Cobnuts

Cobnuts to you, mate

We're all supposed to be eating better. More natural. Less processed, less refined, less messed about with. What could be more natural than cobnuts. Raw. Fresh. Crack the shell. Eat the nut. As simple, unprocessed, unrefined and hopefully natural and healthy as you can imagine.

They're becoming harder and harder to come by. Costing more and more when you do find them. I think they're becoming forgotten. Like wet walnuts. Fewer and fewer have heard of them. They've heard of banana, yoghurt and passion fruit smoothies, vegetable juice cocktails. But not cobnuts (try them they're delicious) or wet walnuts (you look like a superhuman popping them open in your hands).

Centipede Hz

There was a good line in one review. There's no divide between Animal Collective fans and non-fans, or people who do and don't like their music. Rather, you either get it, or you don't. Centipede Hz, after three or four listens, isn't going to win any newbies over to getting it. It's unlike Merriweather Post Pavilion, less accessible, more different to the more run of the mill album in your collection.

This is more like seeing them live in 2010 or 2011. Songs meld with loops, noise and random radio samples between them. The album works as a whole, not as a series of songs. It's a sustained trip, is this, lad, so open up thy head and let it all in.

I am the, er, law

What would Judge Dredd do to someone smuggling an underage person into a certificate 18 film? Hopefully the 3D's not that realistic.

I liked the first film. Stalone was a good Judge Dredd, I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Stormy weather ahead

Ice is melting. The seas are going to get warmer. The Gulf Stream and the winds are going to change. More storms and freak weather for Northern Europe. That's us. The day before that news breaks, the cabinet reshuffle saw a climate change sceptic taking over the environment post.

Joseph Fritzl is the new minister for children and families.

Leaving the Atocha Station

This might have to take a back seat, as the library service email arrived today, tipping me off that Sweet Tooth was in and ready for collection. No wonder the philistines want to shut them down. We should all be reading work-related sausage-factory vocational training manuals according to them.