So Radiohead.

Let's start with the facts.

Set-list:

You and Whose Army (not the best set-opener actually, everyone was all ready to go and it didn't really harnass the energy - that's one of only three slightly negative things I'm going to say)
National Anthem
2+2=5
Open Pick
15 Step
Exit Music (I nearly cried when this started. Then I nearly cried all the ( Read more... )

Does anyone want a cost-price Shins ticket for tomorrow? Think I have to revise rather than go...

Life sucks.

I'm asking here first before dot org, so if you want it let me know asap.

Things You Always Forget And Then Remember Again As Soon As You Hear Them:
The intro to We Are The Generation... by Johnny Boy is exactly the same as Just Like Honey by the Jesus and Mary Chain for at least, oh, the first 2 bars.

I'm listening to acoustic lullaby for the first time in a very long while. The sun's just gone in but it was streaming through the windows earlier - a proper summer's day. The daffodils are all out but the tree outside is still bare. These sessions remind me of Christmas '03, when I holed myself up in my room to escape the family, under some vague ( Read more... )

Ah, good old Saturday afternoons in Dorset. Slightly hazy from lunchtime wine, the sky beginning to cloud over and the overwhelming temptation to fall asleep for the rest of the afternoon. Except it's Grand National day and that means it's Pick A Horse time. I've been picking horses for the Grand National for as long as I can remember and none of ( Read more... )

Dublin was wet and cold and fantastic. I now know more about making Guinness than I ever knew I needed to know. We did the Rock 'n' Stroll tour and I laughed at the messages U2 fans had put up outside the Windmill Lane studios. "Bono is God", among others. Maybe they meant to put in 'thinks he is' and forgot. We can only hope ( Read more... )

From entertainmentwise.com

Kate Moss takes Pete Doherty back
But warns him to stay out of trouble...

Love sick Pete Doherty’s wooing of ex-girlfriend Kate Moss has worked - the supermodel’s given him a second chance.

The Babyshambles frontman wrote a love note to Moss on the window of a car as he was being driven away from a London court on ( Read more... )

This -> http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/model/Hard.html is the best time wasting device ever. Possibly. You get to fiddle with the economy and find out what the results would be! (Ok, not the best time wasting device ever, but a really really good one. If ( Read more... )

This is one of those rare public service announcements ( Read more... )

From Bush's State of the Union address.

"On September 11th, 2001, we found that problems originating in a failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away could bring murder and destruction to our country...

The rest of the world feels the same way, George.

"Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder -- and all of us must take their ( Read more... )