first the official uk chart tried to shut us down for being too real and for apparently publishing the full chart, then wes butters began raining on motherfuckers like a tragedy, inviting bands to perform live with proper shit drums when we're trying to listen to the top forty, bringing to mind terrifying thoughts of some kind of live lounge chart. jesus christ wes, linkin park were invented to put a stop to this kind of thing! (i wrote that down in my special notebook but then the day after radio one broadcast a linkin park live gig and ruined them for me as well!) then the hateful and tedious mark and lard came back from their holiday, returning daytime radio one to its status of playing hardly any records between 1pm and 6pm, what the fuck! (and before 1pm we still have to contend with jo wiley kat! what song was that, jo? i can't understand you because you can't fucking string two words together.)

also, i'm losing patience with totp saturday's neverending piss stream of gareth mini-documentaries and comic relief-related so called fun. (cd:uk is still pretty much unimpeachable, cat deeley is really good at interviews, and mis-teeq were clearly working harder than they did on totp saturday to destroy the crowd, possibly relieved at not having to play celebrity fastermind.) so, i haven't been keeping up as much: local station juice fm's playlist is all banging house remixes of "beautiful" and entirely random pop classics, which is cool (they read the news over "can i get a.." by jay z!?) but it's no good for knowing what's out or who's in the charts.

this morning it's been all about the dreem teem, they've already played a somewhat unnecessary "scandalous" / "in da club" mash-up and the new big brovaz single, a clunky, musical-inspired waltz time non-banger (good to see them bringing the alleged 'nu flow' on comic relief at two in the morning!). right this very second they're playing mario's "just a friend", the only thing in 02 to match "u remind me" for catch-your-heartless-ass-off-guard radio sweetness, and finally getting released in the uk! it's all good except they are threatening to interview mj cole.