There is a new double CD called New Waves (“45 original 45s from the post punk era”). I saw it advertised in the Guardian and had to look it up to see the tracklisting, partly to see how they squeezed 45 tracks onto a double CD and partly to see what was selected.

Lesson 1 – the CD carefully specifies tracks from “the post punk era”: it doesn’t say they are all what we would call post punk… Most of the tracks are what I might have expected to be called ‘new wave’ or ‘post punk’ but a few are a bit detached from that – Sparks, Buggles and Trio. Apart from that the selection is pretty good. The only thing which would stop me buying it is having half the tracks already.

I wonder if you could get away with a compilation CD which was “songs from the punk years” and then fill it with Abba, Hotel California, Genesis, Yes Sir I can Boogie, Dr Hook and so on?

Anyway, disc one, track 13 is Wheres Captain Kirk by Spizzenergi. And I gladly take this chance to mention them again to increase the chances that Spizz will find this site when he does a vanity search on Google, and get inspired to do his own blog, which would be well worth reading I reckon.

When I got on to Amazon it came up with a ‘page you made’ recommendation for something I had never heard of: a DVD called Teddy Bear Death. I can quote here the synopsis for it in full –

A group of Teddy Bears are shot, burned and roasted.

Charming! Mind you, it does sound like fun. It must have been recommended because I was looking up the, very similar, Happy Tree Friends yesterday, so full marks to Amazon’s computer as it actually drew my attention to something I would probably enjoy and might otherwiase never have heard of.

Not that Amazon is infallible. It says I ‘might like’ an official Sony Playstation 2 memory card although I do not have a playstation 2. I must have bought a game for our boy at Christmas or something like that.

Lesson 2 – Amazon has a very long memory!