This month's list

I have accused my engineer sister of being a bona fide geek. Unfortunately, I am a closet geek, so in the time-honoured tradition of geeks everywhere, I shall be making a list. This is because I have two days off work (which accounts for my unusual good humour) and have rediscovered an interest in music and books after many months of being sick of it all. (Also because I have two sisters with blogs and am always cribbing ideas off them.)

This month I've been listening to:

1. Monster - THE AUTOMATIC. Four excitable Welshmen, one demented loon and lots of ace tunes.
2. Mardy Bum - ARCTIC MONKEYS. Aaahh, yes, it is a rather sweet, affectionate song.
3. When The Sun Goes Down - ARCTIC MONKEYS. Somehow reminds me of Sublime.
4. Wires - ATHLETE. If you don't cry at Joel Pott's account of the difficult birth of his baby girl, you've got a heart of stone!
5. Supermassive Black Hole - MUSE. Always slightly bonkers, is our Muse, but always delivers.
6. Maneater - NELLY FURTADO. I always thought it's unfortunate that Nelly's got a voice like a wailing cat because she usually knocks out some good tunes, this being one of them.
7. Valerie - THE ZUTONS.
8. Raoul - THE AUTOMATIC.
9. From Paris to Berlin - INFERNAL. Aha ha - cough- sorry, I find it immensely catchy.
10. Breakaway - KELLY CLARKSON.
11. Leaders of The Free World - ELBOW. More of the world should listen to Elbow, then you'll all be melancholy like me.
12. 11 am - INCUBUS
13. Go Or Go Ahead - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
14. Bird Guhl - ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS
15. Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet (Kissing You) - DES'REE
16. Missing - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
17. Nine 2 Five - THE ORDINARY BOYS vs LADY SOVEREIGN
18. Ride A White Horse - GOLDFRAPP
19. Crazy - GNARLS BARKLEY

If you're keen to listen to music, then check out my sis being a geek on internet radio

Radio KPIE FleaOnALeash. She broadcasts this Friday30th June at 10pm Pacific Time. I think it's 2am Greenwich Mean Time, which means I'll be at work. But have fun anyway, and I'll listen to you, Jat, when I can get the idiot program to run.

I have also watched:

1. Howl's Moving Castle - beautiful, wonderful animation, unconventional storyline, slighly weird but nice happy ending that left me satisfied.
2. Wallace & Grommit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit - gentle, English animation that actually had me laughing out loud. No knowing adult in-jokes, just smart and funny.
3. Crash - the stupidest, shallowest, ham-handed movie pretending to be intellectual that I've seen in a long time. Utter bollocks.
4. Thank You For Smoking - pretty entertaining, but with not a lot of bite considering the subject material.
5. Wimbledon - just love, love, love Paul Bettany. Even if he is very pale and very blond. Jennifer Connelly is a very lucky woman. Drat.
6. Primer - talky movie about engineers and time-travel which I'm too dumb to understand. Had my sister explain it to me, but still don't get it. I did fail A-Level Physics after all.

Never quite understood the hype of:

1. Desperate Housewives
2. Prison Break

Have lost interest in:

1. Lost - they’re just taking the piss now, aren’t they?
2. Big Brother - haven’t these people got jobs? Aren’t they bored out of their skulls by now? Why have I wasted my time on this crap again?