![]() ![]() and here we should probably insert aīecause there on the final page was Captain America. Obviously I had to flip to the last page to see what he was on about. He said there was something a bit strange about the comic, in particular the ending, and that Marvel seem to have got slightly out of whack with their continuity. This post was sparked by something the guy behind the counter at the comic shop said this week when I bought New Avengers Annual #3. Well I must say, for someone who's purportedly not that interested in comics anymore, I've got rather a lot to say about them at the moment. And with new albums due in January from Good Shoes and These New Puritans, there's still cool stuff around. And a few bands have piqued my interest: Exlovers, Everything Everything. ![]() There have been some ace albums though: Official Secrets Act, Maccabees, Horrors, Johnny Foreigner, Fanfarlo. But this year it's been largely subsumed by electropop, so for me, pickin's were slim. ![]() And while guitarry artrock also isn't the most original of music forms, at least I wasn't really old enough to appreciate it first time round (i.e., post-punk/new wave), so artrock sounded fresh to me. Which is fine – I got nothing against electropop it's just I sort of did that in the 1990s (and the 1980s). I tend to go for the indie side of things, and indieworld went electropop in a big way in '09. But truth be told, I've not been listening to as much new music this year as I have previously. Blog much about music, mostly 'cos I spent a good seven or eight years writing about music professionally and doubt I've got anything interesting or original to say about it anymore (not that I ever really did). ![]()
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