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    Dashboard! This Week:  Lightning Round, Holiday Plans It's been a busy few weeks, in part because of the impending arrival of our annual holiday, this year a two week trip to Australia.  I'm bad at getting excited for holidays because I generally spend so much time mentally processing the things that need to be done before we go away that I can't really relax until I am through airport security and it starts to feel real.  What this has meant though is I have been listening to albums at a far faster pace than I've been able to find time to sit down and write about them, so I'm working at a significant deficit at the moment.  In an effort to go on holiday with as close to my desk clear as possible, my plan is to get all the outstanding albums documented in this wrap up.  In order to make it so it doesn't take forty hours to write, I am limiting myself to 50 words per album, in the hopes that cuts the core of what I want to say about each of them. Fi...

Dashboard! CW: Mental Health, like, for real It's 2004, and I'm laying in the bath.  It's where I've spent most of the evenings that week;  not for cleanliness reasons - it's winter, and my small, cramped flat is freezing cold.  My electricity in this place is fed by coins, coins which last a vanishingly small amount of time to fire the electric radiators enough to keep the temperature up.  And I'm broke, flat broke, negative cash balance broke.  There are no more coins to be had, not for days.  But my water, my hot water, that's fed from the building central heating, and that's a bill which is part of my monthly rent, so that is already paid.  The bathroom is small, and with the door closed and a towel shoved against the bottom of the door jamb, it doesn't bleed too much heat.  So I come back from the job I hate, eat as basic a meal as I can (tinned, bulk, best not to thing about it) and I run a hot bath.  I lay in the bath for hours, with a...