Haunted Antiquities

The best thing about Antiques Roadshow is not watching people pretend to be shocked when the value of their antique is revealed, nor is it watching the way they hide their disappointment when it's obviously less than their greedy little hearts had hoped. No. The best thing is watching the people in line behind the person having their antique examined. They know they're not gonna make it onto camera - the only reason they'd come really - so they make the most of their time. They over react, they act aloof and they act really really interested and yet everyone of them comes across as a nosey bugger.

I don't watch the show that much. At all, really. I caught the last ten minutes of it this evening while chowing down on my non-Sunday-Roast-pizza. It's from my short viewing that I gathered such insight. I'm so perceptive / overly cynical.

My 'excitement builds' in yesterdays blog is not simply for the new Foo's album. Oh no. Two of my new favourite bands have new albums due soon: Rogue Wave and Band of Horses. Both recent discoveries for me and both superb at their craft. Band of Horses have been blogging about their upcoming ablum for a while and always said it was going to be a spoken word album. Yawn. So when the bulleting came round about a new song being available to d/l for free I didn't get excited but checked it out anyway. Amazing. Spoken word my arse. It's called Is There A Ghost and is already topping my most played list on i-tunes and I cannot wait for the album.

In other news of great bands BrokenOrchestra had the first of what will hopefully be many three-man musical Sundays today. A lot of fun and a good start, I feel.

Still, back to the day job tomorrow. Let's all enjoy some Rogue Wave.