I'm not sure where to start because I'm not sure as to what all is here and what I probably missed or grew impatient waiting for. The intro page is a luggage tag that when clicked opens up a new window without your browser's own navigational tool bars. From this secondary home page there are nine boxes on the left, numbers one through four across the top and a drop down menu with choices like "snif" and "orientation." Don't worry, "orientation" doesn't bring you to a site map or anything, just to another page with an inscrutable graphic and poorly color-coded links at the bottom that are nearly invisible and launch yet more Quciktime live clips. Also on the sub home page are two ill-conceived text boxes of Neil's diary and news that were last updated three and one months ago respectively.

OK, OK. Try to accentuate the positives. Finn has definitely moved beyond the standard issue artist web site that consists exclusively of pages of discography, biography and commerce with some photos thrown in for good measure. Don't expect to find any of that here. Well, except for the photos bit. The overall theme is dedicated to one's senses and beyond. The boxes I mentioned above on the home page take the user through the malleable bends in Finn's brain.

At nilfun, there is a ton of artwork on each page and a dedicated gallery of rotating photos and other non-music media is in the "see" section. "Snif" means a look at the past as scent is closely related to nostalgia. Here I found a dozen or so home-movie quality stills of the Finn boys playing, with their mum and the like through the careers of their previous bands. "Hear" takes you to a page of downloadable MP3s and a downloadable mixer so you can play engineer and create a new Neil song which you can in turn email to him if you so desire. Some of the songs folks have sent in are archived in this area. This is the only place that I saw actual file sizes listed if you wanted to download one. Also in the hear area is an interactive method to create music online with looping and triggered sounds, but this gave me trouble even after I RFTM (read the fucking memo).

Finn has taken the liberty of employing multi-media to great lengths and equal successes. I only wish I had the bandwidth to appreciate it all and there were cues for expected download times etc. There is a ton of live footage all over the place, particularly the "7 worlds" section. It's nearly impossible to escape. In the "promo" area, you can hear the first single, "the Last to Know," from his newest release One Nil, currently available in the U.S. only as an import. There are also multiple video treatments for another album cut "Wherever You Are" in the "visual response" area of the site. I particularly liked version five with the Alien Air carrier (funny, we call it United here) and the free-floating astronaut.

The objective here isn't to keep score, but at one-nil, I feel like the loser.