Now here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice

[venta]

Oh that explains it. I've been struggling for some time to work out why I'd heard of Benedict Cumberbatch (surely the most unwieldy name in showbiz) prior to his playing Sherlock. IMDB didn't really offer any clues. Anyway, it turns out he played the rather inept Captain Martin Crief in Cabin Pressure

Cabin Pressure is a II. When I was regularly commuting to work by car my commute often involved being in the car during the thirty minutes between 1830 and 1900, so I often caught the half six comedy slot.

Grade I programmes in the comedy slot include The News Quiz, The Now Show, Old Harry's Game, or anything featuring either Mark Steel or Jeremy Hardy. They're the shows where you make sure you leave work on time so you'll definitely hear them.

Grade II programmes are the sort you listen to if you happen to be in the car. This covers a wide range of things - basically everything not I or III - and typically includes The Museum of Everything, Chain Reaction, The Party Party or anything featuring either Giles Wemmbley-Hogg or Shappi Khorsandi.

Grade III programmes are the ones where the instant they are announced you have to lunge for the off button. Severe cases require the operation of said off button to take precedence over driving safely. Grade IIIs include Count Arthur Strong, Rudy's Rare Records and various other sitcoms too dreary to recall.

Special cases of Grade III are The Archers and anything featuring Chris Moyles, though they feature in a different timeslot and on a different station, respectively.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

The Conor Oberst really isn't down to my fabulous musical taste, but being in the right place at the right time ;) I recently went to one of the gigs Wichita records organised to celebrate their 10th birthday - I went to see Young Legionnaire, but all comers got a surprisingly high-quality goodie bag from Wichita.

It had three full-length albums in it (Conor Oberst, Peter Björn and John, and Euros Childs) and all are actually really rather good.

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Still don't understand why you write software instead of being a music journo...

[venta.livejournal.com]

If I wrote about music for my job, I doubt I'd write software in my spare time. And since I do actually enjoy both, I figure I have the best of both at present.

Also, getting people to pay you to be a music journalist is quite tricky. I have made occasional forays into doing it in various amateur ways, with quite staggering lack of success :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I'm like this re: motorcycle journalism.

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

well, music is nearly always accidentally stumbled upon, the fact that you found it worth listening to is a good enough indication of taste for me :-)