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I wasn’t the only person I know at the Breeders concert last night. Chris was there too. Let’s search the web for some reviews and let’s search blogdom for more weblogging Breeders fans:

Reviews: Village Voice: “The Breeders finally released a new album, Title TK, on May 21. The CD’s mere existence is an accomplishment.” Cleveland Free Times: “Title TK sounds like a record that could have benefited from an extra yearís wait, and from the fresh insight and creative input that the new band members might have brought with them.” Phoeniz New Tims: “When focused, the Breeders can still pump out a hook that actually sticks ó “Has anyone seen the iguana?” the Deals repeatedly intone on “Sinister Foxx.” But the rest of TK sounds absolutely shell-shocked.”

Bloggers: Slatch.com: “Friend: So I turn around at the bar and guess who’s standing next to me?
Me: Who? Friend: Kim Deal.”

In which Tom goes to see The Breeders:
I don’t go to concerts very often. When I was a teenager I was too lame, when I was in my early twenties I wanted to do it all the time but I only liked crappy indie groups (still do mostly) and so while everyone else was going to raves and stuff I went to occasional concerts by Stereolab and Julian Cope. And then I started teaching undergraduates, so I kind of stopped going. Too old. Felt ridiculous.

I went to see The Breeders tonight with Cal and had a great time. I last saw them in concert in Bristol about eight years ago and since they haven’t really released a lot since then, most of the people in the audience had got all old and saggy with me. Which was quite nice actually. All their songs are two minutes long and don’t really make much sense, but they have really nice solid bouncy drums and nice stop-start chunky guitar bits and they smoke cigarettes while playing and giggle at each other and bicker and it’s great! And they also played the theme tune to Buffy, which was really odd and then they dedicated a song in which one of the men shouted ‘We don’t care about you’ and then yelled Fuck you!. I love the Breeders.

Gestures of defiance let down by an inability to carry-through number three hundred and twenty in an ongoing series: MoMorgan.com is back.

Was I the only person in the world who saw Billy Bragg on Top of the Pops last night using long words and singing about modern art and anti-monarchism? The lyrics were full of phrases like ‘abstract notions’ and the song ended with ‘Gilbert and George are taking the piss….’ repeated about a dozen times. One of the most surreal TOTP moments of all time I think…

And now Metalinker has reached Daypop. Nice.

How cool is this – the second footman from ‘The Edwardian Country House’ only has his own website. I mean good god. All the behind the scenes gossip and stuff. But no pictures, unfortunately, of the lovely hall-boy. I should stop really. I’ll get a reputation. Update: And he’s not the only one! Kenny Skelton has one too! [Thanks to Alan Taylor for that one.]

And then the funniest thing happened. Dave Winer linked to Metalinker.

I can’t be the only person who has been watching The Edwardian Country House religiously. And I can’t be the only person for whom a great proportion of the attraction of the show has been Ken Skelton, the Hallboy.

Tonight’s episode was extraordinary and fascinating – collisions between staff and family – collisions between barely 20th and barely 21st Century life – collisions between the head of the household and the wonderful character of the astonishingly proficient, hard-working and idiosyncratic French cook. If this is a series that comes to the US, all Americans among our party should definitely invest the time…

Most wonderful piece of positive management arse I’ve heard in a long time: “Stop saying ‘but’, and start saying ‘and'”. And that’s a really dumb idea, surely? And moreover you may think it has some positive aspects and how on earth are you supposed to express when something’s a bad idea?

Other people talking about metalinker: one, two, three, four, five, six. It’s weirdly popular in Germany too.

One of the best comments (and most useful potential features) comes from Webvoice: “This script automates the “other linkers” links I manually add from time to time. However, Blogdex should be an API to make this application more compelling. The metalink wouldn’t appear if you’re the only one to have posted any given link (I hate links to emptiness,) and the number of other referrals to that link (e.g. [3]) would be more useful than just a link to the list of other links (ain’t it getting too meta to make sense?)”