A thought and a picture. The British music chart is so ridiculously distorted that I have a hard time ever taking it seriously. Every single week, invariably the singles chart is dominated by a song that is 30 years old. Does this country really have so much interest in re-released music? I mean, the war this week was between a re-release of a remix of a Elvis Presley song, Tony Christie's showtune-esque "Is This the Road to Amaradillo?" from his greatest hits CD, and the new Snoop Dogg/JT song. Tony Christie came out on top for the 7th week in a row, making his reign the longest since 1998, when another old person, Cher, topped the charts with "Bbbbeeeliiiiieeevvveeeee." This whole spate of Elvis chart-toppers being old B-sides that aren't even very memorable just shows that while most people buy Franz Ferdinand and Green Day, every week a bunch of old people rush to the stores (or click on iTunes if they know how to use a computer) to pick up songs that were big when they were young. Of course people keep buying old music, but this whole business of rereleases constantly dominating the charts is ludicrous.

And the picture.



UPDATE: the picture didnt show up, so here is the link to some painted faces before a pagan festival. Come on, you know you are curious.

"Say Haggis!"