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Listening to Elvis Costello's "Punch the Clock" (worth the admission just for the outstanding "Everyday I Write the Book"), but really just filling in time until I can listen to Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (1700hrs, BBC Radio 6 - this week's featured album; "Gorilla" by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band).

:confused: 'Ere Halo, call me a "wild and crazy guy" but why don't you just buy bran flakes and put things you do like in? :eek:

For my Christmas reading I'm waiting to take delivery of "The Gospel According to Jesus" by Saramago - it sounds interesting and is also (sort of) topical.

I tried Dune in my youth, but only got about 476183705/952367410 way through and gave up.

I'd like to "GO and rock and be flipped on Saturday night in the shack" with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, and the others from On the Road, then on to Doc's party with Mack and the boys, where we'd meet up with the girls from Dora's Flophouse (Cannery Row). (Although if my wife asks I've spent...

I'm a sucker for the Waterstone's 3 for 2 offer: Heretic - Bernard Cornwell In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great - Michael Wood Rubicon - Tom Holland

The Famished Road - Ben okri

h2g2 isn't really my "bag", but if anyone is a fan (and I understand lots are), you might like this; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

:) You're very welcome. They've got a few others, too:http://www.ex.ac.uk/trol/grol/index.htm

*schweck ;)

3 Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome :D See for yourself http://www.ex.ac.uk/trol/grol/jerome/3men00.htm

I've not read much horror (some Poe, Dracula, etc), but I did read The Fog when I was camping on Skye and it scared the shit out of me!

Delicatessen Lawrence of Arabia The Ladykillers (Ealing original!) Monty Python's The Life of Brian Zulu The Killing Fields The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Wicker Man It's a Wonderful Life All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 version)

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door...

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre Cannery Row - John Steinbeck If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi The Age of.... series - Eric Hobsbawm (4 vol. but one choice) A far from definitive list; ask me again tomorrow and it will have changed, no doubt.

Bloodshot, glassy, myopic, jaundiced and tired. And one is higher than the other. I hope to have something more positive to say after a good night's sleep.

Take a look at Island by Aldous Huxley; a philosophical novel set on the fictional island of Pala, where the local culture is a fusion of western science amd eastern philosophy, including elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Confucianism. I found it incredibly thought provoking, and read...

Perhaps, but Ou Be Low hoo does have a point, and it's not actually all that funny, especially if you're waiting in the taxi queue with several shopping bags. P.S. You're right to be worried about the taxi companies getting on to you: They've got some right dodgy "geezers" working for them...

Some Girls Will by Racey

Cool guy; his influence on popular music in the UK was inestimable: His "sessions" were truly unique, giving exposure to some great bands who would never have got near our radios otherwise. He'll be missed in my house. :( Peel quote: "We're not here to give people what they want, we're here...