does he die? Weirdly, Hermione stabs him in the eye socket with a wand because he tried to touch her "lady parts".

For those of you not in the know, Virtual Console is a feature on the Nintendo Wii which allows you to download classic games from consoles such as the Megadrive/Genesis or SNES/Super Famicom.

This article details the games that the site owners hope will never appear on the VC, including the rather fantastic sounding Superman 64:

"You're the greatest hero of them all. You can do anything. So what's the game about? Fighting villains and saving lives? Battling against epic odds to prevent the very destruction of humanity? Or flying through rings, in the fog, to get points? If you went with "rings" then you're right, which must mean you've played this pile of filth, for which I'm so very very sorry."

Your complete 'suppercar' resource site. Or, as we call them in the UK, 'teacars'.




I know they're annoying, but it's probably worth listening to your spell-checker at least once in a while. Especially on your blog title. :D

I wanted to draw attention to perhaps one of the finest British rock albums ever committed to record.

Yes, the Stereophonics quickly became the rock equivalent of Phil Collins for a while after their second album, but this is where it all started.

Many great albums are formed as a product of their geography and economics as much as their songs. Blur's Parklife captured east-end London at the start of the 90's, and Word Gets Around by the Stereophonics did exactly the same thing for, well, Cwmaman.

I was going to write a comprehensive review of why I love this album, but Amazon comes close enough to allow me a bit of a laziness.

All I'll say is, if you check them out, listen to Local Boy In The Photograph or A Thousand Trees and truly listen to them. The lyrics are some of the most moving rock can muster.




After the release of Word Gets Around, the Stereophonics blistering debut album, word did, indeed, get around, and rightly so. Firm adherents to the philosophy of "write what you know", Kelly Jones escaped the rural Welsh village of his upbringing and unleashed his remarkable songwriting talent on a world outside the valleys. The album title encapsulates its content perfectly--canny small-town observations rooted in real-life experience and drama. The setting is so insular that the rumours, gossip and stories have nothing to do but buzz round from lip to lip, reverberating off the surrounding mountains. Whereas contemporaries such as Super Furry Animals or Oasis may have exuded a more escapist vibe in their early songs, Jones immerses himself in the everyday events of small-town life and admirably demonstrates an unconditional love for the place he grew up.

Possessing an ability to say so much with so few words, his songs are as emotive as they are mosh-inducing, nowhere more aptly demonstrated than in "Local Boy in the Photograph"'s "He'll always be / Twenty-three / Yet the train runs on and on / Past the place they found his clothing," delivered with the kind of rusty-hacksaw vocal that belongs to Satan himself. Balancing this seriousness is a fine line in subtle humour, as displayed on the customer-service frustrations of "More Life in a Tramp's Vest".

However, the closing salvo of "Billy Davey's Daughter" (a song based on a story that, after its release, turned out to be nothing more than a rumour, thus perfectly capturing the very essence of the album) is a wonderful acoustic outro to a solid rock record. The Stereophonics have never bettered this, and it's their cross to bear that they probably never will. --Ben Johncock

I passed a timber yard yesterday that was advertising:

"SHELVING NOW IN STOCK".

I wonder how they store it...