Apologies for the recent lack of decent updates: blame work being busy (training newbies to be surly and contemptuous, it's all good), blame my sinuses, blame the local internet caff closing for far too long over Christmas. Will try to get something half-decent up over the weekend.

I have decided that even though I can't really afford it, I'll never really forgive myself if I don't attend All Tomorrow's Parties 2004. Just check out that line-up: Le Tigre, Tindersticks, Cat Power, Erase Errata, Har Mar Superstar - and those are just the ones I already know I like, there are many I'm not familiar with whom I'd like to check out (primarily Black Dice).

Also, you should go read an entirely solid, righteous rebuttal to Christopher Hitchens' sickening and reactionary supposedly "left-wing" pro-war rhetoric here at Antipopper.