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Stolen from In The Congo:

1. Your favorite song with the name of a city in the title or text.

I will refrain from naming the 23 or so songs with London in the title by Moz & The Smiths and go with 23 Minutes In Brussells by Luna. Essential.

2. A song you've listened to repeatedly when you were depressed at some point in your life.

Cast No Shadow by Oasis. Bovs.

3. Ever bought an entire album just for one song and wound up disliking everything but that song? Gimme that song.

747 (We Ran Out of Time) by Kent. The rest of the album is meh.

4. A great song in a language other than English.

I'll give you a whole album! Mwng by the Super Furry Animals. Some say it's their best work. My favorite tune would probably be Gwreiddiau Dwfn / Mawrth Oer Ar Y Blaned Neifion

5. Your least favorite song on one of your favorite albums of all time.

Is It Really So Strange from Louder Than Bombs

6. A song you like by someone you find physically unattractive or otherwise repellent.

Brooklyn Zoo by the ODB

7. Your favorite song that has expletives in it that's not by Liz Phair.

A Perfect Teenhood by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

8. A song that sounds as if it's by someone British but isn't.

Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song by the Dandy Warhols

9. A song you like (possibly from your past) that took you forever to finally locate a copy of.

Straight To Hell by Drivin N' Cryin

10. A song that reminds you of spring but doesn't mention spring at all.

This Time Around by Luna

11. A song that sounds to you like being happy feels.

Coffee & TV by Blur. Am I insane or is this the best pop song in the history of the universe? Wait, don't answer that...

12. Your favorite song from a non-soundtrack compilation album.

Let Me In by the Chemical Brothers from The Trip Hop Test, Vol. 2

13. A song that reminds you of high school.

Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet

14. A song that reminds you of college.

A New England by Billy Bragg

15. A song you actually like by an artist you otherwise dislike.

In My Hands by Fuel. I keep thinking about how amazing that song would sound if Liam sung it.

16. A song by a band that features three or more female members.

Waking Up by Elastica

17. One of the earliest songs that you can remember listening to.

Celebration by Kool and The Gang

18. A song you've been mocked by friends for liking.

In college, Half A Person by The Smiths. This while my friends were rocking out to Hootie & The Blowfish

19. A really good cover version you think no one else has heard.

The Killers version of Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself fucking rules

20. A song that has helped cheer you up (or empowered you somehow) after a breakup or otherwise difficult situation.

Cast No Shadow by Oasis. A song repeat buttons were made for.

That was fun!

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Many thanks to Thighs Wide Shut for this Ali G (The Professor of Erbology) gives commencement speech at Harvard goodness.

Before his mock detainment, Ali—who, despite his sometimes dim-witted persona, is the Cambridge University-educated Sacha Baron Cohen off stage—was eager to display his own depth of knowledge. “Fings like ‘apple’ and ‘orange’ don’t start with a capital letter unless they start a sentence,” he informed the audience of hundreds. “You is the most cleverest students in America,” he said, noting later that he considers this country to be among the greatest in the world, behind Jamaica and Thailand. Waving his hands in mock-gangsta motions, the comedian enthusiastically lauded the wide variety of academic specialties at Harvard—from students who are “good at counting,” to historians who can tell “what did Lincoln give America, except for the towncar,” to English concentrators who have “memorized the entire alphabet from A to X.”

Mr. Wide Shut also points out this free Ted Leo show in DC on July 1st. Cheers.

Two people died at Bonnaroo.

Want to know why The Celtics have been hugging the bottom of the Eastern Conference for so long? Well part of it can be traced to dubious player development and horrible, horrible personnel decisions (I am looking at you Rick Pitino). Take for instance the story of Ben Wallace who tried out for the Celtics three times but never made the team. Certified basketball genius ML Carr dutifully broke the news to Wallace that if he was going to stick in the L, he would most likely have to learn some new skills and become a small forward or shooting guard(!!!!!!!). The next season the C's had a tentative contract worked out with Big Ben but then coach and GM Rick Pitino and then assistant Jim O'Brien decided that they only wanted big men that could shoot three pointers. So they kept Dwayne Schintzius and Eric Riley instead. Read those last two sentences again. Now, if you take a look at the recent list of players left unprotected for the expansion draft, you will find a number of former Celtics there like JR Bremer, Omar Cook, Tony Delk, Erick Strickland, David Wesley, Adrian Griffin, Rick Fox, Antoine Walker, Danny Fortson, Rodney Rogers and Vitaly Potapenko. Cripes!

Andre Agassi pulls out of Wimbledon.

Oasis will play two new songs at Glastonbury.

iTunes Music Store Europe will launch today but Apple is still working out the kinks with the indie labels. Prices are from 79 pence to 99 pence per song.