Some DVDs to watch

At one movie a week, how can I ever get through all these? I demand a moratorium on new films until I catch up.

The lure of gold

A US company pays bribes in Indonesia as it despoils the environment. Why is this not on the TV news? Why is this not in the business pages?

New York Times critic's movies of the year

Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott, Stephen Holden.

Old things that I played most in 2005

Here are the most played tracks I added to iTunes in 2005 that were relased in previous years.

Track	Artist	Source
Work Is A Four Letter Word	Cilla Black	Dream Babes, Vol. 2: Reflections
exterminate	Doctor Who
Millionaire Sweeper	Kenickie	At The Club
If This World Were Mine	Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell	The Best Of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: The Millenium Collection
Talulah Gosh	Talulah Gosh	Little Hits
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding	Brinsley Schwarz	(BBC version)
Grey Will Fade	Charlotte Hatherley	Mojo: U2 Jukebox
I Want You To Want Me [live]	Cheap Trick	Sex, America, Cheap Trick (Disc 2)
The Back Of Love	Echo And The Bunnymen	Songs To Learn & Sing
Seven Seas	Echo And The Bunnymen	Songs To Learn & Sing
Get Up And Use Me	Fire Engines	(from Vinyl 45)
Maritime	ISIS	Oceanic
Just What I Always Wanted	Mari Wilson	Just What I Always Wanted
Nine Times	The Moments	A Treasury Of Northern Soul
Bomber	Motörhead	Bomber
Don't Look Back in Anger	Oasis	(What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Pretty In Pink	The Psychedelic Furs	All Of This And Nothing

2005 releases that were most played in 2005

iTunes lost my play counts in May, but here are the tracks released in 2005 that I played the most.

Track	Artist	Source
We Belong Together	Mariah Carey	The Emancipation Of Mimi
Stay The Night	Mariah Carey	The Emancipation Of Mimi
I Can See For Miles	Petra Haden	Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
The Fox	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
Fake Tales Of San Francisco	Arctic Monkeys	Beneath the boardwalk
A Certain Romance	Arctic Monkeys	Beneath the boardwalk
Comfortably Numb	Dar Williams and Ani DiFranco	My Better Self
Biology	Girls Aloud	Chemistry
Back To The Basics	Kanye West	Late Registration
Cant Stop	Missy Elliott	The Cookbook
What's Mine Is Yours	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
Jumpers	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
Modern Girl	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
Rollercoaster	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
I Want You Back (Z-Trip Remix)	The Jackson 5	Motown Remixed
You're Beautiful	James Blunt	Back to Bedlam
Pi	Kate Bush	Aerial: A Sea of Honey
Rough Justice	Rolling Stones	A Bigger Bang
Wilderness	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods
Night Light	Sleater-Kinney	The Woods

Why Mourinho is a winner

Great article in the London Review of Books about football managers. Jose Mourinho has two big assets. Firstly he went to Chelsea when there was a good upside potential. Secondly he is astonishingly good-looking.

What he has in common with Clough and Shankly is that the players appear desperate to do whatever it takes to win his approval, like schoolgirls fighting for an approving glance from their favourite teacher. Barclay turns to Desmond Morris to explain what is going on here, citing the Chelsea players’ body language as evidence that some profound human forces are at work – not just ‘respect’, not just ‘camaraderie’, but something like ‘love’. This may be overstating it. Mourinho, as well as being very handsome, is always nicely turned out, something that almost all modern professionals take extremely seriously. Ryan Giggs, for example, put the extraordinary impact of Eric Cantona on Manchester United down to the fact that not only was he a gifted player who trained hard, but also that his idiosyncratic, classically French wardrobe put the rest of the team to shame. In Giggs’s words, as a dresser Cantona was simply in a ‘different class’.

Virgin America

How far can the Virgin brand be stretched? How can it be that a bad experience with Virgin trains doesn't take the sheen off of other Virgin brands? Still I am impressed that this new airline will be based at SFO. If it really is going to fly to New York then it will be directly competing with JetBlue whch flies out of Oakland.

How to care for a cast iron frying pan

Skillet is American for frying pan.

Speculative Science

Who can spend 450 million dollars on projects that probably won't succeed? Bill Gates can.

Another moving 7/7 article

Good luck to these brave people.