(Dr) Who Really Cares, Moz?

Bleurgh. Surely I cannot be the only one who detests Dr Who? It's a stupid, ridiculous programme that somehow keeps getting made and keeps getting praised. Some smug looking timelord, cheap BBC "can barely see the strings" style effects, 'aliens' that look like nothing more than actors in cheap suits and some of the worst script writing since Elderado. How is this allowed to happen??!!

I never liked it as a kid either, grew up without any real knowledge or interest in it except to know what it was and that first Knock-Knock joke everybody learns. I've even tried to 'get it' too - my little brother is a big fan and so it's always on at my Dad's house yet still... leaves me looking for somewhere to sleep or a decent storyline. Don't get me wrong: I have nothing against the sci-fi thing. I still think Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is an amazing piece of work and I still keep up to date with latest Discworld stories. But seriously, Dr Who is a complete pile of it.

Some opinions and tastes do change. I'm almost scared to admit it but lately I've started to appreciate Morrissey. Not as a person, I still think he's a tosser, but his music. I never used to see the attraction of the Smiths. I used to think that it was some stunning music that was great until old misery Moz started moaning over the top. So what changed? I haven't suddenly started to long for the 80's, don't worry. No. I was ambushed. When I got my new car I suddenly found myself driving with a cassette player instead of a cd player and not owning an cassettes (I've had a CD player in my car for the last 7 years). In a similar twist Dan found himself in a car with a CD player and a shite load of cassette comps that he didn't need and passes a couple on to me which I'm still wearing down through lack of making my own.

Armed with these tapes I drove down to Brighton for the wedding and there was one song that I really liked and rewound to listen to and turned up when it'd come around. Not knowing what it was I repeated one of the lines from it - "take people from Pittsburgh, Pensylvania but spare me" - to Dan in the hope that he'd inform me of some new and obscure artist. No, it was a track called On The Streets I Ran from the miserable bastards latest opus Ringleader of the Tormentors - a cd Ryan had offered to give me for free as he'd been gifted it somehow and had no interest. Needless to say I took him up on the offer and, annoyingly, liked it.

Dan sideswipped me again recently with a new compilation he made me. He put another Morrissey song on there - This World Is Full of Crashing Bores - that I again really liked then he gifted me the Morrissey album You Are The Quarry which again, I enjoyed. Damn it. I still think he's a tosser as a person though.