Hopstretch

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Take the painkiller. Cycle on your bicycle. Leave all this misery behind.

Wow. That sucks a lot more than I expected.

OMG OMG OMG! Me too.

Happy Birthday!

The Joshua Tree came out at exactly the right time -- I was 17 and stuck at an all-male boarding school in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do but play rugby and take cold showers -- so that's the one that's really stuck with me. (Have also got a weird soft spot for Zooropa as it was one of the only cassettes in the fucked-up VW van that I drove around Europe with a couple of university mates in the summer of 1993. Got us from San Fermin all the way to the Oktoberfest, although Daddy did not (in fact) pay for our crashed car when we hit a goat, then a tree, in the Algarve.) Oops! Listening to Dinosaur Jr. -- Without A Sound

Thought about you today when I saw this in the paper: [emoji6]

Band of Horses -- Everything All The Time

Dum Dum Girls -- End Of Daze

Happy Birthday!

Cut Copy -- In Ghost Colours

Probably a South African, we have three distinct usages. "I'll do it now." -- I'm totally not going to do it. "I'll do it just now." -- I might do it later, if I feel like it. "I'll do it now now." -- OK, it's actually on my priority list.

I've never had a flat tire in all my years of driving. But the thought of "going naked" still makes me nervous.

You're a funny guy, Brent. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Need new tires on the X5 and thinking about taking the opportunity to finally ditch run flats, which flat out suck. (Particularly with 315 rears. Tramlining? Er, yeah a bit.) But I don't have any kind of spare, because BMW. If I just keep a 12V compressor and a couple of cans of repair goo in the car, am I still being a responsible road user?

The House of Love -- S/T

Happy birthday!

"I'm sick of these motherfucking snakes up my motherfucking nose!"

That's racist!

Nice Greg! I had ox heart tartare for lunch, which is a first for me. Served with onion jam, mustard and charred pickled onions.

On second thoughts ...

Guilty on all counts, your honor.

Andrew Bird -- Are You Serious?

And those BMW engineers know about form following function too, I can tell you!

Hate to interrupt the geopolitical discussion, but I left my BHSE on all night yesterday by accident (read, "was pissed") and it didn't burn the house down. Thanks Kevin and Justin.