Because it's the 20th anniversary of the Hottest 100, Triple J are doing another Hottest 100 of all time.

But you can only vote for 10 songs. This is almost impossible for me to do, because, for anything that I like, I don't have a definite favourite, or even two or three things that I prefer above all others. I like loads of different stuff, and my favourite this week is almost certainly not going to be my favourite next week, or even tomorrow.

Nevertheless, I am trying to come up with some sort of list. I started by making a list of bands that could possibly have songs in my top ten, and without even thinking too hard, I've come up with over 30. If I start looking through all my music, that will expand exponentially. This is gonna be difficult.

Anyway, it's been a few months since I posted the list of books that I've been reading, so:

APRIL
Conjugal Rites - Paul Magrs
The Chronicles Of Blarnia - Michael Gerber
Tintin In America - Herge
Cigars Of The Pharoahs - Herge
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
The Dark Tower: The Drawing Of The Three - Stephen King
The Book Of Lost Things - John Connolly
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Napoleon - Gideon Defoe

6 of those books I read for the first time. It didn't occur to me until I was actually reading Tintin In America that I was rereading it, and that it had broken my record of 7 months of reading new books. Oh well, that's still a very long time for me to go without rereading anything!

MAY
The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands - Stephen King
Doctor Who: The Eyeless - Lance Parkin
Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone: The Romantic Movement, Rock & Roll and The End of Civilisation as We Know It - Craig Schuftan
The Blue Lotus - Herge
Dexter In The Dark - Jeff Lindsay

I didn't read very much last month, I just couldn't motivate myself to do it, even though I was reading some very good books. The Waste Lands took me two weeks to read, and Hey Nietzsche!, I started in April. BTW, I loved Hey Nietzsche!. I reccommend it very highly, but I'm no good at putting things into to words, so this will tell you about it.

Wow, that brings me very neatly back to what I was talking about before, as Craig Schuftan works on Triple J, and you can listen to podcasts of his segments here. Check out the one about My Chemical Romance and Wordsworth - it's very short, but gives you a good idea of what the book is like (but the book is much more detailed). He also made his own top ten list for the Hottest 100 of all time.