Our picks for Friday 20 November, the first in a weekly series of random recommendations.

1 How tempting is a Spanish festival headlined by both Pavement and the Pixies? They've been announced as co-headliners of Primavera Sound 2010. If we’re going to backslide on all our promises to ourselves about paying money for mass nostalgic bray-fests no spiritually better than an 80s package tour featuring Dollar and Limahl - if we’re going to do that, it might as well be in Barcelona in the summer.

2 Spiritualized Electric Mainline - The Slide Song. We’re fully expecting to regret everything we do tonight, so tomorrow we’ll be using Jason Pierce's high watermark to nurse ourselves through. Apart from the couple of noisy songs, might skip those.

3 It's hard to say who is the better out of Giles and Victoria Coren. They're both deeply attractive. They're both deeply successful in their chosen fields, eating and gambling respectively, which are not such bad fields to have chosen. They both tweet responsibly and amusingly. But Vic has edged ahead in our affections for bringing to our attention our catchphrase of the year in the sentence of the year:

“The clothing, language and lifestyle of poker is, naturally, subject to fashion. Giant rhinestone hats give way to hoodies. The Wynn becomes more desirable than the Bellagio. ‘I got screwed in the comp’ becomes ‘lol donkaments’.”

Lol donkaments. Catch up, Giles. Do another telly show where you eat loudly and say witty things while dressed silly.

4 Beyoncé's Little Sister Who Is Sick Of Being Called Beyoncé's Little Sister Solange tweeted a couple of weeks ago about covering Dirty Projectors’ Stillness Is The Move. How did this happen? How bloody exciting is that?

5 David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries, about DB's trips around the world with his fold-up bicycle, exploring the cities he visits. It's great, and as it's written somewhere near the style of his staccato lyrics, you can read it and make up Talking Heads songs in your head as you go along.