We went out to one of our favourite hang-outs, Billabong, yesterday (it being Tuesday and all) to participate in their weekly Pub Quiz. We were supposed to have been a whole bunch of people, but suddenly people had other plans and it ended up being my brother, Anders, and myself, who made up Team IMTDSINVU.

I've been to a Pub Quiz event once before so based on that I knew that you always have to go with your gut feeling when they start asking questions. That gave us the correct answers to Tiger Woods' real first name (Eldrich) and which animal is on the California state flag (a bear). Unfortunately, I overruled my brother's gut feeling on who directed A Bronx Tale (De Niro, but I said Palminteri for some reason), so that was stupid. Ultimately though the questions were either ones we knew almost instantaneously or ones where we had no idea what the answer could be. So we didn't do too well, but lived up to our expectations of at least not finishing dead last. We won't be there for next week's game as we'll be in London, but I think we'll try to get a few more people together (some of these teams had ten players) and try to do better in a couple of weeks.

Recently, Jacob asked me about what I thought of the latest Beulah record and I said that it wasn't fantastic, but that there are some good songs on it. This is basically true, but since then I've listened to it a lot and it's actually far better than I originally thought. It's definitely different from the Heartstrings album in the sense that it's more of a rock album, but once you get used to that it's actually quite good. So it has really grown on me the last week and if you've been hesitant about buying it I think you should check it out. And if you have no idea who Beulah are you really should do yourself a favour and give them a chance.

I'm now hoping that the new Clem Snide album will start growing as much on me as the Beulah one did, but I'm still not really feeling it. It's actually closer to Your Favourite Music (which is my favourite one) than The Ghost of Fashion, but for some reason it just doesn't do it for me to the extent the others have. Don't get me wrong - All Green is a great track and there are several other good tracks on it, but just hasn't blown me away yet. And I was a little disappointed to learn that the line didn't go "Summer will come/With Al Green and Sweden/iced tea", but there you go.

I started rereading Catcher in the Rye the other day and I'm really enjoying it. I read my Dad's copy ages ago, but didn't buy it for myself until recently. So now I'm reading my own copy and it's pretty much like reading it for the first time as I can barely remember the story. I don't read as much as I'd like to, so when I do crack open a book I prefer to read something new instead of revisiting old books. But there are a couple I've read twice and I'm glad I decided to read this one again as it's great. I know it has a reputation as a book read by the disenfranchised youth, but I don't think that should take anything away from the quality of the book. So if you haven't read it because it's a book read by killers and depressed teenagers I think that's a shame and that you should give it a go.