The best prime ministers we never had

Via Google:

1. John Smith
2. Tony Benn
3. Rab Butler
4. Denis Healey
5. Roy Jenkins
6. Hugh Gaitskell
7. Chris Patten
8. Michael Heseltine
9. David Owen
10. Neil Kinnock

The best things since sliced bread

Some suggestions via Google:

1. President Bush
2. Furry pornographic art
3. Being able to book hotel reservations online
4. Aspartame
5. Orange chicken
6. Corduroy
7. Tax-deferred investing
8. Guantanamo
9. Tiger Woods
10. Jesus
11. The lettuce leaf
12. Bob Dylan

Some Ingmar Bergman Links

1. Bergmanorama (tribute site)
   
2. Face to Face (official site)
3. Bergman at IMDB
4. Bergman at Wikipedia
5. Bergman at Wikiquote
6. BBC4 Profile of Bergman
7. Slant Magazine’s review of Winterlight (”imagine Robert Bresson directing a Buster Keaton feature and you’ll have an inkling of its brilliance”)

Songs that mention Marilyn Monroe

1. Hold On – Tom Waits
2. We Didn’t Start The Fire – Billy Joel
3. The Jean Genie – David Bowie
4. Action! Not Words – Def Leppard
5. Vogue – Madonna
6. Uncorrected Personality Traits – Robyn Hitchcock
7. From Hank to Hendrix – Neil Young
8. I Want Your Love – Transvision Vamp

List of lists of songs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of lists of songs – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eleven dead-end pages on Wikipedia

1. Bellydance superstars
2. Children of the Mist: Dwarfs in German Mythology, Fairy Tales, and Folk Legends
3. Fertilizer Soup
4. Hong Kong International Dance Conference
5. K cider
6. Magnetic shape memory
7. Proof by symmetry
8. Scottish hip-hop
9. Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
10. Unbuilt British Motorway Plans
11. Yins

Humphrey Bogart Films

Ten films I have watched:

1. They Drive by Night (1940)
2. High Sierra (1941)
3. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
4. Casablanca (1942)
5. To Have and Have Not (1944)
6. The Big Sleep (1946)
7. Dark Passage (1947)
8. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
9. Key Largo (1948)
10. In a Lonely Place (1950)

And ten films I haven’t yet watched:

1. The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
2. All Through the Night (1942)
3. Across the Pacific (1942)
4. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
5. Passage to Marseille (1944)
6. Dead Reckoning (1947)
7. The Enforcer (1951)
8. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
9. The Desperate Hours (1955)
10. The Harder They Fall (1956)

I have Dead Reckoning and The Harder They Fall in my DVD collection – I will watch soon. Also there is a new collection due out on 3 Oct 2006:

Humphrey Bogart – The Signature Collection, Vol. 2 (The Maltese Falcon Three-Disc Special Edition / Across the Pacific / Action in the North Atlantic / All Through the Night / Passage to Marseille)

10,000 tracks submitted to last.fm

I submitted my 10,000th track to last.fm this week. My current top ten artists:

1. Bob Dylan (1394 tracks)
2. The Mountain Goats (664)
3. Galaxie 500 (266)
4. Neutral Milk Hotel (253)
5. The Decemberists (201)
6. Leonard Cohen (198)
7. The Fall (180)
8. Neil Young (177)
9. The New Pornographers (163)
10. Red House Painters (153)

I can’t see the top two changing anytime soon, what with The Mountain Goats’ new album out on 21 Aug — and Bob Dylan’s the following week… Happy music days ahead…

Absolutely – One of the best comedy sketch shows ever shown on CH4

Absolutely – One of the best comedy sketch shows ever shown on CH4

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse – Critical Essays – George Orwell, Book, etext

In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse – Critical Essays – George Orwell, Book, etext