here's another pic from a mri scan of my head & brain - this one being of a 'slice' through the middle of my head. check out the tongue muscles, the upper vertebrae, the space under my frontal lobe & between my eyes ... freaky!

the main reason i'm posting this here is so that i can then add it to my 'signature' pic in my profile ('cos this seems to be the only way to do so). i wanted to sue the other, more colourful & psychedelic pic (below) but it was over the 50kb limit ...

i always knew i'd eventually get around to figuring out how to post pics on here ... it just took until i came back to work from paternity leave, and was looking for ways to procrastinate from actually doing work! ;-D

anyhow, back to my list of fave albums once again - i'm getting there - i've narrowed it down to a list of about 16 or so and then further have a working 'top' list of about 11 or 12. that's not to say i won't think of or recall another one - although i think that if i was going to do so, and the album really warranted inclusion in my list, i'd probably have recalled it by now!? however since my post on monday i have made another addition:

* died pretty: 'doughboy hollow' (1991) ... a fantastic album by this australian band, without a bad track in my opinion. certainly this was their most commercially-oriented album to date at the time of its release and i have to say that some of their previous albums - especially 'lost' (1989) (and to a lesser extent 'every brilliant eye' [1990]) - must come very close to making the list, but i've gone for 'doughboy hollow' for its consistency & strength across the entire album (including throughout 'side 2') and also, probably on a related note, its production and (umm) 'clean yet kick-a$$' sound. the realtively mellow opening track 'doused' is brilliant as are the following 5 tracks (virtually as strong a list of 6 consecutive tracks as u'll find on any album i reckon!) and as i said, the second half holds up really well and isn't a let-down even after many, many listens. finally, a bit of trivia: i'd been quite curious about the album title and then in 1999 while in the hunter valley (north-west of sydeny, australia) i discovered that is is a creek, or more a gully (or hollow!), there - the new england highway crosses it just south of one of the larger towns (singleton i think).

so - the 4th pile of albums on my stereo, and my near-final top 10 or 12 or so albums, to follow soon-ish ...

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