Mellotron.

The best show you didn’t watch and now have totally missed, but I hear they’re making an American version, which probably will suck: Saxondale.

Steve Coogan (you might’ve caught 24 Hour Party People a couple of years ago?), on BBC America (purveyors of such fine fare as Life on Mars, Little Britain, and Footballers Wives, plus of course the original The Office) — he’s an ex-metal roadie (for e.g. Tull, “the Purple,” etc.) and current American muscle-car fanatic who now owns a pest-control business, lives in the burbs with his girlfriend (owner of a shop that sells T-shirts, mostly featuring graphics of popular figures smoking dope), mentors his truly space-cadet young employee, goes to anger management classes led by a total dork (court-ordered, due to his nasty divorce), faces frequent humiliation and frustration with the c**t who doles out the pest-control assignments, and is prone to name-dropping windbaggery about the good old days of his hard-partying youth — seriously, you should try to TiVo/download/borrow this thing. It’s fuckin hilarious.

Tommy Saxondale, bailing on his anger management class:

"I'm gonna leave now for two reasons. One: I don't want to lose my temper, which I think you'll agree shows some growth, and two: this clown's just let one go ... don't deny it."