My fave blur album depends what kind of day I am having. Normally it is "Blur". "13" is good for a moody day, "Parklife" for a exciting day, "Modern life is.." for when I'm thoughtful, "The Great Escape" for when I'm upset and "Leisure" for boredom. Songs fallow in this pattern as well.

By abcde on Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 10:05 am:

I get a bit sick of them after a while if I listen too much.

By Toby on Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 11:42 am:

No matter how good something is, you can't eat filet mignon three times a day/seven days a week/365 days a year. Everyonce in awhile you need to have a hamburger. That's why I have Oasis albums.

By peter on Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 11:48 am:

Well done, that just clearly illustrated the law of diminishing marginal utility. For extra unit of something you take, the extra bit of satisfaction gets less. That's true for coke. This guy drank 6 cans of coke in a row and ended up turning a bit blue in the face after trying to deny this law.

By Lucky on Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 06:06 pm:

Ever fallen in love with someone ever fallen in love in love with someone ever fallen in love in love with someone you shouldn't've fallen in love with da da da da da STAY AWAY FROM OUR DAVE MR BUZZCOCK.

I can't decide which Blur album I'd rather listen to normally anymore. Actually I can't decide between Parklife, Leisure and The Great Escape at the moment. It might be Parklife. I dare not listen to the other 3 right now for fear of becoming depressed. Isn't I Would Walk 500 Miles by the Proclaimers funny. Aha. There is no question mark for it is a statement. When I go out...

By Toby on Thursday, March 8, 2001 - 09:08 pm:

Then you shouldn't have used the word 'isn't'?

By L on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 12:31 am:

By Joe on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 09:37 am:

That was lovely.

By ARREST ME ARREST ME on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 02:07 pm:

Yeah ain't adobe photoshop great?

By indigo on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 05:42 pm:

I watched a covers band last Saturday who were fucking funny ( they started with covers of covers e.g. Limp Bizkits Faith, Marilyn Mansons Sweet Dreams, Travis Hit Me Baby One More Time) and they ended by saying, "this is our Wonderwall" and singing the Pretenders. So Lucky, I totally agree. aaaaaah I'm 17 tomorrow!

By Toby on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 08:02 pm:

indigo, indigo indigo. . . credit where credit is due, please.

You were a gleam in your parents eye when the Eurythmics (Eurythmics, not Marilyn Manson) wrote and recorded "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)".

You were only about 3 years old when George Michael (George Michael, not Limp Bizkit) wrote and recorded "Faith".

You were 15 when Max Martin (Max Martin, not Travis) wrote and Britney Spears recorded ". . . Baby One More Time".

Sorry to be anal, but don't the kids know their music history anymore? Shocking.

PS - Orgy didn't write Blue Monday either.

By stereopop on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 08:09 pm:

Toby, quit being my new hero!

By toby is illiterate on Friday, March 9, 2001 - 08:42 pm:

erm, toby, indigo states "covers of covers". hence, she STATES HER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT that the three songs mentioned were covers. thank you.

By Duh on Saturday, March 10, 2001 - 07:25 am:

Toby is a dumbass.

By Duh - back for more. on Saturday, March 10, 2001 - 09:01 am:

Sorry 'bout that. I'm sure you arent really a dumbass, you just started getting on my nerves and I reacted in a dreadfully childish manner. Please excuse me for my outburst.

By Lucky on Saturday, March 10, 2001 - 11:33 am:

Sweet.
I'm 15. Millennium hand and shrimp. Aha.

By Toby on Saturday, March 10, 2001 - 12:46 pm:

No Duh, you were absolutely right in your initial posting. I am a Dumbass.

indigo, indigo, indigo. . . can you ever forgive me for my rashness? And for my dumbass-ness-ticity?

By Toby on Saturday, March 10, 2001 - 01:27 pm:

Oh, and indigo. . . HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

By The Occifer on Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 01:12 pm:

Ahh, the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility, Peter? Yes, I remember that one well. I had a teacher called Mr Hair who was fabulously camp (for an Economics teacher). Each week, on Fridays, we'd sit small, formative exams which he called 'exammes'. Mini-exams, if you will. Anyway, one of the questions involved giving "a real life example of how the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility worked". If my memory is currently serving me correctly, my answer was something like this:

"If you confined Mr Randy-John Cowpoke within a chastity belt for two years and then, upon release, placed him in a hay-barn with two dozen sexy, nubile females from his most lecherous dreams, eventually he (even he!!) would reach the stage where he would prefer sleep over sex. This clearly demonstrates the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility."

By nat on Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 09:55 pm:

few months ago on the local radio morning show they had some lady who invented the male chastity belt, claimed that at its removal after a month's wear, there was much-heightened sexual pleasure, which contradicts your interesting little illustration.

By The Occifer on Monday, March 12, 2001 - 07:07 pm:

It does, Nathallie? How so..?

By nat on Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 01:04 am:

well, i guess 'cos your restricted (or is it constricted? meh.), and just itchin' to get out...
maybe it's like, when your starving, and you finally get some food, it's bliss, you know? doesn't matter what kind, it just tastes so much better.

(unless your question was "how does it contradict my illustration"... but i don't think it was)

By Economics on Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 03:45 pm:

No Nat you are all wrong. Read it again, carefully. Its obvious that this fellow will have his fun (and lots of it), but the point is that even he will eventually tire of it and want to do something else. That's the law of diminishing marginal utility!

By nat on Thursday, March 15, 2001 - 10:53 pm:

alright given, i misread. i thought your point was "if you are deprived of something for a very long time you eventually learn to live without it and upon release no longer even think of it".

By TobyZ on Friday, March 16, 2001 - 12:48 pm:

Not for nuthin', but that happens too.

I used to love butter. I couldn't eat bread or potatoes or muffins or stuff like that without absolutely drenching it in butter. Then, on a health kick, I stopped using it for a month. Now I hate butter. Maybe it's a psychological aversion thing, or maybe that month was just the first time I tasted those foods without butter and found I liked them better in their purity.

Anywho. . . so nat, there is a basis for your argument too :P

By indigo on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 07:19 pm:

hiya, I'm back - havent been on for ages, i've been in luxembourg, i've been doing coursework, i've just been generally too busy to breathe!!!

Toby - of course I forgive you! and thanks for the happy birthday! i had a fucking funny driving lesson yesterday - first lesson ever and i end up in fifth gear on a dual carriage way doing 49 mph, convinced im going to run someone over! anyway, onto diminishing whateveritis... terry pratchett books are definitely an example

By TobyZ on Thursday, March 22, 2001 - 07:41 pm:

Welcome back. Who even knew that people went to Luxembourg? You have to admire them, as small as they are, for hanging in there (And Kudos to Andorra too).

Is Pratchett the one who writes those serial killer books or the ones about the little mice people from the middle ages who wear all those cute little outfits and brandish swords? I always forget. And I've never read one of those books as they seem to be about little mice people from the middle ages who wear all those cute little outfits and brandish swords.

By Lucky on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 06:44 am:

Mice people...?

Pratchett books are hilarious. I've only read about four myself and by eck they're fanfrickintabulous, though I'd much rather listen to music with rocks in.

By indigo on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 05:36 pm:

tobyz, that message makes me a little concerned about your state of mind.....

Luxembourg was great ... no, I'm lying, it was dull, it's a small, flat, middle european country that could be anywhere else in the middle of Europe apart from the fact everyone speaks 4 languages, is pretty rich and is very polite.
I had a nice time though - it was my grandemaman's 70th birthday, and i got to see my little Luxembourg cousin (4 years old, speaks 5 languages better than me, has the sweetest accent!) and drink framboises - a lethal raspberry thing thats 43%.

anyway.... i only mentioned pratchett cos lucky said "millennium hand and shrimp". I'm one of those people who read really fast, so I'm always reading series of science fiction/fantasy - most are absolute drivel, but they never seem to end do they? anyway, pratchetts really funny (especially soul music and carpe jugulum) but I have now got to the point where if I open one of the books I know what bloody lline comes next. I'm going to have to find something else to read!

By TobyZ on Friday, March 23, 2001 - 07:50 pm:

Oh indigo, take heed because there is a whole series of books out there where little mice people walk and talk and dress like the Three Muskateers in full regalia just like human beings from some 15th Century like parallel universe or Planet of the Mice. I swear it.

And if you'd like a series to maybe put you off reading altogether, take a crack at Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. The first book was nearly 500 pages of the 'protagonist' wishing he were dead almost as much as the reader wishes they were dead.

Good series though? Robin Hobb's Assassin Series is brilliant. And I loved Weis and Hickman's Death Gate Cycle.

Or email me for an endless barrage of good books to read.