My party piece is being able to recognise any Bond novel just form the first two words. Although I can only do it from the words themselves, not from the title, if that makes sense.

Feel free to test me on this.

This, this and this. Putting it in a safe place is almost certainly what I’ve done. (I hope, because the alternative is worse.)

Will deffo be checking inside books as well as between them. Thanks!

Oh God, I’m so sorry to hear that.

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Does this count?

Read: have started re-reading the Bond novels, in order, mainly because I wanted some quick reading after a slow, boring trudge through my previous book.

Saw: The Boys. Brilliant. Just such a well-calibrated mix […]

I think the most egregious example I know is this, which was used in Sabres of Paradise’s Smokebelch II.

Smokebelch II is a sacred text. It’s to dance music what Gimme Shelter is to to rock music, so it comes […]

My fave bit of sampling is this…

Which was sampled to become this….

Which was then sampled to become this…

I mainly know The Distractions for the track Times Goes So Slow, which crops up on every Factory / Manchester compilation, and the fact that they featured Arthur Kadmon, who was one of the shorter-lived members of The Fall.

Yup. I’ve already virtually made a ghost list of all the albums I should have / wanted to include.

From this small sample I’m sensing that keeping a diary may be the most universal short-lived fad.

I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned lifting weights. I’ve got a set gathering dust somewhere.

“2004 – Norah Jones – Feels Like Home
2005 – Rammstein – Reise, Reise
2006 – Amy Winehouse – Back to Black”

Awesome.

Why are people standing by and filming while their stuff is being wrecked?

Brilliant! Proper LOL here at that.

Yes!

*taps watch*

Thank you! I was surprised to see that I’m the only one to choose Horses (so far).

Thanks, Sewer, for the catch, but yeah, you’re right about the overall result. I’m not sure I could be on my island without […]

Also chucking it down here on the Leicestershire-Rutland border.

I’ll take the Heaven 17 and the Lisa Left Eye Lopes album.

Is that Tooned DVD the edition featuring Lewis Hamilton or Checo Perez, do you know?