So, ripping off black American music is a prerequisite for good British pop music? Is it still legit if they're ripping off indigenous, British black people, or does it have to be Americans ('The World's Only Legitimate, Soulful Musicians and the earnest British Americanophiles who love them')?

The Jesus and Mary Chain, a band you cited as one of the primary early defining bands of this genre had an obvious and self-referenced Bo Diddley (who last I checked was black and American, not to mention awesome) influence; but why let facts get in the way of a good, convoluted thesis.

Not to mention that I don't hear much reflection of contemporary black music in Hüsker Dü, Big Black, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Butthole Surfers or the Pixies (interesting as I made find those bands myself, they're all white as white can be; Big Black's cover of "The Big Payback" notwithstanding.) Or are American themselves exempt from this requirement?

It's okay if you haven't been digging British pop music lately, but please come up with a less absurd justification, or better yet just save it.

After reading your article I still don't understand how you come down clearly on the side of plastic bottles. You're comparing the greenhouse gas emissions from 6-packs of cans to 2-liter bottles, is there any evidence that these are the most popular units of purchase for soda? Mightn't it be more accurate to compare single cans to single 20 oz. bottles? And again, with the transportation issue, do we really know in what configuration bottles and cans are being transported? Is there external cardboard case packaging that might serve to equalize the weight difference between the two? And your third strike against aluminum lies in the fact that recycled plastic sometimes becomes clothing (this after stating that only 30% of plastic is recycled versus over 50% of aluminum)?

Even taking your facts at face value (I haven't any of my own handy with which to counter them), your declaration of plastic as superior seems like arbitrary numbers-fiddling, at best.

is a bigger, better tattoo to cover it up.

Don't like that blurry Tasmanian Devil you got at the sketchy shop when you were 17 and half drunk ('I kissed the bottle, I shoulda been...', uh never-mind)? Then go out and find a real artist at a reputable shop (there are plenty around these days) to work something over top of it that really deserves to be there for the rest of your life.

The band are called Goblin, not Goblins. They didn't do any Argento soundtracks between Tenebrae (1982) and Sleepless (2001), and they haven't done the soundtrack for this new one either.

It's Claudio Simonetti (a founding member of Goblin) who's done the Mother of Tears soundtrack. He also did music for Phenomena (1986), Opera (1987), The Card Player (2004), and Argento's Masters of Horror episodes "Jenifer"(2005) and "Pelts"(2006).