Some things are better than other things and other things are less than what you think they are if you think they're houses. Sometimes they're knives and forks when you're in restaurants with people who don't know who you are and if they did know who you are you'd be a wasp. She buys her nail varnish from something that hops and that's why her nail varnish smells.

Band: The Divine Comedy.

Album: Victory for the Comic Muse.

The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon and friends) have been releasing albums since the early nineties, and this latest one sounds like most of the others. You could criticise them for not changing or applaud them for sticking to what they're good at, and I'd go for the latter. They're better than being able to fix elections.

Website:

www.thedivinecomedy.com

New Zealand is down there somewhere and we're up here and I started digging that hole but then I stopped. The world is full of people who clean giants and say, "Go away."