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...as any fule no. Tip o' the hat to MetaFilter.

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I've no idea what prompted me to pick up an album by My Chemical Romance, since I've never listened to any of their stuff and had no idea what it was like, but damn it's good. Chunky guitars and shouty lyrics smeared with vitriol - what's not to like?

apropos

(edited to correct the quote; the one I snagged was a paraphrase for some reason)

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2.55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning techniques it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

Good old Douglas Adams; this always made me giggle. Having been on-call, I had to postpone it until about 7pm, though. I think perhaps I need a trip to the cinema to lighten my mood.

later

Well, the movie was fun, but the head's still where it was. So much for escapism. Bah.