No, seriously, a cartoon combine harvester, I kid you not.  What sort of ridiculous synaptic misfire is responsible for that image, you ask?  Or at least, I pretend you ask. Well here’s a needless insight into how these Friday Fives come about for you, seeing as I pretended you asked.

These things are all about finding one of those weird tangents your brain shoots off on at times, and embracing it.  So I was having a piss this morning… no, too much information.  There I was this morning, contemplating how efficient I had been with my inbox this week.  I generally have an ‘On Trial’ folder for unreviewed or undecided mp3s or albums and it can get a bit too full.  By the start of last week it was so bad it contained a second folder call ‘New’, containing all the previous week’s zip downloads and so on.

Now, you will have noticed, as did I, that that is a slippery slope, and a potentially infinite set of Russian Dolls full of new music.  So this week I systematically went through all the top level albums and either reviewed or deleted them, so yesterday I was able to unzip all the folders in ‘New’, move them to ‘On Trial’, and nip this little problem in the bud.  I still have an overflowing inbox, but I feel that it is at least back under control again, which is a relief, because I like to give everyone a fair listen rather than miss them because I have too much to listen to.

So I was standing there having a p… no, there I was contemplating this week’s efficiency and I smugly compared it to being like a combine harvester.  Ho ho, I thought to myself, more like a combine harvester wielding a giant axe.  Yeah, a combine harvester with an axe, that’s what I was like.  And the only place I could imagine seeing a combine harvester with an axe was one of those Disney films like Cars or some such, where there would probably be a big bad combine harvester (probably a thug, so not very bright) wielding and axe and using it to threaten our plucky hero, who is probably something wholesome and American like a Dodge or a Chevrolet*.

So, yes, a cartoon combine harvester dreamt up while I was hav… , that is how this week’s five was born.  And you thought it was magic, eh?  Sheesh!  So if that’s how clever the five tend to be, there’s no excuse not to delurk and chip in five frivolous answers to these questions, and then while away the afternoon bickering about them in the comments.

1. Favourite computer animated film (these can probably all be ads or music videos and stuff, why restrict ourselves).
2. Favourite hand-drawn animated film.
3. Favourite live-action version of a cartoon character.
4. Favourite hero from one of those Disney/Pixar new animations.
5. As a kid what was your favourite picture book?

This week’s five songs are from a compilation called 12″ 80s.  No I don’t really get it either, don’t worry, I’ve not suddenly tried to become cooler than I really am.

Stephen Tin Tin Duffy – Kiss Me (Mixe Plural)

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Lloyd Cole – My Bag (Dancing Mix)

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Echo & the Bunnymen – Never Stop (Discotheque)

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ABC – Tears Are Not Enough (12″ Mix)

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Kid Creole & the Coconuts – I’m a Wonderful Thing (Baby) (12″ Mix)

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*As opposed to something which actually fucking works, like a Volkswagen, but those are made in Socialist Yurp, aren’t they.  Which might be why they work in the first place.